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Creating a pond in garden

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  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    zugenie said:
    I presume there will be a photo of you laying on your side by the pond at some point?
    Oh absolutely! A GWForum first perhaps? 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Maybe that should be the challenge of the year - photos of everyone lying by their pond please...
  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    TheGreenMan said:
    zugenie said:
    I presume there will be a photo of you laying on your side by the pond at some point?
    Oh absolutely! A GWForum first perhaps? 

    TheGreenMan said:
    zugenie said:
    Woohoo! I’m looking forward to seeing this!
    I wanted to dig it all out today but I had to do other things apparently like eat and bathe 😂
    Psh, both those things are overrated 😆 I was supposed to line mine on friday but couldn’t wait and did it thursday evening instead!!

    What a treat that will be for us 😆
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited April 2022
    This is a vid by wildlife gardener Joel Ashton. He builds them professionally. Thought it might be useful. It looks bare, but cover will grow over time.

    I believe @Jellyfire has an excellent pond.


  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Looking forward to see how it progresses @TheGreenMan, you won’t regret it, although you might regret how obsessed you become with it! 

    Here is my thread about building mine that @Fire kindly mentioned https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1011306/building-a-wildlife-pond/p1
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    Hi, if you haven't dug it yet then I would consider going a little deeper than 2ft tbh. I say that because if you wanted a lily for instance then putting it in a pot will raise it closer to the water level and not give much height for it, you then get them bursting out of the surface rather than delicately lying on it . You also have to consider that if we get a drought the water level can drop further. Our wildlife pond has the downpipes from our garage plumbed so that it fills when it rains (one side goes straight into the pond, the other into 2x300 l water butts first). The overflow then fills the boggy area next to it. 
    2ft is a good minimum depth but a few extra inches can help if we get a really cold winter and the pond is mostly shallow.
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    I’d agree with that as well. Generally a shallow pond is great for wildlife, and 2ft is ample, but in practical terms during the heat of summer evaporation can make the level drop surprisingly quickly, and the detritus on the bottom also builds up to a few inches after a couple of years. 
    Having a deeper area of say 3ft certainly helps when it does, and as @thevictorian says is much better if you want a lily in there. If you haven’t lined it yet I’d certainly consider it. Equally If you have then I wouldn’t worry about it 
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Fire said:
    This is a vid by wildlife gardener Joel Ashton. He builds them professionally. Thought it might be useful. It looks bare, but cover will grow over time.

    I believe @Jellyfire has an excellent pond.



    Thanks @fire
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Jellyfire said:
    Looking forward to see how it progresses @TheGreenMan, you won’t regret it, although you might regret how obsessed you become with it! 

    Here is my thread about building mine that @Fire kindly mentioned https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1011306/building-a-wildlife-pond/p1

    Wow!

    I saw this when I got up this morning and read it all before I'd even had my first coffee.

    You've inspired me.  I may go bigger...... :D
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957

    I haven't actually started digging it out yet.  I was waiting to get my driving test out of the way as I always end up with a bad shoulder/neck/arm when I get the spade/mattock out.

    I'll be doing it this weekend so thanks for the tips.  I was looking out at it this morning and I actually thought about going deeper so you've confirmed my theory that it would be better.

    I notice that @jellyfire and @zugenie both said that the liner calculator gave you a lot more than you needed.  Which one/company did you both use?

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