https://video.nostr.build/ddc1dae152e6f58eccac51cdf041129ef3039d449104586fb8bd75926542e4a3.mp4

Built a water planter/mini pond because adding water to a garden is supposed to help nature, even adding a quarter height barrel, watertight pot or old Belfast sink with pond plants to a patio can help.

Bedded 4 paving slabs on some 10mm ballast concrete, used 2 courses of 250x120mm treated softwood sleepers on edge screwed together with long green treated wafer head timber screws, used galvanised L brackets & shorter treated screws on the internal corners. Added a layer of building sand inside on the floor, underlay & pond liner with a decking board cap.

Added a small solar powered fountain sat on top of an old strawberry pot, cut a hole in a riven stone slab for the pump and core drilled the biggest pebble I had for the jet, my old 1/2" bsp threaded chuck dedicated core drill and quality Marcrist core bits did the job.

The plants in plastic baskets sit at various heights depending on their type, oxygenating at the bottom, marginals a few inch down on bricks and floating plants just thrown in.

#plantstr #nature #wildlife #garden