For your amusement: Recent garden project finished (Dial-up warning!) [View All]

We decided to turn a part of our garden into a stone garden. Before, there was a little overgrown pond with an adjacent jungle. Here's a shot of what it looked like before. The work started then, so that's explaining the mess (the tube on the right belongs to the koi pond coming from the UV-light):



That's how the garden angle looked after the plants were moved and transplanted elsewhere:



Then, on the dirt came sand, and someone left their footprints:





After the sand came the foil:



Then came the pebbles, one ton so far, not counting the boulders we moved:



Ginger wanted more pebbles, so add another ton:



And here's what it looks right now - still a bit empty, but there will be some greens in it, and I put up a long Tibetan Prayer flag yesterday:



The little pond will get some enhancements, too, besides the lotos flower. There will be a waterfall and mist machine for ponds:



All in all, we're pretty happy with the outcome.