Step 7 - The opposite corner from the Japanese garden is the waterfall. It is about 30 inches high, and built up on a clay foundation with rocks. The water pumps to the top of the waterfall through a piece of garden hose and flows out over the rocks that are set in a base of cement over the liner. Hopefully, I do not lose too much water due to evaporation or splashes outside of the water fall. The water falls over a flat rock to rounded rocks below. The flat rock extends outward a bit so that an echo of the falling water is created in the space under the flat rock. Currently, I am trying to fill in among the rocks on top of the waterfall with plants that can withstand these very dry conditions. I have sedum growing nicely and a very good blue flowering creeping phlox that flows over the top of the waterfall and down the side. There are taller evergreens behind the waterfall to give the appearance of a forest. The cement blocks lead past the yews and boxwood to the vegetable garden that is hidden by the yew hedge. My notes say that as at May 3, 1998 (apx. 8 years ago) the waterfall is running, Hawthorne is in bloom and I have a total of 62 hours invested in the project.

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