What a beautiful job you did on the pond.

I agree, leaves are annoying. I built a screen cover for my pond and it did a good job keeping the leaves out and protecting the plants from the frost. However, my pond is much smaller than yours and is easy to cover.

Anne

We had tried putting a net over the pond but it is such a pain to deal with. We have at least a garbage can full of leaves fall on the pond every day, so within two days the leaves overwhelmed the net. Removing it is not exactly easy or a one person job. In the end we gave up, and let the skimmer suck up the majority of debris and just hand skimmed the rest.

Nice- I love the natural feel next to the trees, even though it creates the leaf problem.

What are the dimensions and the gallonage?

Very lovely pond. Mine is similar, where did you get your flat rocks????

Kitt

Your waterfall turned out just gorgeous with the flat rocks. Looks like you could sit on the edge rocks, too. That'll be especially nice next year wen it's full of plants. Peaceful!
Vanessa

Nice job!!

Thanks everyone for your kind words.

To answer some questions:
The dimensions are aprrox 9.5 feet at widest, 14.75 feet at longest. Deepest depth 3ft, average is probably about 2 feet. The gallonage is probably somewhere between 1700 and 2000.

The rocks are something called "Avondale Brown" fieldstone, since I live relatively close to the Avondale, PA quarry. We purchased two pallets (3 tons) of regular fieldstone, then hand picked four or five large flat rocks from a local stone and landscape place for the waterfall.

The final result of the rock border took a long time to place. You can see in the other pictures our first attempts did not look so great. I give all the credit to my fiance. She hand picked each and every rock for the walls so they fit together perfectly.

Just wondering, where is Avondale PA, and how far from the Ohio st line.......I live in OH and was wondering how far it would be to get some of those??? probably a dumb question.

Kitt

Wow, that is a really nice pond and waterfall. The waterfall is really in scale with the pond. Nicely done! I am impressed that you kept the pond width under 10'. If I had to do it all over again I would do this as well. It makes solar covers, greenhouse covers, ect possible without too much trouble. Getting over 10' and it gets involved.

So now that it is November how if the pond doing? Are you going to take advantage of the end of year prices on evergreens and other pond perimeter plants? Or keep if more hardscape looking? Either way I really like it.

Regards,
Lisa

Dude....the pond rocks! Dave

Kitt:

Avondale, PA is maybe 10 minutes from Delaware (where I live) so I'd imagine that it would be quite a hike from Ohio. I was told that the rocks are most similar to what is called "French Country" fieldstone so if you like the style/color you may want to check those out as well.

We'd like to put more plants in and around the pond but our priorities have shifted slightly since the economic mishaps. We may have to hold off plants for another year. In the meantime, the fish are pretty happy with the relatively warm autumn we've had, and I haven't shut off the pump yet.

Looks wonderful, you guys must be so happy!

You're better off waiting until next spring for the landscaping anyhow...this gives you
an entire winter to do your arm chair planning. :)

Welcome to the world of ponding, your adventures are just beginning!

Joann