For some reason, the story behind the feature is posted in the 'southern gardens' thread. I tried to post it 3 times under a new topic, but I couldn't. I am computer stupid!

OK Joan you have my attention! I just saw your info on this qute little water feature under your Southern Gardens thread. Would you considere coming up here for the summer and make mine LOL! i REALLY do like what you did.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Joan,
What's the scoop on the water feature? It looks cool.

Priya
Zone 7, Maryland

Priya,
Joan tells how she did it at the bottom of the Southern Gardens thread. Looks like quite a bit of work and ingenuity but a great idea!

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Joan your creativity is great! I am sure that shallow bathing bubbler will bring you some hummer action. And we can look forward to the pictures.

Wonderful job!


Carol
Milford, CT
Zone 6

I have it under the southern garden thread, but I'll go over it again. And Penny, I wish I could come up this summer! Priya, I bought a plastic waterfall feature from Lowe's that was meant to be used with a pre-formed pond. I wanted to make it look more realistic and also shallower so I covered it with duct tape and rigged up a hose so the pump would make a bubbler situation. I crumpled up newspaper in areas to make little shallow areas and reinforced with mesh. Lizette gacve me the idea from a birdbath at her house. She (and I) used vinyl patch concrete. I put dye in the top layer, will paint after it cures. I made the leaf in the bottom birdbath to cover the pump and keep things shallow. That was from a magazine article years ago. You make a mound of sand, cover it with plastic wrap and put your leaf on it. Add the concrete on top. You could make a ground feeder out of this also.

I don't know if hummers will use it, I bought a cute fountain on sale for half price at Kmart that may be better for hummers. But I was hoping maybe some fall sparrows would bathe in it. So far only lizards have inspected it...

Joan, nice work.

Linda
ne AL
zone 7b

Joan is our resident artist.

and now our resident sculptor!!!

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Outstanding Joan.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Thanks so much for the nice words!

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

What has always kept me from trying one is how to fit it in the greater landscape. The deep ruts that have formed in the gravel driveway (known to friends as Ward's Sea) make a double pond after it rains, the bird like it but it isn't exactly what I am after. Perhaps a shallow pool somewhere with a dock, a place to moor the canoe, and maybe a sandbar with Common Terns chasing baitfish and in winter flocks of scoter. And that is why there is no water feature.

Well, there is no greater landscape here. Just a little bitty urban yard. That will limit me!

Joan Garvey - Metairie, LA Zone 9

Ward would you like to borrow my 19ft. fishing boat for your project

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39