Comments | iainjclark: Pond life

iainjclark

Pond life

Jun 03, 2007 19:34

As mentioned we're creating a pond at the moment, turning a patch of scrubby garden non-entity into a nice little water feature and, potentially, home to the occasional newts and frogs that visit our garden. So far it's occupied the best part of the last two weekends and it feels like it's taking a very long time to come together. There are a ( Read more... )

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veggiesu June 3 2007, 20:39:48 UTC

I reckon that once you have defeated the malevolent pond liner, polished up your pebbles and persuaded water to do as it's told, that'll look pretty darned good :-)

iainjclark June 3 2007, 21:20:56 UTC

Phew!

tizzle_b June 3 2007, 21:04:37 UTC

Pond Liner?! Easy to solve!

Get it over the area you've got and then push it down to see how much edge-space you've got.

Then fill it with water (i.e. the complete "desired" depth that it's going to end up at) and let it settle itself for 24hrs or so. The liner will sink under the weight and you'll have it in place.

Sorted!

iainjclark June 3 2007, 21:20:40 UTC

We did try this but the problem is your archetypal square peg in a round hole, as in where do the creases go. :-) It's just about sorted now. Just about.

melody_dizzy June 6 2007, 15:04:35 UTC

Your pond is looking great! lucky you for having newts! We built our pond in this place (we moved here in October) must have been late feb/early march. We have a young frog moved in probably a tadpole from last year, and it's awesome, we built it purely for wildlife and won't be putting fish in it. It's lovely to just look at, very relaxing and peaceful our marginals are starting to flower and the lily we put in also. You can get some good stuff (natural native plants) from wigglywigglers, we got some frogbit. As well as some posh potted stuff from the aquatic center.

Your pond is much posher than ours, very nice, very nice indeedy :-)

We put the liner central to the pond, filled with water and folded the
creases or squashed them down a bit as it filled, (not easy) we left some open type folds for things to hide behind.

iainjclark June 6 2007, 21:05:39 UTC

Thanks!

We have yet to see whether the local newts approve of the pond, of course. Yours sounds like it's doing very well!