Does anyone one have any sort of overflow system, or just a ‘low point’ where the water drains out into the soil?
I inadvertently set up an overflow system but it was by chance not design. When we filled, we found the lowest point was where the new pond met the old sandpit. I had bought way too much liner because I didn't know what I was doing so I just didn't cut this part off and sunk it into the old sandpit. I have filled that with bog friendly plants.
Cloggie said: I inadvertently set up an overflow system but it was by chance not design. When we filled, we found the lowest point was where the new pond met the old sandpit. I had bought way too much liner because I didn't know what I was doing so I just didn't cut this part off and sunk it into the old sandpit. I have filled that with bog friendly plants.
Sounds like a good solution. I ended up just having the lowest point draining into a dry shady corner, figured the extra water can’t do any harm
Pond Update..... Added the little header pond today. A bit of a heath robinson affair using the bit of liner I had leftover, but it does the job of vistually linking the two together. The water level is the same as the first pond and there is a little cascade into the second pond, mainly just to get the sound of running water. Once the planting gets going you will barely see this one, hopefully it will just give the illusion of it being one long stretch of water.
The 'waterfall' will no doubt need some fiddling, it works well enough with a trickle from the hospipe, have ordered a Solaray 1550LPH with battery backup solar pump. Time will tell if it does the job or not. But as I say its for the sound rather than to see it. will fill this little pool with pebbles and hopefully the birds will use this one rather than disturbing the shallow area of the bigger pond Probably not the most glamorous waterfall in history
Would you believe... the plumber came out ten minutes after the phone call, on a Sunday teatime, and charged less than £50 for nearly three hours work!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Added the little header pond today. A bit of a heath robinson affair using the bit of liner I had leftover, but it does the job of vistually linking the two together. The water level is the same as the first pond and there is a little cascade into the second pond, mainly just to get the sound of running water. Once the planting gets going you will barely see this one, hopefully it will just give the illusion of it being one long stretch of water.
The 'waterfall' will no doubt need some fiddling, it works well enough with a trickle from the hospipe, have ordered a Solaray 1550LPH with battery backup solar pump. Time will tell if it does the job or not. But as I say its for the sound rather than to see it. will fill this little pool with pebbles and hopefully the birds will use this one rather than disturbing the shallow area of the bigger pond
Probably not the most glamorous waterfall in history
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.