Pond/Water Garden Project

[jwstewar]

Here is the arbor that I made her for her B-day. I need to get the nailer out again and reattach one of the slats that I bumped when I was putting it in place. But I'm not dragging the compressor out for 2 nails. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jwstewar]

Another shot of the arbor, and an even better shot of my goof-up.

 

[jwstewar]

Here are some updated photos of the pond. We hauled 3 ton of gravel last week to go around it - that is just the little rocks. She already had the big ones. I still need to get some flexible lines for the lines going down to the pump.

 

[jwstewar]

She didn't like my stream I had built, so she changed it to more of a water fall. We then used mortor around the rocks to stop them from "leaking." Our mason (I won't mention any names but his initials are JWS and he works cheap, just an occasional Pepsi /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif) got a little carried away with the mortor so we have a little bit of clean-up there to do once we get it finished.

 

[jwstewar]

A forward shot of the falls. We are real happy with the effect of the first falls. Really a nice trickle sound. Still have a couple of "leaks" to fix at the lower to falls to force the water up over the rocks. Maybe one night this week. I really want to get the water flowing there.

 

[jwstewar]

This is the filter. I need flexible tubing for this as well so that I can move it back away from the edge of the pond and hide it. They used an odd size outlet and I've had trouble finding hose to fit - at least at our crappy Lowes. I'll stop tonight on my way home to see what I can find.

 

[jwstewar]

Here is the electric pole I put in for juice to the pump and eventual lights. 2 outlets/4 plugs all ran back to the shed on a GFCI outlet with a 20 amp breaker. Thanks to the Inspector for his advice in getting me juiced. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jwstewar]

This is just a shot of my "natural grass" where we ran the wires for the electric about 2 or 3 weeks ago. You can barely tell where we put it. The subsoiler did a nice job in not tearing everything up.

 

[jwstewar]

Some other areas of the flower part of the water garden. I bet Monica is close to doing a quarter acre. She still has a lot of work to go though.

 

[jwstewar]

Here are some of the Emerald Greens and stuff that she has planted around the perimeter that will eventually grow and provide some privacy - along with our White Pines there in the back ground.