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Building a wildlife pond

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  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    @Valley Gardener edited my comment above in case you missed it. It IS exciting! But its also a lot less difficult than you may think. Its basically a case of digging a hole, lining it and filling it with water!
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    A neighbour has just delivered my pond liner,it was delivered today to the right number,but wrong street!  The delivery dates have all been up the creek,sooo excited,digging the hole tomorrow!! Now my plants won't have to wait so long!
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  • PenninePJPenninePJ Posts: 23
    edited July 2018
    Looks like it is coming along very nicely; just one tip from me ..... be certain it is as large as you will really want. There are lots of pond builders who wished they had dug a bigger hole (yes that was me in 1990!)
    Good luck
    Check https://catsandapenninegarden.blogspot.com/ for a few more tips
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    I would have liked a bigger one,but the garden size has dictated how big......or not as the case may be. 
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  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Great stuff @Valley Gardener, now for the exciting part! 

    Lovely ponds @PenninePJ, been browsing your blog, great reading 
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    A cooler day today so we finally got our pond in situ.
    I'm really pleased with it,yesterday I got three different pond plants and a couple of snails to start so needed to get water in the pond. I wish I was able to post pics! I've put an old tree root sort of half across it,and half on land for any creepy crawlies,and flattish rocks on the edges. I have an excess of lovely Welsh stone,so built a rockery up to the pond on one side. Now I just have some planting between rocks to do.
    The cats have been intrigued,and done circuits of the edges,and had a drink!!
    I will be so pleased to see anything making use of it.(other than my cats)
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  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    great stuff @Valley Gardener, I bet you will have some little beasties in there already if you look closely enough 
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    OH is peering in there every five minutes,the trouble at the moment is the snails are black and so is the liner!😁 and one of my cats is using my lovely old gnarled root as a scratchy post,
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  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Pond skaters and water boatmen are usually first to arrive, about 3 or 4 days I think it was before our first showed up
  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    I'm off to look now! It's been drizzling all morning so I haven't been out!😀
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