Water Gardening: We did it! We did it!, 1 by gardenergail

gardenergail wrote:
After coming over both Thursday and Friday afternoons to help me scrape and paint the end gable of my house (which had to be done prior to this project... see my post on Handyman forum), my "BESTEST" friend ButterflyChaser came BACK over today to help me install my water garden!!! It is beautiful!! AND she brought me a van-load of water plants, including about 8 water hyacinths (one even has a bud about to open!), probably a dozen water lettuce, a couple of water lilies, and several other plants (she'll have to remind me of their names). The project took about 6 hrs to complete, and we had a BLAST! Had the boom box out playing a BeeGee's #1's and Earth, Wind, & Fire CD's while we played in the dirt... literally!! I'll post pics of the stages of our 3 day project below.

It's amazing what two buddies can accomplish in a day! DH helped a little patching a couple of cracks (my BIL gave it to me because he wants a different one and didn't want to mess with patching this one... aren't I lucky??).