Leesa

There is a book called "Japanese Touch for your Garden" by Kiyoshi Seike- it's about $17 at Amazon. You can buy it used for less than that. I think I am on my third copy of this book - I keep lending it to friends who have seen my Japanese Garden. Ponds and "water interests" are usually created by using a different sizes and textures - for example a "stream" of larger round stones bordered by pea gravel often with a small bridge of wood or stone. I suspect that the illusion of a pond might take more space than you have indicated that you have - you need to have the perspective of distance to create pond "edges" with the different textures of stones.

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Respectfully, Lee Sanner

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