{"id":2759,"date":"2007-08-04T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T12:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2012-07-10T02:10:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:10:49","slug":"marking-the-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"Marking the territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

We knew we wanted flowing water and a pond deep enough to overwinter fish, but didn’t have the space for a riverbed, so a tiered pond with a small waterfall was our choice. Since our backyard is completely flat, we had to create a berm the waterfall could ‘spring’ from. This was also the easiest solution to get rid of the soil we dug out.<\/p>\n

As for position, we wanted part shade, part sun. A compromise between having flowering plants and keeping algae in check. We also didn’t want to have to fish out too many leaves in the fall, so opted for a position at the edge of an overhanging lilac bush, took out the day-glo spray can and marked our territory:
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In the end, we decided to go a little bigger than originally planned, but not too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We knew we wanted flowing water and a pond deep enough to overwinter fish, but didn’t have the space for a riverbed, so a tiered pond with a small waterfall was our choice. Since our backyard is completely flat, we had to create a berm the waterfall could ‘spring’ from. This was also the easiest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}