| Hiya!!
At the entrance to my garden I always wanted a tsukubai. Now I decided to try and construct one myself, including some surrounding vegetation. Note that I have never built one myself... and the ideas I got from books.
Please look at these photos:
http://www.odla.nu/album/data/mrnorth/1431_p26629.jpg
closeup
http://www.odla.nu/album/data/mrnorth/1431_p26630.jpg
It all looks much better when it is moisty but i decided to let go of such tricks ;)
I want suggestions, thoughts!! I realize it is not yet completed and that things are missing... but what? Here are my thoughts:
* Perhaps some bamboo screening in the back to renove some of the wall? A bamboo fence with a clematis?
* Arrange the cobblestones in a different way?
* Set up the basin in a different manner?
* Build a better water pipe? (this was my first attempt, its rather crued and doesn't work with water flowing)
* More plants?? Right now I have holly fern, bamboo and hosta.
I must tell u it was a lot of fun doing this!! And it actually works rather good. The smooth stone to sit on... the other two to put stuff on... Fashinating ;)
yours
Henrik | 
