Let the murderous rampage begin

[addy1]

That is beautiful, love the way you built it! Great water flow too

 

[Shdwdrgn]

One more shot... The sun has come around and is giving better light now, plus I've been adjusting the rocks and got the water spread out a little more across the face of the falls. Now I need some plants growing in the bog!

 

[addy1]

very very nice, you should be darn proud of your work.

 

[fishin4cars]

Really looking good, I like the effects the water has coming down the rocks. I never thought I would like water falling down a stright vertical wall but I do like that look. Very nice, now hopefully the plants will forgive you for stomping them and will fill back in really nice again. Job well done!

 

[Shdwdrgn]

My wife was really disappointed when she originally saw that I had built a brick wall rather than a wall of river stones for the waterfall. I think its starting to grow on her now though. Really, with the tight space I'm working with, I had to keep the wall pretty narrow. I suppose now that I know how to work with cement, I could probably put together a riverstone wall, but I do like the looks of this sandstone when its wet.

Believe it or not, the plants have already been trying to make a recovery (and I've still been walking all over them). Some spots have definitely been killed, but if I can stay off the plants, they'll fill back in soon enough. The next step is getting plants in the new bog. Strangely enough, since I'm ready for them now, I did a new search on Sarracenia Purpurea (carnivorous pitcher plant) tonight... and I found there is a new vendor on Amazon selling them! I put in a question to try and find out if they have the Winter-hardy variety, but it looks promising, and the price is really good. Crossing my fingers that I'll have some skeeter-eaters growing soon!

 

[j.w]

Ummmmmmmmmmm, you used the 4 letter word DONE up there in one of your posts............shame on you after you scolded me for using it. Pond work goes on throughout eternity till the end of time.....................and your wall of water looks wonderful!

 

[Shdwdrgn]

Small children, cover your ears... I'm about to use a four-letter word...

I'm DONE!!!

I readjusted a spot in the bog liner today and used some of the seam tape to stick the folds together. It appears I no longer have that small leak I was seeing (so far the ground is dry). While I had a bunch of the gravel out of the way, I poured in all of the peat and sphagnum moss I had, then buried it under the layer of gravel. This will hopefully give me a more acidic bed for my carnivorous plants to grow in (crossing fingers!). So here's a top view of the mini-bog. The gravel is piled up in the center rear so the plants which require it can keep their crowns out of the water.

I used the last of my black waterfall foam to fill in some areas between the posts and the barrels (still need to trim it up tomorrow after it dries) which will help keep bugs and other stuff out of there. I also finished trimming up the excess liner around the sides of the ceder boards. There's not a whole lot I can do to make the rubber in front of the barrels look any better, except grow a lot of plants to cover it up.

a view from the left side of the waterfall...

And a view from the right side...

The plants are fairly trampled, but still trying to come back. They might fill back in some this year, but by next Summer you won't be able to tell anything ever happened. Now I need to start collecting some plants for the bog, and some vines like clematis to grow up over the barrels (to hide them) and trail down the waterfall. It shouldn't take too much effort to finish hiding the barrels behind lots of plants.

And finally, a shot of the whole pond... somewhere behind the plants... I think...

 

[j.w]

The plants you put in the bog will eventually hide that liner especially the way the plants seem to grow for you! All looks great!
I guarantee tho that you aren't done..................you can never be free again...............you are doomed to tweaking for the rest of your ever lovin pondering life on something to do w/ your pond

 

[Shdwdrgn]

I hit up Lowes today in an attempt to snag some bog plants... and was sorely disappointed. Nothing at all suitable to grow in the water. However I did run across some other plants to start hiding the filter barrels.

The red plants to the left are full-shade plants, which is great because on this side everything is shaded by both the large locust tree and the pine tree (and the filters themselves) -- of course I managed to take the picture in the 5 minute period of day that any sun gets through the trees. They will grow about 24" tall, so should do a great job of covering the filter and some of the fence.

Behind the large red rock and the post, I planted a clematis with white/pink flowers. Once it starts growing out, I'll train the vines around the wooden post and up around the waterfall...

Directly behind the waterfall, in the 3" strip of dirt that is still exposed, I planted a honeysuckle that was in that area when the old pond was here. It has been climbing up the fence over the past year, and with the waterfall now complete, I draped some of the longer vines out across the gravel bed. In my old pond, I had a honeysuckle which used to grow out into the water and float. It liked the pond so much that the floating parts would actually stay green all Winter, despite the occasional hard freeze. This one is going to be trained over to the right side of the waterfall, where it will cover the wood post on that side.

To finish it off, I pulled some of the hyacinths out of the pond and put them back up in the barrels again (not shown in the picture). It shouldn't take them long to really pack in, and they do a great job of dressing up that space (and hiding the plumbing).

I think I'm pretty much set for next year's growing season

 

[j.w]

Well then grow on suckers, grow on and hide Shdwdrgn's barrels :banana:
Those plants are gonna look nice there!