That's really good, you'd never know there are a lot of water features hidden below that snow. Where I live (just south of London, UK), we get snow for a few days every year, but being in a valley we do get quite hard frosts. We live in the most wooded county in the UK and lots of deer try and get in the garden. We manage to keep them out although the gate is often left open by the kids so no doubt there is a secret visitor at night
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Anyhow these are some 5yr old images of my pond build when it all started, when I replaced the butyl liner with fibreglass jobs. I'll update it with what it looks like now - some of the ideas were successful and some not so.
The gate at the front - the kids were small then and we didn't think they should go swimming
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My daughter Emma's pond, for amphibians. The giant Hosta on the right, it's lovely.
View over Emma's pond from the other side, towards what remained at the time of the butyl lining.
Clearing the butyl away. First pond at this house, too shallow, badly filtered etc
The retaining wall behind the pond area. We had a car pad built at the top and the excess soil was
put behind this retaining wall and a pond built. Great use of space but the soil is clay and pretty poor,
so grass has always been a problem. So time to stop the problem and do something else now.
The new pond I put in, 3500l fibreglass.
Both in
Different angle. This shows the path I'm taking out and replacing with a stream + tubs (on the
bottom right). The path in will instead be through the side of where that bench is - the fencing
there is gone now.
The grass jetty at the front. Didn't work, now a circular slab. But shows the aeration I have going,
Which has been a complete godsend and looks nice too
Looking across after cosmetics put in. I love ferns and upside down tree roots.
Low evergreen at back, works real well to hide edge.
Emma's frogpond with a bit of planting.
Different angle - I still have those carnivorous plants and want to put them in their own special tub now
The bog garden to the left of the main pond. When it overflows it goes into the bog garden.
Lined at the bottom with all the old butyl.
An upturned root at the pond gate. Because I like it. Red Cordelia failed.
Looking back across. Annoyingly those little groundcover creepers never amounted to much,
my fault as they didn't get enough water.
Looking back across - with bucket of watercress in front to bind nitrites.
Looking down at the lillies I had then, which never liked the moving water so failed.
All in all this is a small corner of the garden, I'd say about 6x6m, and was on a slope when we
moved here almost 20yr ago. But it's now the nicest part of the garden (well I would say that
although she who must be obeyed would probably disagree) and does show what you can cram
into a small space. Small has the advantage that the costs aren't as astronomical so I've used
good stuff generally. For example it's a 3500l pond but has filtration for 6000l.
But obviously this was 5 years ago, I'll update it with now shots at the weekend after I finish
some of the other chores than need doing
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