Water Gardening: Pond story, 2 by pbtxlady

pbtxlady wrote:
Someone asked on another thread that I post pictures of my pond in progress. I thought it might be fun to include some pictures to show how it's evolved over time.

I got the idea to put in a tiny little water feature back in 2004. I have a u-shaped patio on the side of my house, which is the view from my kitchen table, and my living room and dining room. It occurred to me one day that I really needed to put something cool in that area. But I have a teeny little urban lot, so a teeny little pond seemed appropriate.

My yard had been neglected for a long time--turned over to the dogs and the kids while I went back to school. I really had my work cut out!

Here's where we started. These were taken from the back door, not the side. First we dug a shade garden and put in a little paver walkway. Ugh--I don't even like to remember when it looked like this. LOL!