Style features Fin & Feather’s water garden center
Lakeside’s Fin & Feather is more than a spot to pick up a goldfish — it features its own Water Garden Center with all you need to design, install and maintain your own backyard pond, waterfall or babbling brook. Style Weekly’s monthly Home supplement recently featured Fin & Feather:
This design was inspired by Crabtree Falls, the dramatic, multi-level cascade in Nelson County. Shane Rippey, water garden manager at Fin & Feather’s Water Garden Center, designed it to be low-maintenance — no fish, no plants (though either could be added). Total materials cost: approximately $1,500 to $2,000.To create great sound, “the most important thing is to have enough area at different levels for the water to splash down and break up,” Rippey says. He used flat fieldstone to break the water’s fall at several points.
Position the waterfall near your patio, porch or wherever you’d like to sit and enjoy it. Stand in front of your waterfall and you get the full effect; walk behind it and you can scarcely hear the water. “It really takes a lot of ambient noise out of the neighborhood, too,” Rippey says of the design shown here. The sound, though soft, erases much of the roar of neighboring Lakeside Avenue.