Ha, ha Pete, that really made me smile and I am sure others too. This is your typical 60's pond side ornament and I am sure that there are many around the English garden pond still.
We have a large ornamental frog and my mother bought us a wooden duck which is still floating on the water in our tiny pond. These didn't deter the heron from swooping down to collect a few live frogs over the years though.
I too will be following your thread, as I would like to get a pond, maybe next year.......interesting to follow this process from the very start. Please keep up updated with what you do.
If your ground's like concrete ZZero - it might be better to wait till you get a decent spell of rain to soften it up a bit. It's soul destroying to try and dig out an exact hole, which is what you'll need. Bad enough if it's for a liner, and you can be more free and easy with the shape
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Mary370 We abandoned our pre formed one, just couldn’t get the contours right, nearly came to divorce 😀. Liner is so much cheaper and easier , you can shape the sides how you want them to make margins for pots to sit on, also easier for creatures to get out of as you can make a shallow beach end.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
My dad put in a pre-formed, formal pond many moons ago. The instructions said "Just dig a hole and drop it in!" That became a family saying, brought out whenever things proved not to be quite as simple as expected...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Bad enough if it's for a liner, and you can be more free and easy with the shape
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...