Behind the scene

   These photos are of the back of the major waterfall seen in the previous post. My wife bought some tiny clay pots for me to use for growing moss.  This was the perfect spot for them.  The moss is Anomodon rostratus, which prefers growing on limestone, which is what is there.

 

Lots of water

   Now to the water garden.  From 2000-2002 I built three separate water features in this garden.  There is a corner waterfall, about five feet high, dropping almost vertically.  About sixty feet away is the large waterfall, actually two separate three-foot vertical drops of water.  Between these two is what I call the "weeping waterfall," though I show no photos of it--as I need to replace its pump and do some rock rearrangement next year.  The photos are actually in reverse order, as Google "improved" its blog system, royally screwing it up in several ways.  So, the first three photos (of course, the last ones) show the corner falls that I took from on top the screenhouse shown in the second actual photo.  The water at the bottom of it splits into two streams that then fall over two short drops into small pools, and then the water flows out of them until it reaches the big pool (which, of course, feeds the corner waterfall).  The entire system has 43 tons of concrete (for the foundation of the big fall) and decorative stone.  I hauled it all up a hill, a 20-foot vertical climb, 200 feet from my driveway.  With a wheelbarrow--700 trips!  The happy frogs could not care less.  Two of the photos of the pond show water lilies, but they no longer are in the pond, as the shade got too deep for them.   So I replaced them with a large, lightweight volcanic stone that is covered with moss (and which is usually occupied by a frog--or two or three).