Suburban Gardening

We have added a pond.  As I noted earlier, it was mostly recycled.

In fact we joke, the whole thing cost us $2.45!

Our neighbor was getting rid of the plastic pond, two different tiers of it.  So we took it and planned on installing.  But then she brought over the pump and a little hosing for it a few days later than she found in the garage. 

Then we got some of those stacking wall bricks that another neighbor was trying to get rid of from her back yard.  That made us think that we wanted a raised bed pond.

we dug a hole for the deepest part of the pond, placed the bottom in it.  Build the retaining wall bricks around it, and then hauled the FREE MULCH that we can get from the local city recycling center.  We used that as the filler instead of dirt.  Added the second tier and got it leveled off.

Even the plants are recycled from another water gardener who shared, and other plants around the yard that can easily convert to "bog" plantings.

The $2.45 was for a hose connecter we needed to attach the pump to the waterfall......

Here are a few pictures of it after the water cleared up a little and the plants established itself...

We added a few banana trees (I LOVE BANANAS!) with a little bed we built with more free mulch and some local native rocks (thanks for someone who responded to my Craigslist ad, allowing me to take some rocks from his farm's fields).

I LOVE IT......we plan on expanding it a little to include a second bed, more tropical plantings, and maybe even another tier of the pond (next year's project)

Until Next Time!!