Some of these sound quite grand! I'm so excited now I've ordered my little pond liner,the garden is long and narrow,so restricted on size,they've said my oxygenating plants will be here Monday,so fingers crossed for the forecast thunderstorm tomorrow,so I can keep them in rainwater till the pond is ready for them! (Strictly wildlife)
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Thanks @Fire, @Fairygirl, @Ruby12 and @Guernsey Donkey2. @Dovefromabove one of those unappealing jobs that will be fine once you get going. Loppers and a pruning saw usually make short work of them. @Valley Gardener ooh how exciting, hope you are going to keep us updated with pics as you go?
@Jellyfire ... when we first dug the pond we had builders here working on the house ... they used an angle grinder to get through some big ash tree roots for us ... and the pond is shallow 'cos they weren't prepared to tackle the even bigger ones (think 'wrestlers' thighs') ... there's a layer of solid chalk very close to the surface here so even big the tree roots tend to go horizontally The shape of our pond was dictated by the roots ...
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Advice needed.........please! My pond plants have arrived much earlier than said,so they are going to have to be kept alive until the pond liner arrives Friday! Let's hope that won't be later than advised.
So far I have sent hubby to get Hessian and baskets, and put the plants in bottled spring water. ( not tap ) with a polyethylene bag over them loosely tied.
Is this the correct way to go about this? Or is there anymore I can do? I'm very pleased with the way they look,lots of new growth etc. I've put them in the coolest darkest place in the house.
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When I got mine I just left them in buckets of tap water outside for about two weeks until the pond settled, didnt seem to do them any harm at all
@Valley Gardener is it going to be a wildlife pond or will you have fish? A lot of the reading about not using tap water is in relation to keeping fish really. I think you probably have wetter weather than us, but it took me 9 hours to fill my pond using the hosepipe, if I waited for it to fill with rainwater Id be waiting about 5 years! I appreciate yours is smaller, but I would personally just chuck the hospipe in, and then wait at least 24 hours for any chlorine to dissipate before getting the plants in. Judging by the plant growth and wildlife that has moved in, the tapwater, along with a good few top-ups dont seem to have done any harm whatsoever
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@Valley Gardener ooh how exciting, hope you are going to keep us updated with pics as you go?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My pond plants have arrived much earlier than said,so they are going to have to be kept alive until the pond liner arrives Friday! Let's hope that won't be later than advised.
So far I have sent hubby to get Hessian and baskets, and put the plants in bottled spring water. ( not tap ) with a polyethylene bag over them loosely tied.
Is this the correct way to go about this? Or is there anymore I can do? I'm very pleased with the way they look,lots of new growth etc. I've put them in the coolest darkest place in the house.
@Valley Gardener is it going to be a wildlife pond or will you have fish? A lot of the reading about not using tap water is in relation to keeping fish really. I think you probably have wetter weather than us, but it took me 9 hours to fill my pond using the hosepipe, if I waited for it to fill with rainwater Id be waiting about 5 years! I appreciate yours is smaller, but I would personally just chuck the hospipe in, and then wait at least 24 hours for any chlorine to dissipate before getting the plants in. Judging by the plant growth and wildlife that has moved in, the tapwater, along with a good few top-ups dont seem to have done any harm whatsoever
and all for a couple of quid or so!!
I'm getting excited about frogs and stuff!!!!😁