It is a small London garden, but it has two ponds, with a solar panel which activates a pump so that when the sun is out the water pumps from the lower pond to the upper one, and cascades back in a waterfall. Here you can see the stones it splashes onto

Here is a view of the lower pond in spring when the water hyacinths are just coming out.and
The pond is edged with slate, which for me represents home, because I come from North Wales. Slate has also been used, along with anything else I can find, for paving. Between the paving stones there are small creeping plants of various sorts.

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Including kiwi fruit vines. You have to have one male and one female plant to get fruit. So far, mine have failed to procreate. This one's the male.

Not to mention  several clematis - this one produces a vulgar profusion of pink blossom in April and houses a blackbird's nest. 
Every year, the parents patiently rear their young and every year, just as the fledgelings are ready to learn to fly, and despite our every effort to protect them, they are caught and killed by a particularly agile cat which lives two doors away.

And a magnolia grandiflora, which flowers magnificently in June.