How to recreate this gorgeous pond

[SuddenlyOld]

Saw this in our local garden centre. I love it but I'm not sure how it's made. Where would the liner go? What if it rains heavily - would it flood?

I think it perhaps has a bowl dug out below the waterfall with the liner extending as far as the water's edge. The pebbles would extend further than the liner so if it rains water would sink into the ground.

What do you think?

Ask the garden centre?

Of course, why didn't I think of that.

My DH keeps looking on Youtube, they have loads of them

If you make it use Scottish pebbles in different sizes they look fabulous when wet.
It looks like a wildlife pond, so will likely (almost dry out in the summer, as it should as lots of wildlife need the boggy mud under the pebbles and in the silt for their life stages.

Where the LIllies are under the waterfall I recon that's about 1m deep (that would suit the LIllies and cover the pots when the water drops in Summer) and then a shallow slope outwards.

Thank you, good advice. I'm hoping to get frogs to eat the slugs so definitely a wildlife pond. I would want the waterfall to be more of a trickle I think.

It's more about the kind of hole I'd need and how to line it. I can see how the wall and pump/waterfall are done - It's more the liner

So yes I can check on you tube too thank you

@SuddenlyOld After discovering a frog in my garden in Spring, I made a temporary pond in a tub with a few aquatic plants, but I want to build something similar to your suggested pond this winter, ready for next early Spring.

Things I've learned is if you want frogs it needs to be a metre deep in the very middle so they can hibernate deep. They like still water so won't take up residence or lay spawn with moving waterfalls, pumps etc. They also don't mix with fish. Its one type of pond or another, fish OR frogs/toads/newts. The right aquatic underwater plants keep the water fairly clear without pumps. It's good to have a gradual pebble bank like your picture, so any wildlife that falls in, can easily get out.

I saved this blog for inspiration. Learning as I go. Happy ponding! https://www.harebellandbee.co.uk/blog/how-i-made-our-small-wildlife-pond

Yes, why didn't you?

They built it and would know exactly what materials you'd need.

But hey, let's just be sarcastic.

Or Why not make rude, dismissive, presumptuous comments instead of contributing something useful to a post?

Hi thanks for the tips, I have built frog ponds many times, mainly to keep slugs down. I learned the hard way about fish - the fish ate the spawn and the herons ate the fish!

I'm just trying to work out how this one is configured. I found a similar one on you tube which I can adapt.

I probably won't add a bridge though, don't want any trolls moving in.

@SuddenlyOld Ok, I'm preaching to the converted, and you know more about frogs (and friends) than I do. I don't need frogs to keep slugs down, I've got plenty of Hedgehogs... and so on.