Relaxing water feature wraps around home

Stubinger home earns Yard of Month

Melvin and Joan Stubinger have worked hard to build and maintain the 2,000-gallon water feature at their Cole County home. The four-level feature offers relaxing sights and sounds that were appreciated by Yard of the Month judges and attendees to the 2012 Bittersweet Garden Club Tour earlier this year.

Melvin and Joan Stubinger have worked hard to build and maintain the 2,000-gallon water feature at their Cole County home. The four-level feature offers relaxing sights and sounds that were appreciated by Yard of the Month judges and attendees to the 2012 Bittersweet Garden Club Tour earlier this year. Photo by Julie Smith.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

LOHMAN, Mo. — The best spot in the Stubinger garden, named August Yard of the Month, is an aged swing beside the lowest pond in their wrap-around water feature.

At night, one can watch the fish swim through the glow of underwater lights and listen to the waterfall spilling into the pond over the north-side natural slope.

The sounds and sights also can be appreciated from the family room picture window and from the rear deck and gazebo.

Unfortunately, the mounds of water lilies and hosta took a beating from hail and wind in a recent thunderstorm.

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