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Message: [QUOTE="cas, post: 374447, member: 7417"] I always appreciate it when people share lessons learned so I thought I would share one of mine. I planted a green mound juniper on the pond hill in 2006 about 4 feet from the edge of the pond. It has done real well and I have had to trim it back quite a bit to keep it from overtaking the flowers and from it going into the pond. Here is a picture of the juniper in 2015, in the upper left hand corner. [ATTACH=full]109803[/ATTACH] A few years ago I noticed a root in the water, a little bit in front of that juniper. I thought maybe it was a root from the blue flag iris which you can see in the picture is right next to it. Finally last year I really inspected that root (which was now 2 feet long) and it didn't look like the same type of root that were coming from the irises (oh-oh). So this spring I started moving rocks around looking for the source of the root. And of course it is never easy. More rocks had to be moved than I wanted, but I finally found how the root from the juniper got into the pond. Thank goodness the root didn't puncture through the liner, which was my first thought, but instead the root got into a fold in the liner that was buried, then followed that fold out of the dirt up the hill and then down into the water, behind some rocks, and then came out into the pond. Below in red was the path the root took. Amazing. I just hope I can get that big rock back in place. :) [ATTACH=full]109805[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]