Veteran-owned · Thomasville, NC · Est. 1999
Custom ponds, pondless waterfalls, and water gardens for homes and businesses across the Piedmont. We set weathered stone so the edges fit — as if the water carved them — not a pile of rock tossed in over a weekend.
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Alan + Sherry Koontz
The Builder & the Boss
1999
Same company, from day one
The stone
A puzzle, not a pile
The Triad
Thomasville, and the towns around it
Since 1999 · Thomasville
Carolina Pondscapes has designed, built, and maintained water features in the Piedmont since 1999. Ponds, disappearing waterfalls, water gardens, fountains — houses and businesses. A lot of pond companies around here have been bought, sold, or started over. We have not.
Alan builds. Sherry plants and runs the shop. Between us that is a long time in the water, and we still walk a lot before we write a number.
Look at the stone on any feature you are considering. Was it thrown on top of itself, or do the edges lock the way water would have worn them? That is the whole difference. We have worked weathered boulder that way since the first job.
Field / construction
Alan is the Pond Man. Eight years in the Army, then ponds for family, then ponds for everyone else. Excavation, liner, plumbing, and the rock. He would rather walk the grade than price a photograph. The feature is the point. The awards can wait.
336-451-0132 · alan@carolinapondscapes.com
Ops / horticulture — The Boss
Sherry is the Boss. Fifteen years as an Army mechanic taught her what finished work looks like. Horticulture is how she keeps a pond alive after we leave — plants, the ecology of the water, the calendar, and the invoice. If you call the shop, you are talking to her.
336-451-0130 · sherry@carolinapondscapes.com
The method
We take our time and make a picture with the stone. We do not install a water feature in a day, and we do not hand you a manufacturer’s brochure of somebody else’s pond. The faces are weathered. The liner stays hidden. The pump is where we can still reach it next spring.
Other builders in the Triad started using the same technique after they saw ours. Ask them whose work is in the photo. Then come look at ours.
Walk the site with AlanHow a pond gets made
01
A free visit at the house. We look at the fall of the lot, the shade, and where you will actually sit. Then a written estimate — not a number from a catalog kit.
02
Excavation, liner, plumbing, and the boulder work. The stone is set like a puzzle. Spillways and edges should read as if the water did it. This is not a one-day install.
03
Sherry plants the shelves and we start the water. After that: maintenance, spring cleanings, and a phone that still answers when a pump quits on a Sunday.
Deep enough for fish, clear enough to watch them, stone that hides the plumbing.
The sound of a falls without a pond to keep. They run for weeks while you are gone.
Shelves, lilies, and an ecology Sherry will stand behind.
A picture made of stone — streams, basins, and dry creeks that still move stormwater.
Warm light on wet rock after dark, and walks that actually meet the water.
Spring openings, summer chemistry, fall nets, and the pump that quit.
When you are ready
The shop is open Monday through Friday, 8 to 5. Weekends are for emergencies. Book a consult and Sherry will get you on the calendar. If the pump is already down, call Alan.
