Wow, that looks like a great work space. Not only for potting plants, but for doing other work as well. I'm jealous of the big open area under shade. You could refinish furniture or do all kinds of cool projects there.

DH built a similar sink set up (much smaller) in our little greenhouse. The water just goes into the gravel under the sink. In our drought-stricken, dusty climate it has worked perfectly. I'm sure you'll love having water there.

Those stairs look very mysterious and inviting. Makes me want to wander up there...

mudhouse, the mysterious stairs are built into and around that big boulder you see. They end on a deck with a door directly across into the house.

If you turn right, you walk on the deck then go up concrete steps to the top of the big boulder where we have planted a couple fig trees (in gopher wire baskets), next to a concrete patio.

If you turn left, you can go up 3 steps to the top of the deck that the potting shelf is under. The deck gets a lot of shade from a huge tree and it has a city and agriculture view.

Bummer! I took all the mystery away!

Thanks for your nice comments. I know the water is the best thing about that bench!
Suzi

Ooooh, see, I knew my instincts were right. How cool to have the stairs wrap around a giant boulder!

Just noticed the overhead lights too. Officially jealous to have such a good outdoor workspace. I'd be out there in the evenings too. I always have too many pots, so I'd probably try to score some kind of tall shelf unit at a thrift store to have lots of pots storage.

You could use more doors to build another counter area, and leave space underneath for Rubbermaid type bins. That's what I use under my potting bench to keep my soil mix. You could also use undercounter space for things like bags of perlite (or whatever you keep on hand for potting mix.)

Yup, definitely officially jealous.

mudhouse, we are definitely going to make more counter space with extra doors. That's a great idea to keep potting mix in the rubbermaid type bins. We do have perlite stored on the other side of the space, and I use a lot of that stuff!

Thanks!

Suzi