After six months of both internet and brick-and-mortar searching, we finally found THE waterscape vendor in greater Houston: Nelson Water Gardens in Katy.
This is one of those businesses that realizes its customer base primarily by word of mouth, which is why I'm posting about it. Internet search strings such as 'Houston fountains', 'Houston ponds', 'Houston koi ponds' or similar will not reveal them. They don't need to advertise.
Their sales yard is absolutely breathtaking. When I joked to a salesperson about having driven all the way to Katy from north Galveston County just to see them, he replied that they routinely get customers from as far away as Louisiana.
Having researched water features extensively, I can say that all their prices were at or below prices I saw on the internet.
They make it easy. I've wanted a lily pond for years, but never got around to climbing that learning curve, figuring out what materials to invest in, or how to do it. Well, for $250, Nelson sells a starter kit that includes a 36-inch diameter "kettle" above-ground pond, a large lily of your choice, bottom grass, three different marginal (edge) plants, a pair of fish, a jar of fish food, water conditioner, plant fertilizer tablets, and instruction sheet. Mine now looks like this:
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| It'll get prettier after the plants straighten themselves out in their new environment. |
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| Lily bud about to open. |
Here's a wonderful Flickr sequence showing some of the fountain products and installations that appear to have been done for customers (sorry - I can't get this to embed):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59592417@N03/sets/72157626069108416/show/
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