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pond with small stream and falls; new pics

16 years ago

I took these pictures yesterday evening and a few more this morning. We are enjoying a NorthWest heat wave. The afternoons have been in the 80s. We love to sit by the pond in the evenings and watch the fish eat. A Great Blue Heron and later raccoons ate all the koi. Now we share the pond with feeder gold fish and lots of frogs.

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slook
very beautiful! gorgeous! nice rocks and driftwood! looks so very natural!
slook
very beautiful! gorgeous! nice rocks and driftwood! looks so very natural!
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Thank you for the positive feed back. Brenda,the tree in question is a Red bud called Forest Pansy. I love it, but for some reason it has not bloomed for me yet, and every year I worry that it is dead because it takes so long to leaf out. In spite of this it is still one of my favorite trees. Dear spat72 I built my pond using a kit, which includes the liner and a skimmer and waterfall filter, with a flexible pipe that connects the two. It is an ingenious yet simple design, that makes pond building both easier, and the filtration is far superior to the older styles of pumps and filters. The rocks line the bottom and sides and add to the bio filtration. The skimmer cleans out the leaves and gunk off the surface and the waterfall portion is a large Bo filter as well. I donÂt clean it any more and other ponds, but I did invest last year in a good pond vacuum that has made life even easier. The kit I used was a small one. The link below shows photos of a much larger pond being built. Check out the kits they have for sale. Also look for my first posting in the pond gallery; http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/ponds/gal012232314290.html?25041 this is a link to my second posting for more pics http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/ponds/gal061711545355.html?13 large pond kit, how to, pics http://www.lochnesswatergardens.com/articles.asp?id=131 Bog garden design link http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/design/handbooks/watergarden/8.html On your Idea of a Bog garden. You should think about building one on the side of your pond in shallow water. Use the same pond liner as the rest of the pond, Make a underwater burm to separate it from the rest of the pond and use a bed of deep gravel to plant in directly. I donÂt use pots in my pond. I just use gravel, and larger rocks to hold it in place on the slopes.
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I have five liner ponds and all have the liner folded back towards the water over a shelf filled with flat rocks so that the liner will not show if the water level drops. You can see the liner sticking up a bit on the top pond in this photo. Before the rocks were finished. The lower pond has started to be planted already. As you can see the ground cover plants are really close to the pond. You can see a layer of the rocks below the water line in the filled pond. This photo is the lower pond in the top photo more recently. You can see how much the plants have grown. The waterlily is Perry's Baby Red and is planted in clay garden soil that was put on top of the liner which is why the top photo shows muddy water. Here is a close up of the stacked rocks on the shelf. Charlie's Choice waterlily towards the back, PBR closer to the camera. This is another one of the front ponds showing how the liner is folded back towards the pond but hasn't been cut off yet. The water level will be above the liner when full, lowered to work on the rocks in the photo.
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slook
very beautiful! gorgeous! nice rocks and driftwood! looks so very natural!
slook
very beautiful! gorgeous! nice rocks and driftwood! looks so very natural!
youreit
16 years ago
Thank you SO much for posting new pics of your pond! When I first started dreaming about ponds, THAT is what I wanted. Ok, I still want it, but I'll have to wait for DH's encore performance of pond building. Or until we move somewhere bigger. :D

That looks just like the place I picture in my mind as my "special spot"...the place where, if I found it in nature, I'd never leave. :)

Brenda
prairie_bogger
16 years ago
Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing your pond with us. I agree with Brenda-- a place I would never want to leave either.
sheepco
16 years ago
Nice work, and alot of it I bet! Just beautiful.
joeyb5980
16 years ago
Gorgeous- looks like pics from a magazine!
wanderoze
16 years ago
It looks very tranquil and natural. Beautiful!
fireant
16 years ago
I love the wild and natural look of your pond and stream, not an easy thing to capture.
lsst
16 years ago
It is just beautiful! I love all the rocks and how natural it looks.
fairy_toadmother
16 years ago
i love the smooth river rock area! natural doesn't even seem to describe it. it looks so "real"- great job!

is there an underlayment under them? i ask b/c i don't know how to do squat. i have tried similar on a small scale, but ants nests in it and bring the dirt to the surface. my rocks are barely visible now. not to mention fall leaves.
fragaria
Original Author
16 years ago
Thank you for your kind and generous feed back. To answer your question, fairy_toadmother, the rocks on the edge of the pond and stream are covering the edges of the rubber underlayment in most of the areas. There is some overlap of course. I tried to create beaches on the turns of stream that have no underlayment. We built the berms from the tailings of the pond and pea gravel patio area. That soil was very sandy. We then added lots of topsoil. Serendipitously the berms are very easy to care for.

Here are some close ups of some of my husband's drift wood collection that we have placed around the pond and two other berms. We love the small vignettes that each small grouping of plants, wood, and stone provide. Like many near sighted children I have a love for the views right at my feet

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youreit
16 years ago
I love those vignettes, too! Like little micro-gardens. The combinations are so beautiful!

Brenda
koiaddict
16 years ago
What a beautiful piece of heaven here on earth. I know it has to bring your hours and hours of joy and tranquility. By the way, where did you find the moss that covers your rocks or is that something that's local to your area?

Cindy (Koiaddict)
Jax, FL
fragaria
Original Author
16 years ago
We have lots of native moss, but the moss that is in the pictures is a scotch moss (not really a moss) that I purchased and have divided around the pond. My thought originally, was that I had too much sun in that area for moss, and as the maple trees grew and shaded the area the native moss would take over.

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