Why Dragonfly…? I wanted a name that was truly unique to the pond environment. Fish and frogs are not everybody’s favorites (especially frogs when they are calling out for that special friend in the spring) but a dragonfly is captivating and the world around us seems to stop as we watch it buzz around a pond. It seemed like a good fit.
Water has always been fascinating to me. It probably started as a child, constructing large dams with the Tonka toys. It was a lot of fun but I don’t think the neighbours down the street really appreciated our engineering feats. Jump ahead a couple of decades and I am still playing with water, but no longer flooding out the neighbours driveways at the end of the day.
It was time for a change and in 2005 Dragonfly Ponds and Landscaping was born. After starting out with general landscaping, I quickly discovered that it would be best to focus on what interested me the most, water features and know it inside and out, rather than try and learn the many other components of landscaping and just be good at everything. The name was changed to Dragonfly Ponds and Water features and the huge learning curve started to become a specialist.
For over 18 years I have been given thousands of opportunities to repair, improve and rebuild water features made by general contractors and homeowners.. These challenges have allowed me to see just how easily poor design and/ or installation techniques can change what should be a joy to everyone, to a very frustrating experience. It is very rewarding and satisfying to be able to fix a client’s water feature and bring it up to where they had always visualized it, or better.