STEP FIVE: ADD DECORATIONS & FINISHING TOUCHES
Basically what I have left to do now is place some ornamental bricks and finish planting around the edges of the ponds, and get my aquatic plants started. Below you can see the brick edges and in the upper pond some water hyacinths, obtained from a local swampy area next to a sugracane processing mill.
These plants were in mostly mucky ground with a high moisture content; notice the tall stems and smallish leaves. It will take some time before they grow specially adapted stem and leave structures to enable them to float on the water surface , but they do it fairly quickly.
Along the back edges, between the wall and the bricks, I will plant bromeliads, ferns, and large-leaved root plants similar to yucca. In the spaces between each brick will go small-leaved succulent plants that form a dense groundcover spreading out to cover the edges and hopefully creep down the banks, which will be planted with dichondra grass.
Well, that's it for now...I will add more photos of the "finished product"(more like a "work in progress"<G>)as the plants grow and become established...'til then, Bye For Now!