Linda,
That is a really nice rock garden!
Mary,
Beautiful! It would be hard to give the pond up, but I'm not the one who has to maintain. It's maily why I don't have a pond of my own :o)
My rock garden was a huge tree stump that was burned out for many years before we moved here in 1976. We continued and finally got the last bit of root out years later.
It went from this in 2006 to this.