Saturday, June 3, 2017

Water feature system

For Butch:
I tried taking a video of the water like you did of your pool, but it was impossible; so here are a handful of sequence stills.

This began twenty years ago with a small galvanized "cow tank" to which I added a small pump and fountain, mostly for the birds. Over time rocks were stacked and plants were added. Now tank is behind a row of hostas. The back half of the tank is under rocks and some creeping plants; the front of the top is an access to a pump and filter.  Eventually I think I can completely conceal the tank.


The pump pushes water  up the hill in a concealed hose and accesses the rock garden "spring" under a a fairly large Creeping Yew.


 It flows out of a mini grotto, down a shallow stream birdbath ...


and spills over a tiny waterfall ....


... into a sunken pool, over a piece of petrified wood into a lower pool under the rocks that spills down into the tank.


- Gunnar

2 comments:

  1. Thanks, Gunnar -- That kind of quality only happens "over time" and paying attention to detail. It's everything to nature, and more, as mine is to culture (geometry). In these 32 years since I built mine from the foundation rock of an old house downtown, I've never not wanted a natural one coming down out of the spruces and connecting into the upper pool. Maybe next lifetime. : ) Thanks again.
    Butch

    ReplyDelete
  2. We are running out of lifetimes and waiting for the next owner to tear it out and turn it into sterile ground again.

    ReplyDelete

If you chose to comment anonymously please leave a consistent name or initials below your comment.