Water Gardening: Pond story, 1 by pbtxlady

pbtxlady wrote:
Which brings me to fall of 2012, when I was finally ready to deal with it. Did I mention that this area turned out nothing like I envisioned when I started out? What I had in mind was something a little more manicured and fountain-like, and less "natural." I had a hard time, though, finding rocks or pavers or anything that would work well with cascade ponds, so that's how I ended up using the flag and now sandstone.

Last fall and over the winter I took it all out, redug and reshaped the hole, and firmed up that unstable side. Got the large pool done exactly the way I liked it... and then found that I had a real problem with the slope. You know, I really couldn't have picked a worse place to put this pond! It slopes in two directions. On top of that, the cascade pools are located at a lower place than the big one, which meant they had to be built up a lot above grade.

So, anyway, the top edges were nowhere near level, and I had a lot of unattractive exposed liner. I had already lined the top edges with pavers under the liner, to stabilize the edges, but I needed to do a lot more. So I ended up using some of the old flag to do that. Good thing I hadn't hauled it away yet.

This message was edited Apr 30, 2013 3:33 AM