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Preformed pond liners

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    They always advise to make a pond at least twice as large as you were planning. Then add a bit.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Exactly,  I wish ours was bigger.  It’s filled with plants that would really fill a much bigger space.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Fire said:
    They always advise to make a pond at least twice as large as you were planning. Then add a bit.

    Same as greenhouses then? :D
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I wish I had proper space for both.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2022
    B, can I hop on your thread? I have just put in a large window box pond at the front - about 40cm deep. Can anyone recommend evergreen, floofy water plants I can put in the box to fall over and cover the edges? At the moment it looks like a window box in a bed. (Cheap option with bricks in for experimentation).
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    I don't think there are many small, evergreen, trailing plants out there. Creeping jenny would work and perhaps fibre optic grass (Scirpus cernuus) which is very floppy. You can probably get away with this as well where you are https://www.lilieswatergardens.co.uk/myriophyllum-red-stemmed-parrots-feather-bunched-not-proserpinacoides-p-918.html
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Thanks. How do people manage cover for the edges of their plastic ponds through winter? I'd like the edges to not be visible.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    As @thevictorian says, creeping jenny will work well.  There is a yellow form.  It is evergreen ( or everyellow) and whilst it will spread, it is easy enough to pull up and keep in check. It's always worked well on the edges of my ponds and softens the edges nicely whilst offering an easy  entrance/exit.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I wouldn't even put creeping Jenny on the compost heap. It can be a real pest in some gardens.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    No different from several other plants in reality  ;)  Depends what you want, what you want it to do and whether you are prepared to be strict with it. I find it useful in places - one of which is pond edging. 
    As always. each to their own :D  
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