Continuing into the abandoned pit (used to be an old swimming pool) I built this raduis bed this summer. Just a form and the poured concrete . I used old bricks to cap it off. I put a bed of blazing salvias in there, including some goodies Ward gave me . Ark Rd. #3 Greggi is the purple bloomer in there , the rest are coccineas and Cherry Chief.
Start with the form , I anchored rebar into existing walls:


making the form:


I capped it with brick ,in tiered levels . Then added salvias , I think it will always be a salvia bed .its a small size and It's always full sun.



Next is the pond, The construction method is almost Identical to the radius salvia bed. I just dug about a foot down , and made for thicker walls and added more rebar and screening.I was able use the old wood and plywood materials from the Salvia bed project. The total depth will be over 3 ft.
I never measured the diameter but it's about 6ft. across tops.I have spacers up top to keep exactly 6" thick walls , a little wider down towards the ground. I will cap it in brick like the salvia bed. I plan on using a pond liner and there will be a small pool behind the pond that will waterfall into it. I still have some reading to do on the maintenance end of things but the const. us up to code for frost zones.

Not sure what kinda critters I will put in there but Im sure the wife will want Koi. I was thinking more like frogs and sunfish !



Zone 6b New Jersey

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Stephen
Please come to wastern NY! Better still leave your wife and marry me at least until you help me get my garden the way I want it! LOL!

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

"Stephen
Please come to wastern NY! Better still leave your wife and marry me at least until you help me get my garden the way I want it! LOL!"



And he takes great pictures also! So Steven, where do you want to move to. NY of MI.?

birdlegs
zone 5
S.E. Lower MI.

Sandy
We could just go under the cover of darkness next spring and kidnap him. I will take him for a month and you can take him for a month then he can go back to Joizy and play with his garden cuz Lord knows he doesn't have much space left to create any more features in his yard LOL!

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

Penny , Sandy - There is a small chance my wife will divorce me...but I have to finish fixing up this house first. It could take several years before she has no use for me. By then I will be a broken-down horse and you will have no use for me either .
The kidnapping idea might be your best bet !

Zone 6b New Jersey

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You guys are makin' me laugh! Perhaps he would prefer me and my garden in western PA. I have this waterfall/waterlily pool idea that would be just the thing, if only I had a little help..... Stephen, we could work together, equal partners, none of this kidnapping or slavery sort of stuff that my rivals are contemplating. Now wouldn't that be fun?

NO NO Kristin! Sandy and I have first dibs. You will have to be third man er woman down and I am pretty good at working side by side too...no slave labor in my yard.

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

Where is he in Joizy? I'm thinking I'm closer, so he could head on over here and stay for several months, at least, and see how it goes. Heck, he might fall in love and decide to stay permanently. Or, if it didn't work out, western NY isn't so far, and then maybe on to MI. I'm just trying to provide him with options.

Does that sound like a plan, Stephen? Then again, there's that wife of yours to consider.

Hey all of this talk of me working is making me tired !
Seriously if I move anywhere it will be to the sunbelt zone 8 or higher , I think Penny would agree . LA,TX,NM,AZ,CA. pick any one of those and I'll start digging ponds !

Zone 6b New Jersey

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Southern CA Stephen! In Dana Point, right off the coast. It's spring here all the time. I've got a spot just for you! Come on down!

Sandra

Hey Stephen, do you play golf? Or tennis? We've got those right next door and it's warm enough to play all winter. Do you like Buff-bellied hummingbirds? There will probably be some Buffies here to pass commentary on your work but don't worry, they're a lot fussier than I am!
I don't need a husband, I just need a pond. Heck, you could even bring the wife along. Can she cook?

Lizette, New Orleans, La.
USDA Zone 9

Stephen
I would take just about anyone of those locATIONS. oF course I love La. and AZ is right up there at the top of the list. It does get a bit warm but I am already conditioned to heat so I wouldn't have to be acclimated.

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

OK, Penny, you can come too! Stephen, wanna build a guest house?

ROFL! this just gets better and better....Lizette my bags are packed especially since my last hummer left this morning headed your way.

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

I'll throw in rice & beans plus a hammock and all the hummers he could possibly handle...

OOPS....I didn't think my last post went through. Penny, do you have a delete button?

Lizette, New Orleans, La.
USDA Zone 9

Lizette it is done!

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

Hmmm,
I seem to be in high demand here - Sandra and Lizette offer excellent warm -weather options with a couple of different hummer species thru-out the year...but Patricia in Costa Rica is in hummer paradise. Would you believe I saw 30 species of Hummingbirds in CR in 5 days !?
Sorry all but me thinks I'm off to Costa Rica ! Pacific slope , have tools and passport , get that rice a-cookin' Patricia !
If Patricia gets cold feet I will see what I can work out with Pitter !



Zone 6b New Jersey

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OH POOP! Well home-girls, it looks like we'll be doing our own digging. As usual.

Lizette, New Orleans, La.
USDA Zone 9

HMMMM....well I have lots of rice and beans and sausage too but alas no hummingbirds to sweeten the pot nor any tropical breezes to sway that hammock! I sure can't come anywhere near topping 30 different species of hummers if I lived two lifetimes.

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