Hi All
Just new to the pond scene and just looking for a little advice.
We have just built the following pond in our back garden. (Please ignore the silly solar powered water feature )
The small pond is fed from a pool that is within the trees you can just see the small opening, then the small pond feeds the larger pond. We had to put in a temporary secondary pump, you can see the black hose in the picture as the original pump is faulty.
Just for a little scaling the bridge in the picture is around 2 meters long and just under a meter wide.
The big pond goes from shallow (under the bridge) to deep it also has shelves all around the pond at varying depths.
As you can see the pond looks very basic and lifeless, so I am now looking for advice on how to make it look more natural using surface, submerged and shelving plants, eventually we will have fish but I want to get the feel and plants correct first.
What are recommendations, any and all are appreciated as this is the first pond we have had. Any other advice is appreciated aswell.
Cheers
Dougie
Just new to the pond scene and just looking for a little advice.
We have just built the following pond in our back garden. (Please ignore the silly solar powered water feature )
The small pond is fed from a pool that is within the trees you can just see the small opening, then the small pond feeds the larger pond. We had to put in a temporary secondary pump, you can see the black hose in the picture as the original pump is faulty.
Just for a little scaling the bridge in the picture is around 2 meters long and just under a meter wide.
The big pond goes from shallow (under the bridge) to deep it also has shelves all around the pond at varying depths.
As you can see the pond looks very basic and lifeless, so I am now looking for advice on how to make it look more natural using surface, submerged and shelving plants, eventually we will have fish but I want to get the feel and plants correct first.
What are recommendations, any and all are appreciated as this is the first pond we have had. Any other advice is appreciated aswell.
Cheers
Dougie