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Pond in a pot

michelle.welchmichelle.welch Posts: 4
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I have read about creating a small pond in a pot, just wondering if anyone has done this? As I would like to introduce water in to my small garden. 

I can get a CAPI bowl style pot from dobbies without holes, but it is very expensive. >£100

If I was to purchase a pot with holes, how do I block the holes or is it easier to line with pond liner? 

Do you just put the liner in the pot fill and cut round the edges? 

Also random and possibly a bit of a stupid question … if I buy Capi pot I am concerned it will take the strain of the weight of water. Does water weigh the same as compost? 

Many thanks in advance 😀

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  • Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,134
    I've tried lining a pot with a hole, but unfortunately it eventually leaked no matter what I tried--plugging the hole, sealant, double lining, everything... On the other hand you might succeed where I failed!
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Try going on Amazon look for whitefurze planter get the biggest, about £10. They don’t have holes and I have used one as a water feature with a little solar fountain for 3 years. No issues. Not the prettiest but you could put other smaller pots around it. 
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184

    I think they do a bigger one too. 
  • michelle.welchmichelle.welch Posts: 4
    Thankyou, I have a love of water Lilly’s,  not that I have ever grown them. But fancy a challenge. £10 sounds much better than >£100 as a starter 

  • michelle.welchmichelle.welch Posts: 4
    Cambridgerose12 said:
    I've tried lining a pot with a hole, but unfortunately it eventually leaked no matter what I tried--plugging the hole, sealant, double lining, everything... On the other hand you might succeed where I failed!
    Ok so it sounds like a pot with no holes is the best place to start. Thankyou for responding x 
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Also, I think you will need to look at buying a pygmy/dwarf water lilly for a pot.
  • michelle.welchmichelle.welch Posts: 4
    There seems to be miniature water Lilly’s on eBay. 

    What is the best way to make a ramp/ steps? A series of rocks? 
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Bits of brick, old slabs or rock will do. 
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    michelle.welch said:
     Does water weigh the same as compost? 


    No.   water  density is 1kg per litre.

    Sand and stones sink in water so must be more dense.  But it will depend on how much water and air is in your compost.  A well-drained moist compost might be lighter.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • davwensumdavwensum Posts: 19
    During lockdown we bought 2 half whisky barrels. We’ve got miniature lillies in both neither have flowered yet though. At the back are miniature bulrushes for some height. I think they were around £50 each and don’t leak as the wood swells. They were sold as water features.
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