Here is another of my clients who do get it. I was terrified after a month or so in the beginning that this wasn’t going to work out. They were so enthusiastic! They kept changing everything! Everything! :-) They also became members of the Koi club and were adding fish right and left :-) .
It has settled down and they are wonderful people. Just a minute ago they sent me a link to an Audubon article written about what I did. www.sandiegoaudubon.org/images/PDF/sketches/skjan16.pdf
It starts on page 3
They are also involved with
www.sdchildrennature.org
And I can’t think of anything more wonderful than getting children exposed to this kind of idea right from the start!
One can see from the pictures that the pool is still murky but I kept their infrastructure intact and they easily could go back. They won’t because they love it so much more and get such pleasure in having this wetland ecosystem in their backyard. They tell me how they are constantly saying that they “have waterfront property.”
One of the reasons that it is still murky is that we wanted to work with a friend (Chris Meador of permasystems.org) to built half of the modular system. Initially we spent some time fine tuning these new modules and soon they will be filled with my wetland systems and the pool will ne clear again. Chris did a great job of working with me on them and I hope to work with him again in the future.
And give me another couple of months and the entire system functioning and I’ll post the pictures of it clear all the way to the bottom!:-)