The aqua-blue swimming pool is an icon of suburbia, right alongside traffic-snarled roads and bright-green front lawns. But in an era when even the White House is planting a food garden, the swimming ...

Natural pools are the ultimate in backyard design and they are seriously in demand at the moment. Offering something a little different to the standard swimming pool, they bring a calming quality with ...

If you’ve spent time in the Hudson Valley in summer, chances are you have a friend who knows a “secret” swimming hole — a catch-all term for the natural swimming pools, waterfalls, creek banks, and ...

As small aquatic habitats disappear at an alarming rate, private garden ponds may help compensate for the loss of natural ...

Often beautiful in theory, many ponds end up as stagnant corners of the garden that don’t quite earn their keep. But what if you could swap your unloved water feature for something a little more ...

Growing up playing in the frigid ponds of Wisconsin, Rex Boggs became used to sharing a pool with fish, frogs and egrets. For him, it was the way swimming ought to be. So when he and his wife Katy ...

MAUREPAS, La. — Why travel to a beach when you can have one in your own backyard? That’s the idea behind this Louisiana company about 50 miles northwest of New Orleans. Zydeco Construction specializes ...