9810 Red Sky Drive, Madison, WI 

Rain garden collects about 80% of the lots rain water.  Water is filtered in the rain garden and then pumped into the pond. 

Step out the back door onto a flag stone patio which takes you to the edge of a 20 by 20+ foot pond designed and installed by The Pond Professors.   Feed the colorful Japanese Koi, who will eat right out of your hand, or step into the crystal clear water and let them nibble around your feet.  Follow the flag stone trail up the grade to a small foot bridge which crosses one of two 35 foot long streams which both empty into the pond, part of the system which continuously aerates and filters it.  With the look of a natural spring, water bubbles up, supplying these streams, five feet above the grade of the pond.  The water then rushes and cascades down several mini-water falls, the stream on the right having one large waterfall.  Take a seat on the bench, where you find yourself on an island of serenity between the two streams.  It is a garden island with many blooming plants and two trees.  Rest even more content in that the special rain garden built onto the side of this magnificent feature will collect any rain run off from your yard, and slowly add it to, and ecologically process this water, as part of the eco-system of your pond.

Look up, to a magnificent view of the exposed rear of your home.  The master bed room, the living room, and the entertaining room are all directly overlooking the streams and the pond.    The streams are designed to best be heard from these windows as well, so open your master bedroom window on a cool summer night, and let the sound of the streams sing you to sleep.

The Pond Professors will be at our Parade Home on the weekends showing people how to feed the fish and answering questions.  Feeding the foot long Japaneese Koi is exciting, and they will eat out of your hand.   The pond is the first in the Midwest, actually the first outside of California, to use a new underwater fiber optic lighting system.  This causes the pond to glow at night into different colors.

Be sure to see this at the Parade of Homes!!