Building a Pond

When it comes to adding a water feature to your garden, whether you opt for a pre-formed shape or indulge your own creativity with a liner and no matter what end result is intended – wildlife haven, ...

With the hole dug, the pond itself installed and the bulk of the physical labour behind you, edging the pond marks the start of a rather more “artistic” phase in the project. Since the edging you ...

While it is probably fair to say that any pond-feature in a garden could be called a water garden, not every water garden provides a home for fish, although “water garden” and “fish pond” are used ...

Fitting the liner is the moment when the pond is born; before this all you really have is a hole in the ground; after it, you have something which will hold water – with all the future promise that ...

Of all of the ways to build your own pond using a flexible liner gives you the most freedom to decide its eventual depth, shape and contour allowing you to tailor the finished pond exactly as you ...

A well stocked bog garden makes a natural partner for any pond, enabling a far greater variety of plants to be grown around the water than narrow marginal shelves could ever allow. Though in some ...

Often the usual route to bring the feel and – most importantly – sound of moving water into the small garden or patio is to opt for a bubble feature, pebble bowl or self-contained wall fountain. It ...

Any pond is only as good as its liner. In the end how well the pond holds water – and how long it lasts – really all comes down to the material used to line it in the first place. Although concrete ...

Raised ponds are probably the least well known of all the many styles of water features which is a shame, since they have much to offer – often to gardens which for one reason or another, are ...

Picking the right site is probably more important for the pond than for any other feature in the garden – after all you are hardly going to move it next year if it does badly. Some of the older books ...

Once you have settled on where to site your pond the only remaining thing is to decide how big to make it. While the size of the available space – and the overall look of the garden – can impose ...