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How My Pond Became A Rock Garden

Spring bloom at the edge of rock garden and pond.

My rock garden pond contains several hobbies in one place: the rock garden, the pond water garden, the waterfall and filtration system, the goldfish, and the engineering that integrated it all together. It’s all packed into a twenty-foot by twenty-foot (6 m by 6 m) area beside the house and back deck. There’s a lot going on in such a small area.

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Thymus serpyllum blooming at the pond edge
Thrift (Armeria maritima) blooming behind various sedums
Campanula carpatica
Crevice garden blooms
Lagerstroemia hybrid, Larix decidua ‘Pendula’, sedums, and  Lysimachia nummularia reflected in the pond
Narcissus bulbocodium
Campanula poscharskyana growing between the waterfalls
Waterlilies blooming below the waterfalls
Liverwort thriving at the edge of  the water
An American robin bathing in the bog which serves as a biological filter
The sempervivum rock
The sedum rock
Summer view with Lagerstroemia hybrid in full bloom.
Petrosedum ochroleucum

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