Building a Pond...
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Building a Concrete Pond
Although concrete is now less commonly used to build ponds than it once was and certainly makes more demands on the builder than the alternatives, it does have some...
Building an Ornamental Canal for Your Pond
There is nothing quite like having moving water in the garden and while many pond-owners opt for fountains or waterfalls, ornamental canals offer...
Digging Your 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...
Edging Your Pond
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...
Famous Garden Ponds and Visitor Attractions
While there’s nothing quite like having your own garden pond, a visit to some of the water features to be found in various visitor attractions...
Fish Pond or Water Garden?
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...
Fitting and Filling a Liner
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...
Flexible Pond Liners
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...
How Well Do You Know the World's Famous Water Features?
On a planet more than 70 per cent covered in water, it’s hardly surprising that there are more than a few famous water features dotted across the...
Making a Bog Garden
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...
Miniature Ponds for Patios and Small Spaces
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...
Perfect Plants for the Pond Edge
Planting makes any pond come alive and nowhere is a good scheme more effective than around the edge, to help blur the transition from water to dry land and...
Picking the Right Pump
Nothing livens up the pond – or the whole garden, for that matter – quite so much as a little moving water. Whether you are planning to add a fountain or waterfall,...
Planning the Pond for All Ability Access
Everyone likes a pond, but unfortunately when it comes to many traditional approaches to water garden design, not everybody finds it just so easy...
Pre-Formed Pond Liners
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...
Raised Ponds
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...
Siting Your Pond
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...
Sizing Your Pond
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...
Solar Powered Water Features
There’s an obvious fit between all kinds of gardening and the environment – and nowhere is this potential more apparent than when it comes to ponds. It’s little...
The Microbes in Your Pond
If you’ve ever looked down a microscope at a drop of pond water, you understand what people say about it teeming with life – and if you’ve ever wondered what all the...
Water features for backyard gardens
It’s not only large gardens that can enjoy the benefit of water features and although those of us with more modest backyards may have to do a little scaling down to...
