How to Build a Natural Rock Fountain and Pond, Continued

Learn how to install a stone wall and pond; includes details on layout, liner and pump installation along with tips, materials and tool lists.

Once they finished stacking the back wall, Doreen and Paul arranged the stones around the pond's edge, making sure to overhang the pond slightly to conceal the liner.

5. Install pump: Ron hooked up the pump and then placed it in the deepest part of the pond. The pump would be plugged into a nearby outdoor receptacle. In addition to circulating the water, the pump would also act as a filter, which was especially important since Paul and Doreen planned to eventually add fish to their pond.

They covered the bottom of the pond with clean round stones that would help conceal the liner. They were finally ready to fill their new pond with water and plug in the pump.

The pump worked fine, but the silly looking, single stream of water shooting out of the wall was not exactly the look they were after.

Ron's solution was to create a water manifold from plastic pipe that distributed the water into three separate streams, allowing it to cascade gently over the face of the rocks, as they originally had in mind.

RESULTS: In the course of just one day, Ron and the Slevins certainly created a little magic! It was everything they had ever hoped for. If Ron was worried about Doreen and Paul never coming in from their beautiful front yard before the fountain was built .