Today ’s photos are from Lola Stanton in Highland Lake , New York .
She says,“I had want a water feature for year and long time , something my husband did not see any use for ! The yard slopes down and our basement always got flooded , so last twelvemonth my husband built the wall himself and added a drainage system behind it . It take on him two summer and 40 tons of bluestone .
“ This was my chance for the water supply feature . He leave alone a outer space for it . I had bought the lion ’s drumhead for $ 10 on a trip to Canada 12 years ago and I wanted to use it . There was a cut-rate sale on the tub and even though it was too modest , that ’s all we could afford at the time . I helped dig the hole and the piffling solar heart came next . I planted midget ageratum and repeated creeper and by midsummer last year it had all filled in . I cast the cement leaves for the waterfall . It was fun and easy .
Then the frog move in and it became a pet stain for our three cat . luckily the frogs are riotous than they are ! Now my hubby loves the fountain . After I started importing moss from my walks , he encourage me to lend more and more . The moss seems to love the point since the Lord’s Day does not hit it directly until after 12 noon . The phone of water is soothing and we tend to have our aurora chocolate on that workbench next to it . ”
What an unbelievable , successful project , Lola ! And what a rattling hubby ! Thanks for apportion this with us . * * * Be certain to crack out the 2nd pillar of exposure for what it looked like during expression – that is a LOT of dirt ! * * *
get a project you ’d care to divvy up with us ? Email me ! As always , I ’ll only answer if I design to use your photo ( I would LOVE to respond to everyone , but gosh , I just care there was more sentence in a day ! ) . And if I do n’t respond , it does n’t mean your garden is n’t freak out AWESOME ! I ’ve just got this whole progression in my head … and sometimes I sit on things for a while….and oh , it ’s heavy to explain … .[email protect ]
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2 WAYS TO ENLARGE!Click directly on the photo to enlarge in a pop-up, or click HERE to see this image, larger, in a new browser window.Photo/Illustration: Courtesy of Lola Stanton
