"Wilson" wrote:

....what I'd like to do however is basically just have the 2x2 basin at the top and a similar size catch basin at the bottom, I don't want a pond and all the work that is involved with it and I don't want fish....I just want the feature and to have it fil
led with plants and then have a nice dry creek bed made with gray slate that someone posted here recently in regards to a Japanese garden.

I'd look into plastic storage containers. I can get a 37 gal one, dark
green, for maybe $10 at the local home center. Pretty close to 2x2
dimensions. With proper rock work, it will hide very well.

I apologize up front for the stupid pond newbie questions

Turn off html, and check your links, I got a 404 on it.