Tag Archives for Garden Pond
Encouraging Wildlife into Your Garden Pond
In a balanced garden there should be a stable food chain of prey and predator. For example, destroying all of the greenfly in a garden will deprive ladybirds and blue tits of food. And a garden without any slugs at … Continue reading
Flexible UPVC Liners for Garden Ponds
These are basically lengths of waterproof sheeting, enabling you to build a pond of any shape or size. More planning is required for this type of pond, and calculating the amount of liner you need is not always easy. This … Continue reading
How to Install a Rigid Pond Liner
With this type of pond, the hole into which the unit will sit is crucially important. If your chosen pond is a regular or symmetrically shaped unit (square, circle, rectangle, oval, etc.), turn it upside down, and position it so … Continue reading
Building a Garden Pond and Choosing the Right Materials
Ponds need to be watertight and, within reason, it does not matter how this is achieved. When it comes to the material used to form the base and sides of your pond, there are three main options: 1. Preformed rigid … Continue reading
Garden Pond Styles
A small water feature could be a pebble fountain or a half-barrel with a trickling urn, both of which are ideal accompaniments to a tiny town garden or patio area. Garden ponds, perhaps 1-2m (3-6ft) across, are what most gardeners … Continue reading
Garden Ponds: Assessing Your Garden
Existing features Your garden is unique in the opportunities that it has to offer and the constraints that it might impose. So before you install your water feature, you should assess what features are already there, and how they might … Continue reading
Planting Around Your Garden Pool
The sight and sound of running water can be psychologically as well as physically cooling. Falling water helps to stimulate water movement, dissipating harmful gases and forcing some oxygenation of the water. Trees should not be planted too close to … Continue reading
Oxygenating Plants for the Garden Pond
Too often what could have been a beautiful pond becomes a stagnant puddle of evil smelling green water. The reasons are not too difficult to discover. Usually this sad state of affairs is due to a combination of factors: insufficient … Continue reading
Choosing Ferns for the Garden Pond
Although in nature ferns flourish in shady positions this has more to do with moisture conservation and ferns will do well in positions exposed to full sunlight, provided that sufficient moisture can be guaranteed. Contrary to popular belief they do … Continue reading
Types of Iris for the Water Garden Pond
Irises are available in such variety that some gardeners have made them a major feature of their water garden and concentrated their efforts on collecting a wide range of subjects. It is little wonder that this handsome plant has caught … Continue reading