Show me your ponds!

[Wannabefarmer]

Thanks to lockdown my garden is starting to look lovely. I would like to add a pond at some stage, can you please show me some pictures of your ponds so I can drool over them and plan my next ambitious project?

Is it for fish or wildlife?

Either!

We started mine a few weeks ago. It isn’t finished yet but it’s starting to get there. It’s a wildlife pond. No fish, no pump but we do have an aerator

That looks lovely. Ours is overgrown now and you can't see the water, still the frogs like it.

I don’t have one I’m afraid, but I would like one just like Justin of @designatnineteen on Instagram.

That’s gorgeous. I can’t believe you started only a few weeks ago. I haven’t room without digging up the grass but was thinking a half barrel one might be good. I am also wary with kids wandering about. Next doors children are big enough now.

Mine was my lockdown birthday request so I’ve had DH and the two teen DSs doing most of the heavy work and I’m now in my element prettifying it by adding plants. It may well bankrupt me though, the cost of pond plants is astronomical as I have a lot of pond surface to cover. It is rather larger than first planned - about 12m by 7m. We were lucky in that a few year ago we dug up an old stone patio and I never throw stuff like that away so we have been able to do all the edging with the stone and with various logs and tree stumps from the garden. We also had sand and old carpet so the only thing we’ve paid for is the liner (and some of the plants of course)

I’m pleased with how it’s going (although it’s clearly not an instant garden type thing, you have to work on it gradually). We already have frogs and toad in there and loads of insect life such as pond skaters, water boatmen, dragon fly larvae etc

Wow! Love the ponds! We’ve just dug ours, only 1 x 2m and not massively deep. Liner ordered and I have made a list of all the plants. So excited about it!