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Laughing Waters, Inc
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Formal Water Garden

Mediterranean Pool, Chicago

This garden imagines the ruin of an ancient Roman bath, remodeled into a koi pond and swimming pool in a splendid formal garden. All over Europe at the height of their empire, the Romans built elaborate baths connected to gymnasiums, not unlike modern health clubs. This landscape, inspired by "Capability" Brown, who designed the gardens of many English great homes in the 18th Century, incorporates the weathered, carved stone of a rediscovered Roman bath organically into the landscape, with natural boulders standing in contrast. Water lilies, iris and other aquatic plants inhabit the water's edge. Biological filtering by plants and bacteria would make it safe to swim among the fish.

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Marianne Lipanovich added this to Lay of the Landscape: English-Style GardensJune 18, 2012

Although the look of this small pool isn't strictly natural, it still works. This pool combines two principles of the...

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Laurie Petrini added this to petrini007's ideasAugust 7, 2021

Minus lily pads