Ryan as another suggestion- grasses are great pondside plants and easy to get at GCs, nurseries and B&Q. The Carexes (sedges) are largely evergreen (all evergreen I think) and come in golds,greens and browns and variegated forms so they they're good for brightening up a shady area. Easy to keep. I've got 'Evergold' in pots and I'll put a pic on so you can get the idea. There are bigger grasses too which look the part - Miscanthus is popular and again you'll get lots of varieties to choose from in GCs - they vary in height and have tall flowering spikes. They give movement- not evergreen though.I'm sure you'll have seen them. I can't enlarge Scott's pic above but the gold/green grass on the right of his pic looks like a Carex type. Bowles Golden Grass is also another good one- Millium effusum 'Aureum' is it's posh name though not evergreen. Good bright yellowy/green flat arching leaves. There's a huge variety so again, maybe you want to do a search online! All these are hardy too.
Scott- no wonder you needed another pond- that's a hell of a size of a frog you've got.....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
John - I don't suppose you could direct me to your thread about ponds please? And am also glad someone has bought the same product as me, was it satisfactory? Have you had any time to take a new photo of what the pond looks like now, as I would love something to aspire to
Fairy - Thankyou for all the info, will defintiely look into oxygenators and will have a look about wildlife ponds online too.
Marshmello - Thankyou too for all the info, I shall be planting a Hawthorn hedge near to the pond and a few Delphiniums then, as the hole I have made for it to go in is in full sun. And I know it's a bit small, but the downside is I will have to wait until christmas to get a larger one, so I think I'll stick with this one for now and see how I go, possibly buy a considerably larger one in the near future.
Yes, you can buy bigger at a later date. Good luck with your pond.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ryan as another suggestion- grasses are great pondside plants and easy to get at GCs, nurseries and B&Q. The Carexes (sedges) are largely evergreen (all evergreen I think) and come in golds,greens and browns and variegated forms so they they're good for brightening up a shady area. Easy to keep. I've got 'Evergold' in pots and I'll put a pic on so you can get the idea. There are bigger grasses too which look the part - Miscanthus is popular and again you'll get lots of varieties to choose from in GCs - they vary in height and have tall flowering spikes. They give movement- not evergreen though.I'm sure you'll have seen them. I can't enlarge Scott's pic above but the gold/green grass on the right of his pic looks like a Carex type. Bowles Golden Grass is also another good one- Millium effusum 'Aureum' is it's posh name though not evergreen. Good bright yellowy/green flat arching leaves. There's a huge variety so again, maybe you want to do a search online! All these are hardy too.
Scott- no wonder you needed another pond- that's a hell of a size of a frog you've got.....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes, you can buy bigger at a later date. Good luck with your pond.