ponds
Key to a stream where the water moves quickly: keep the slope steep and the pathway tight. I wonder if one could have an aquaponics type thing going on here -- like a dish garden and or pots, filled with the little clay pebbles, planted with plants. The water could drain out of the bottom hole, into the stream.
Note the edges, alongside the big rocks, it gets shallower and shallower toward the outside border. The big rocks make a channel and a waterfall. Plants could go in among the shallower area. However, I think around here, we would not be able to make an area that was so shallow that water stood still, and didn't flow, because if the fish can't reach the wigglers, we'd have more mosquitoes.
Plants in the rockery -- plenty of shallow spots for the birds and action figures.
A stream doesn't need be deep at all.
I noticed in natural streams, you have a zillion pebbles and small rocks of various sizes, anchored by some big rocks jumbled here and there -- some by themselves. Thispicture looks right.
Nothing wrong with narrow
This is how I want our yard to look -- always having variation in height, the eye always moving from beauty to beauty.
Reminds me of where the good halves of the Skeksies from the Dark Crystal lived.
Variation in slope -- a beach and a hill
Rocks overhang pond
Gorgeous -- lots of height variation -- subtle waterfall/stream -- border defined with rocks
Grass in between the big stones. Are the irises in pots?
Two with a path and stepping stones -- delightful!
The Figgy Miggy house with the pond as a reflecting pool, right up to the edge.
TWO WATERFALLS? Perhaps it would be possible by diverting the stream or by canting the two pipes in a V formation. I love the moss!
Pretty mix of formality and nature -- TONS of flowering plants
Big and small rocks -- lots of plants -- a bit of a "beach"
This is more like it!
Dreamy! Fairy tale.
A bit too mulchy, but otherwise very nice -- mostly natural looking.
Rocks overhang the edge, obscuring it
Great idea for aquaponics.
Q