Tranquility - one of my favorite gardens...

in #gardening8 years ago

What can be more peaceful than watching brightly colored koi lazily swimming in a pond beneath you feet?

Place the koi pool in the perfect setting, to enhance the ambiance, is my opinion.

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Provide overhead cover of a small indigenous forest on a slope.

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Interspersed with some shade loving exotics, like the delicious monster...

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...and a series of other pools with cascading mini falls between them.

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Tree ferns are always a favorite.

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A final large cascade into the lowest and largest pond.

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Add a good variety of different koi.

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Add suitable pathways and benches...

...and there you have it, my idea of a perfectly tranquil setting for a perfectly tranquil pool.

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Thank you for posting @gavvet.

Lovely photographs and commentary regarding such a beautiful setting as this pond. Each piece a part of the whole...a tapestry as it were.

All the best. Cheers.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Beautiful photography . Fish and nice

Great place when bored working. Truly a place full of tranquility.

or just need a little peace...

Beautiful and peaceful. Definitely my kind of place.

It's easy to forget everything...

This is really an amazing garden. I could spend some time there every day!

Wish I could but it's 30 km away

What can be more peaceful than watching brightly colored koi lazily swimming in a pond beneath you feet?

That's easy, A tranquil bush setting, looking over the crocodile river into the kruger park would be lovely

A little pond or other water feature can sure be a nice addition to a garden. Do you have to clean the pond very much, as leaves and other vegetation accumulate? Do you use the pond to water any plants? It seems like the water would have a lot of great nutrients in it with all those fish! I hope you are enjoying some interesting insects around the water, too, like dragonflies! Enjoy your tranquility!

Nope, its not my garden, just at a place I visit, so all those chores are someone else's privilege.

I doubt the leaves are much of a problem as its pretty much a full functioning ecosystem... plenty of frogs, tadpoles etc. and amphibians are always a good indicator of ecosystem function.