There have been a few posts lately about pond edges, and I was reviewing some old pictures how I did mine. I tried to keep a photographic record of these things, but not all the pictures I took were from the same angle or necessarily focusing on the edge of the pond, so they are what they are, however most of the pictures do show the back edge of the pond with the back wall behind it. In between the pond edge and the wall I was trying to leave a small strip of dirt where I could plant some terrestrial plants, specifically a vine plant to grow up the wall.(which still isn't grown in the way I want it) Hard to see in the pictures, but it is there.
You may also note I tied to transition of rock type. On the right side around the waterfall there is irregular shaped rock from a mountain slide a couple blocks from our house. It is typical of the rock we have all around the mountains in the narrow valley where we live. I also wanted to incorporate some river rock in the pond to, and so I put that on the left side of the pond and on the left side wall. To make it so there wasn't a huge contrast between the two types of rock I carefully selected transition rocks that went from the rough irregular rocks on the right and gradually transitioned to the smoother river rocks on the left. (most of which are hidden by the plants in the last picture)
Anyway, that's how I did mine. The key things I focused on was getting the water level just right, and hiding the liner below the water level.
Left side
You may also note I tied to transition of rock type. On the right side around the waterfall there is irregular shaped rock from a mountain slide a couple blocks from our house. It is typical of the rock we have all around the mountains in the narrow valley where we live. I also wanted to incorporate some river rock in the pond to, and so I put that on the left side of the pond and on the left side wall. To make it so there wasn't a huge contrast between the two types of rock I carefully selected transition rocks that went from the rough irregular rocks on the right and gradually transitioned to the smoother river rocks on the left. (most of which are hidden by the plants in the last picture)
Anyway, that's how I did mine. The key things I focused on was getting the water level just right, and hiding the liner below the water level.
Left side