anonapersona said:geekgranny said:WOW, anonapersona. What great advice. :bowdown: I certainly hope you don't mind me asking for some advice a little later.
Anytime. But I am not experienced with alkaline soil and so my help will be only marginally useful, I'm afraid.
I have a cutout in my pool decking about 24" from the edge of the pool where trees were kept when the pool was built. they died from Ash blight. One edge of it has a concrete bowl that has a drain in it; rest is soil.
That sounds almost like you could use it for a small waterfall as well, depending on which way the basin faces. If sealed, the concrete might hold water if the drain were plugged. Then you could use a pump that could recirculate water to a small statue that spits into the basin. Or if the basin faces away from the house or sitting area, then put in a mesh cover to hold rocks that hide the basin of water and pump and have an overflowing urn that spills into the rocks. Only works if there is a viewing or sitting area nearby.
Thanks much. See........... Your suggestion for waterfall or fountain, etc., is just what we can gain from asking you. :-D I had thought about putting a sort of foot bath there to force the dogs to walk through it before coming up on Trex deck and into house, after playing in the "silt". Maybe put some kind of fountain or bubbler too. There is only 24" concrete from edge to pool and 24" concrete from other edge to large river rocks at house foundation. The end of the drain is partially blocked where it is supposed to empty down the hill but was blocked by the railroad tie retaining wall when I had it put in years ago so it is pretty slow moving. At the time the drain was covered so I didn't know it was there. Luckily it doesn't have concrete over one end where it joins another, larger cut-out for a bigger opening in concrete for a clump of ashes they left in when the pool was put in. One of those huge ones fell over across the pool first couple of months we were here. So doing any plumbing will be much simpler having only to deal with digging in dirt.
I'll start a new thread on this. Thanks for the great idea.
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