19th Annual Pond Tour 2013
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This year is the 19th annual tour, featuring 21 ponds. As always, we have a wide assortment of large and small ponds, both pro-built and DIY, all of them spectacular. Some of the DIY ponds you won't believe were not built by a professional crew. There is even a home with a very modern take on our favorite garden feature - its entire entry courtyard is a tiled formal koi pond, with a marble slab walkway suspended above it.  

 

Tickets are available now! You can purchase them here using PayPal, or from one of the vendors listed below.

 

 

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Attend the Pond Tour for Free!

Would you like to attend the pond tour for free? You can, by volunteering! 

When you volunteer for the pond tour, you'll pull a four-hour shift at one the ponds on the tour, checking wristbands and handing out programs. In return, you get to go on the tour for free, get a free tour t-shirt, and get to come to the SPLASH! Party, held the weekend before the tour.

You do not have to be a Austin Pond Society member to volunteer.

This year, we have t-shirts in men's sizes S-XXXL, and tank tops in women's sizes S-XXL. You can order extra shirts for $10 each. You can pay for the extra shirts when you pick them up. Traditionally, we deliver both the free and extra shirts at the SPLASH! party. The SPLASH! party is on June 1 this year.

The tour is June 8th and 9th. North ponds are on Saturday, and South/Central ponds on Sunday. The shifts are 8:30 am - 1:00 pm and 12:30 to 5:00 pm. There's also a night shift Saturday night, 7:30 to 10:30 pm. 

If you want to volunteer, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with the following information:

Your name:
Your email:
Your phone number:
Shirt size and type (if you don't specify, you'll get a t-shirt):
What shifts are you available for?
If you are volunteering at a specific pond, which one?

If you want to order extra shirts, give quantity, types, and sizes:

We're going to have a great tour this year - volunteering  is a great way to participate for free!

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2013 Pond Tour
Tour Application Period Closed 
Thanks to everyone who volunteered their ponds! We have enough ponds for the tour and are not accepting anymore applications for this year. However, if you would like to be first in line to be considered for next year's 20th anniversary tour, fill out a tour application and send it in with a note that you want to be considered for 2014.
 
February 2013 APS Meeting

We hope everyone had a great time at last month's meeting. Sorry we didn't have a write-up of it here. However, you can find a nice recap of the meeting at Frank Allcorn's blog (http://pondblog2011.mlblogs.com/). If you've never read Frank's blog, you should! He's built five wonderful ponds, which you might have seen on past pond tours, including last year's.

Our next meeting is Monday, February 18. Steve from Hill Country Water Gardens will be our speaker. He will be giving us advice on how to prepare our pond for the spring.

There will be time for you to ask questions.


 
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Membership News

Meeting Location
We meet in the Austin Area Garden Center, located inside the Zilker Botanical Gardens at Zilker Park. The Zilker Botanical Gardens are at 2220 Barton Springs Rd. in Austin, Texas. Parking at the Austin Area Garden Center is free for the meeting.
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