very beautiful! gorgeous! nice rocks and driftwood! looks so very natural!

very beautiful! gorgeous! nice rocks and driftwood! looks so very natural!

very beautiful! gorgeous! nice rocks and driftwood! looks so very natural!

very beautiful! gorgeous! nice rocks and driftwood! looks so very natural!

Thank you SO much for posting new pics of your pond! When I first started dreaming about ponds, THAT is what I wanted. Ok, I still want it, but I'll have to wait for DH's encore performance of pond building. Or until we move somewhere bigger. :D

That looks just like the place I picture in my mind as my "special spot"...the place where, if I found it in nature, I'd never leave. :)

Brenda

Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing your pond with us. I agree with Brenda-- a place I would never want to leave either.

Nice work, and alot of it I bet! Just beautiful.

Gorgeous- looks like pics from a magazine!

It looks very tranquil and natural. Beautiful!

I love the wild and natural look of your pond and stream, not an easy thing to capture.

It is just beautiful! I love all the rocks and how natural it looks.

i love the smooth river rock area! natural doesn't even seem to describe it. it looks so "real"- great job!

is there an underlayment under them? i ask b/c i don't know how to do squat. i have tried similar on a small scale, but ants nests in it and bring the dirt to the surface. my rocks are barely visible now. not to mention fall leaves.

Thank you for your kind and generous feed back. To answer your question, fairy_toadmother, the rocks on the edge of the pond and stream are covering the edges of the rubber underlayment in most of the areas. There is some overlap of course. I tried to create beaches on the turns of stream that have no underlayment. We built the berms from the tailings of the pond and pea gravel patio area. That soil was very sandy. We then added lots of topsoil. Serendipitously the berms are very easy to care for.

Here are some close ups of some of my husband's drift wood collection that we have placed around the pond and two other berms. We love the small vignettes that each small grouping of plants, wood, and stone provide. Like many near sighted children I have a love for the views right at my feet

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I love those vignettes, too! Like little micro-gardens. The combinations are so beautiful!

Brenda

What a beautiful piece of heaven here on earth. I know it has to bring your hours and hours of joy and tranquility. By the way, where did you find the moss that covers your rocks or is that something that's local to your area?

Cindy (Koiaddict)
Jax, FL

We have lots of native moss, but the moss that is in the pictures is a scotch moss (not really a moss) that I purchased and have divided around the pond. My thought originally, was that I had too much sun in that area for moss, and as the maple trees grew and shaded the area the native moss would take over.