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Yorkstone ok in the pond?

Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
in Wildlife gardening

I'm finally hoping to get round to finishing off my wildlife pond over the next couple of months.
In order to prove somewhere for the wildlife to get in and out I was planning on getting a load of yorkstone and placing it on the shelves within the pond then continue with the yorkstone out of the pond with a little rockery and a gravel beach leading to the edge.
Is yorkstone safe to use in the pond?

Thanks

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Billericay - Essex

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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    Yes it should be safe enough. I have sandstone round my pond and never had a problem.

    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Thanks.
    Good idea pansy - I'll get some underfelt


    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • The_herpetologistThe_herpetologist Posts: 481

    Yes, it should be fine. I have had it round my pond for a few years, makes a great hideaway for frogs and newts.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    ThanksThh.
    I'll have to temporarily evict the frog that has taken up residence, but hope it returns when it sees what a nice job I've done :)


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • MarineliliumMarinelilium Posts: 213

    Trying coir matting as the edging cover on my new wildlife pond - so little claws can clamber in and out of the water. Also hoping any tannins have leached out by soaking it first. It soaks up water and wicks it into the u-shaped butyl overlap that is the bog garden edge. I have  sprinkled seeds and soil mix into the exposed coir then added rocks and a gravel beach.

    Log pile at one end and a York Stone paver, as a bird bath shelf, at the other. if York stone leaches out anything nasty I would be keen to know too.

    MLx

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Good idea about the coir - I'll look into it

    Thanks


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • MarineliliumMarinelilium Posts: 213

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    Just a heads up Pete8 about the coir mat to cover pond liner; at least four species of bird made off like bandits with the coir leaving exposed liner. Next door's cat brought this nest down - that a female blackbird worked so hard to make. She is now making another nest and  recycling this one.  I even put spare coir in the shrubs for the nesters but they preferred the pond edging?!?

    I suppose it worked for the wildlife - if not for the pond : /

    MLx

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Yes blackbirds around here like coir matting for their nests ... I've watched one totally decimating a liner in a wrought iron manger-type planting basket on the wall of a building nearby.

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  • MarineliliumMarinelilium Posts: 213

    Oh mangers would be just perfect for these raiders. Blackbird flies off looking like she's grown a handlebar moustache. Greenfinches, blue tits and long tailed tits are a bit more discreet about the amount they stuff in their beaks but they make lots more visits.

    I will have to use stones to protect liner from UV. Coir seemed like a good idea to help creatures get out of the pond so might use it with gravel on the edges. Live and learn!

    MLx

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Love it image bless 'em

    I brush my dog outside and I watched the other day as one bluetit gathered hairs into little piles and his/her mate picked it up and carried it off. They repeated the process for quite a while - good team work

    The pond is still w.i.p. The plants I put in (kindly suggested by Dove) haven't done much except the thingy (with little blue flowers) which is doing ok. It's been so cold. The hornwort looks as if it needs replacing. At least it's warming up at last so I'll see how it goes. Still deep green but I can almost see the shelf now.

    I need to get stuff planted around it as it just bare soil everywhere atm as it's all completely new and arid at the mo. There aint enough hours in the day..

    I still plan on yorkstone and I hope to be able to set 1 or 2 big ones on a shelf which will provide escape/entry and have a little gravel beach with a gentle trickle of water


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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