Very nice!
I like the fact that you put the pond in your front yard and up close to the house. The bench cements the deal. Most people put the pond too far from the house that can't be view up close while inside.
I would put some small conifers in front of the lattice work and make the landscape more sub-alpine. Do NOT turn it into a boneless cottage garden!
I love the flat rock. Any boulders you could add, or quarry rock outcroppings on the points? (I'm a rock nut)
Do Herons or Kingfishers get any fish? They almost clean out my ponds of insect fattened, feeder Goldfish in the Fall, leaving a few to have fry for the following year. It's a good show. Koi are too expensive to feed to the Herons and Kingfishers, so once in awhile I buy twenty bucks worth of feeder Goldfish just to sweeten the show.
A properly run pond is a mosquito trap, as opposed to being a breeding ground. I have 12 interconnected ponds and people are always surprised by the lack of mosquitoes I have.
Mike

Thank you for yoru nice comments.Yes we have a major heron issue and the biggest visitor is the endangered illegal to harrass blue heron.How we dealt with this is the bottom pond is 5'5 deep so he can not wade in. He has cleaned our big pond down in the field out several times. Now I have a pair of swans in the big pond and they attack him. The large boulders came from the field. I like your idea about cover the lattice with alpines. It is quite shady there so any recs would be nice. We have no mosquito problem because we have two bat caves on the property.Your ponds sound great can you post a pic?

Beautiful. I'm going to build a small pond on my patio next year. For wildlife benefits but also to reflect the sky.

I can post a pic, maybe several. ;-)
That's not my house. It's a small cabin I built to get out of the rain.
Mike

Thank you Severnside and Mike that is gorgeous! What a great setting.That is a major Japanese garden in the making.Doesn't that cabin just say tea house?

Wow, both of these settings are gorgeous. I knew about Mike's, but this is just fantasy to see it in a photo.

.Firefighter I have been watching your garden postings for years and your gardens are beautiful as well. You were the main inspiration for my growing conifer addiction. Thank you for the nice comment.

@Mikebotann

Is it in the center of the pic that you show us one mature plant of Cunninghamia lanceolata 'Glauca'?
Have you some cones on it?
Thanks

Julien

Yes, I have cones every year, but they are never mature enough for viable seed....so far.
Years ago I used to get starts from the Cunninghamia lanceolata, 'Glauca' by rooting them from cuttings. I have about 15 over 7 meters tall and a few over 20 meters tall. I should try propagating some more this year. Now is the time.
Will, how does it feel to be a major conifer enabler? ;-)
Mike....watching it rain. I LOVE being retired and not having to work in the rain anymore.

That is beautiful! I have added both your pics to my screen saver. Now they can be with all the pics of firefighters collections lol.

Botann,

" I LOVE being retired and not having to work in the rain anymore".

Construction??? If so I can relate. Electrician for 39 years in the commercial field. Rain, snow ,ice it didn't matter. You either worked it or didn't get paid.

Dave

Dave, I was a garden designer and landscape contractor for over 35 years. Before that, I worked behind a desk at Boeing. I much preferred working outside. I don't think I'd be alive today if I had continued making a stressful living while sitting down a block from the nearest door to the great outdoors. Boeing has HUGE buildings.
Mike....with two PHDs (Post Hole Diggers)