POND ON A BALCONY

Condos and apartments usually don't have ponds. Those are for houses with big back yards, aren't they?

Not anymore.

Laguna Deck Pond by Rolf C. Hagen USA is a small water garden that fits on most decks, patios and balconies, even narrow ones in high-rise buildings.

At 34 by 33 inches, the pond has many features of larger ponds, including a waterfall. Small fish can safely and securely live in the pond.

Made from a durable fiberglass-polyresin-granite mix with a natural granite-composite finish, the low-maintenance fixture has a weather-resistant, stonelike exterior.

The Laguna Deck Pond kit includes a Laguna Statuary Pump and 3/8-inch-diameter hosing for pump connection.

Installation is a six-step process that requires no gardening experience. Attach tubing to the pond base, attach and install the pump, attach the waterfall to the pond base, and add plants and water.

Cost is $449.99. Details: www.lagunaponds.com.

Your flower garden looks great, but wouldn't you like to be able to tell where it starts and where it ends?

With Let's Edge It, you can edge and light yards, gardens and walkways without tools or complicated electrical wiring.

The kit comes with a set of realistic-looking plastic bricks with solar-powered lights built into them. Swivel-action connectors allow straight or curved installation to encircle a flower bed or a tree, or follow a curved pathway.

Built-in spikes on the bottom of the bricks hold them in place. Installation requires no digging, mortar or heavy lifting. Homeowners snap pieces together and press in place.

Costs are $39.95 for a 25-foot section of unlit plastic brick edging, $61.95 for a 20-foot kit of edging bricks and four solar lights and $89.95 for a 40-foot kit with six solar lights.

The line comes in terra cotta or gray and is available at argeecorp.com or by calling 1-800-449-3030.

MARTHA PHIFER • Orlando Sentinel