When the garden was being renovated and the pond excavated it was necessary afterwards to do quite a lot of returfing. The liner stretched about 8” beyond the edge of the pond and the turf was dropped on top. Unfortunately the pond did not have a gently sloping edge, a feature I much admire in your lovely pond Guernsey Donkey, so I have had to make a bird bathing station/hedgehog escape route with some artfully placed ironstone rocks and slabs.
Habitat_Aid, this looks sensational, I have never seen anything like it - I wonder if the plants will continue to look so healthy after a few months if they have nothing further to root into, at the end of our pond we have approx 6 inches of pond liner overlapping the edge of our pond and weighted down with the heavy granite stones and then smaller pebbles. If only we could start again I would try to incorporate this coir matting.
Guernsey Donkey2 the coir is the only growing medium the plants need... they were originally developed for stabilising riverbanks but do well over butyl liners...
I wonder if something like that would work for the back of our pond. We've got quite a small depth of planting space behind our rock lining, and although we've got a nice carex evergold and some creeping jenny successfully growing there now, it gets full of grass later in the season and because of the position it's very hard to manage.
I really like the sound of those coir mats but are they a permanent solution - will the plants eventually establish into the soil underneath etc? And what about the ones that sit over liner and not in the water? If the coir eventually rots down, where do they root to? Obviously we'd need to remove the rocks from the back of the pond area, but they're not fixed down so that's not a problem. The area is blasted by full sun in the summer so gets quite dry, would that be an issue?
Thanks Habitat_Aid for clarifying some of my concerns. I am very interested to use it depending on the cost and wonder if anyone can answer Lucid's questions, who has raised some interesting points. Your pond is lovely Lucid, very similar to ours but on a smaller, more intimate style, with beach, surrounding rocks and a trellis fence close by.
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Oh coir mats interesting....Who sells them? :
Look forward to seeing it when it is finished .
I really like the sound of those coir mats but are they a permanent solution - will the plants eventually establish into the soil underneath etc? And what about the ones that sit over liner and not in the water? If the coir eventually rots down, where do they root to? Obviously we'd need to remove the rocks from the back of the pond area, but they're not fixed down so that's not a problem. The area is blasted by full sun in the summer so gets quite dry, would that be an issue?
Lucid