Landscape Design & Implementation: Water Features

   This is a combination of two pools and a short stream.  The 20 feet between pools traverses a steep slope.  The lower pool is about 6 feet lower than the upper pool.   The style is taken straight from our Northwest woodlands and provides a light, natural, background aural ambience for the patio and deck adjacent to the water, as well as the gardens below.

   This is another Northwest-style water feature on a slope.  It starts out at the top of the hill with water spilling out over a very large boulder into a five foot diameter shallow pool which outlets to a stream that skips and burbles down the slope thirty feet to another, deeper pool with a two foot high, sheer drop waterfall.  This water feature was constructed some distance from the house and the waterfalls were designed specifically to create enough sound volume to be enjoyed from the house 35 feet away.  The photos were taken in late autumn so many of the surrounding shrubs and perennials are leafless.  When they are leafed out and blooming, the water feature has many of its hard edges softened and it looks less 'rocky'.

   This pond is a reconstruction of an older feature that took up about the same space.  We reconstructed the upper waterfall, all the plumbing and added lighting.  It is about 5 feet deep, 20 feet long from end to end and houses a beautiful collection of Koi year round.  This water feature is a great example of a fully integrated landscape - the deck joins the pond, patio, gardens, and surrounding pathways into a placid urban sanctuary.