How to hide a garden pond filter?

If you have or intend to acquire a filtration system for your pond, you may be wondering how you could integrate it into the landscape without it becoming a visual hindrance.

A large black or green filter is sometimes difficult to integrate. You're busy creating a natural look and wondering how to easily integrate your filter into the landscape.

Only solutions at Foudebassin.com , there are different techniques that can help you integrate the complete system into your garden, solutions that we will group together in this micro-guide:

First solution, aquatic plants or grasses:

The first solution that we are going to present to you is the most natural solution, as well as the one that will offer you the most different possibilities according to your tastes and possibilities. This is based on the use of various plants (aquatic and/or terrestrial depending on the location of your filter).

Indeed, if you have the possibility of planting a few plants in a humid area or in the pool in the immediate vicinity of the filter, the plants that you use to oxygenate, filter or even decorate your pool can also be used to hide your filtration system in its together (Filter, UV lamp, piping).

Certain types of plants will be more suitable depending on the size of the filtration element you want to conceal. If it is the filtration tank itself and you want to hide it in its entirety, you will need large plants (according to the measurements of the filter).

In aquatic plants there are different types of large plants that we can recommend:

Here is different types of plants which take a lot of height and volume but which are not particularly flowery.

- Reed family plants like the different Typha: Typha Augustifolia, Typha Laxmanni, Typha Latifolia, Typha Minima (this one is smaller however, between 60 and 80 cm high on average)

- Plants of the equisetum family: Equisitum japonicum, Equisetum americanum. (The other varieties of Equisitum are smaller in size).

There are also scirpus, aquatic zizania , ... and all the other kinds of grasses that are easy to integrate to hide technical areas.

2nd turnkey solution for certain models:

Some brands like OASE offer solutions to hide models like filtoclear or filtomatic. Here are some sample photos below for filtoclear. You can find these solutions by clicking here.

Third solution: use of bamboo reeds.