Should You Run Your Water Feature In Winter?
There is a pond here somewhere under all the ice and snow! Deciding whether you should run your water feature during the winter comes down to a few considerations. Let's examine those a bit... All this ice formation is from the water feature itself -- that's a lot of lost water. Topping your water feature off in the winter can be difficult. You will still lose water from evaporation in the winter time, especially if you have a large waterfall. And remember that any ice that forms on the top of your feature is ice from your feature -- meaning that if you have 3" of ice on the top of your pond, that's water that's not available for your pond. To top off your water feature in the winter, you'll need an unfrozen spigot and a thawed hose or a way to hook up a hose on the inside of your house. (We have spent many very cold days with a hose connected to our kitchen faucet and ran through our back door.) But when we get a really cold spell
