Beginner Gardening: Driftwood - Part 2, 0 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Willow, We were helping friends move and they were going to leave it. Not really sure where they got it from might have been in the yard when they bought it. It's cement and very old. There was a pedestal and the top, it may have been originally used as a fountain as there is a hole in the top that runs all the way thought the pedestal. I knew what I wanted but was having trouble finding something for the pond bottom. One of my sons was working for a company that makes cement products, basement stairs, pipe, septic tanks culverts. He custom made the pond bottom just to fit the pedestal. They make this 6ft wide 3ft deep well and he poured a center core the same size as the pedestal with a hole running thru it also. We put a circulating pump in the bottom and a flexible tube runs all the way from the bottom of the well up thru the core and pedestal then out the top. I didn't want it to spray up high just enough to bubble over and drip back into the pond bottom. I have fish and frogs as well as pond plants in the bottom.
The driftwood just sits in the top I have never had to secure it in any fashion.
Here is a summer pic pretty overgrown by this time.