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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,038

    Hi fidget. yes the stream runs through the garden flowing from up on the moors. A little bit of the flow is directed into a pond and the pond outflow goes back into the stream.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    I'd love a stream. I have deepish holes with ground water that's about a metre higher in winter than it is in summer. There aren't many desirable water plants that can cope with that. Plenty of rushes, sedge and bullrushes though. Irises round the edge and comphrey and willowherb survive inundation. The newts are happy and so are the dragonflies



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,613

    I like the bit at Harlow Carr, where the stream runs through, surrounded by candelabra primulas. My attempts to recreate a semblance of that were a dismal failure.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Yes fb, I love HC. It wouldn't work here. I'm mostly happy to garden with what I've got, no hankering for acid lovers or alpine gems. But I'd love a good water garden



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    My last house had a natural spring which fed our ponds so when there was heavy rain the little waterfall into the main one was a torrent! There was a rill connecting to the second pond and a further one from that going out to the boundary and down the hill. The road was often like a river as well as we were on quite a steep hill. I definitely want a small pond here even if I don't stay. It's lovely for wildlife of all sorts.

    Punkdoc- have you posted pix of your pond here? It would be nice to see them. image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • GillyLGillyL Posts: 1,077

    First dry spell of the day,have just been out and picked the last of the conference pears ahead of the forcast winds at the end of the week.Huge crop,just trying to work out where to store them all image

  • Dry here ( Rochdale) at the moment, even some blue sky.  Just been down to the chooks and put some chipped bark on the wet bit of the pen. Happy chooks fresh food for the digging image. Just checking round still plenty in flower looks more like September really. Anyone noticed that?

    UW 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,038

    At the moment you cant really see the pond for the reeds. I will post new pictures when I have improved it. I think i have posted pictures of it before.

    I too like the stream at HC. I have planted Candelabra primula, astilbe, lythrum, rodgersia and iris chyrstographes in a boggy area adjacent to the pond. This area is usually flooded in winter and stays moist the rest of the year. It is only a small area, but it is one of my favourite bits of the garden, which i am always extending by removing more lawn

     

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    image It hasn't rained for 2 hrs, so deadheaded roses and the still flowering Cosmos purity, it's been great this year, will grow again next year. Off to make hayimage

  • Matty2Matty2 Posts: 4,817

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    No gadening but the rain seems to have held off. Had to see aged parent which was difficult, usually spell in garden afterwards helps but too wet today

     

    I love the idea of a pond and rills but and have toyed with the idea of putting one in, even a small one.

    I do have one in a galvanised bath tub but it isn't wild life friendly. 

    There is one area of garden which is blank at present, but overhung by large oak tree, that I have considered, but unsure if it would be successful?

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