12/15/2023 0 Comments Straight side preform pondIt was time for a trip to a local stone yard to look at river rock and boulders. The are located to the right of the wooden steps from the deck in the above photos. And the two boulders became integrated into the ponds project. Two of the large boulders that they placed were my inspiration for the ponds. A few years earlier, we’d had a local landscaping designer and his company install a hardscape patio and stone wall in our backyard. Inspiration of an existing image is usually what places the creative thought into the mind. Let the tractor do the hard work, if you have one. (Remember “Snowmageddon” on the East Coast a few years back? The Kubota was sure helpful during that cleanup!) The Kubota is a great workhorse for digging large holes and carrying/moving boulders, gravel, mulch, sand, and plants. My husband had purchased a Kubota tractor for heavy lifting, for lawn mowing, and for snow removal on the property. (The chain link fence is also available in green, brown, and tan colors.) We love the fence as it also keeps the deer at bay, and “disappears” into the woodline. The ponds project location was inside the fence. We had previously installed a six-foot black plastic-coated metal chain link fence around about an acre of our back property for our dog’s free roaming. You don’t want a youngster getting into the pond area unsupervised. Some jurisdictions require that you have at least a four-foot fence around any water garden (similar to swimming pool restrictions). What a difference!īefore you start your pond project, please ensure that you research your local building codes and community rules on water garden and pond installation and get all the necessary approvals. If I can do it, so can you! Here are the BEFORE and AFTER views: The "before" photo prior to pond installation. The ponds they had created didn’t look very natural, just some pretty uniform stepper boulders stacked on top of each other.īelow you will see the before and after photos for this extensive, but very doable project. The “affordable” installers wanted far too much money in my opinion (anywhere from $8K – $25K) since pond installation was pretty popular at the time. In 2008, after two years of interviewing pond installers, viewing countless pond installations, and looking up many pond design ideas, I decided to take on the project myself.
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