Garden Pictures Pictures by bonkersbon (105 photos)

Ha ha ha - Oh wonderful! At least my ducks waited until the pond was finished! You look to have two ponds there, Bonkers, are you planning something special like a waterfall between the two? Or is one to be a bog-garden?

Plans change almost every day! needed to build a retaining wall to ensure depth as site slopes so water was going to end up filling one end before other.So yes aim to have a stone that water can cascade over into second pool.Will pump water back into first pool and have a pebble beach effect.Would like a bog garden but really apprehensive as liner needs to be split cost so much Sid terrified of making mistake I cant rectify. Tomorrow be using liner off cuts to stand stone walls on in pond to hide liner.Jane would like a rockery feature with water cascading down steps into first pool. She read somewhere that someone had suggested that I use the rocks I d dug up as a feature.Wonder who that was ? must thank them !

Looks like you've got some new neighbors...!

your ideas sound great - can't wait to see how it turns out! When you say you're going to split the liner, I understand this is nec in a bog garden - but will the bog garden be attached to the pond? If so, then you need to make sure that the water from teh pond does not drain into the pond - i.e. there must be a barrier of some kind, otherwise your water will drain away......I can understand the apprehension! Sarah.

Hi Sarah yes there is a barrier that bit you can see in the middle serves 2 purposes.It allows a deeper pond area to be seperated from shallower bog garden esp as on slope no matter how deep I dug water would still level to shallowest point.It will also act as an overflow that will stop when water level drops.Got a lovely piece of cornish slate with red veins in ,that water will flow over .Jane out buying water lily water hawthorn grasses etc
.Big test for pond tonight thunderstorm and heavy rain does appear to be filling rather quickly!

The slate sounds wonderful :-)