Backyard Pond

[MMAX]

Originally Posted by STANKYfish

Wow!! Very nicely done Perfect job for the area you chose and to dig it by hand! How long have you been working at this? Nice selection of rocks as well, by their colors, sizes and shapes. Did you find (hand pick) the big rocks?

Broke ground in July 2009 and it's been an ongoing project. Everything was done by hand. There's no shortage of rocks in this country so I decided to use mostly fieldstone. I'm lucky enough in my line of work to be able to pick any good looking rocks from the roadsides in my area. I also have a couple of co-workers with massive rockpiles on their land. I can't imagine what I would have paid if I had to buy all of them. Rocks at landscape stores aren't cheap. Alot of the aquatic plants were hand gathered as well. Cattails, reed grasses and others from sloughs and ditches helped to cut down the costs.