Water Gardening

Thanks Noisette. I think my pals are planning to restock but perhaps with less expensive fish just in case they attract unwanted visitors. They do not want to repeat being a carry out again, literally. I will pass on the info as I think they mentioned getting gold fish rather than Koi. Can you...

Many thanks for your help and advice.. Would these bugs be coming from other plants in our garden.. I will have a read up on water side nursery thanks

Hi can anyone give advice about our plants as they seem to have spots on them thanks

Hi look on my post about pond weed and on post I think number 4 is says about blog.. But no worries I looked on pond expert for advice about blanket weed and bought the items shown in last post.. I think it is keeping weed at bay but not getting rid of it all I have tried all of the products...

I'm not well up on filters these days, mine is just a box full of various filter mediums all just working on gravity.I have had my filter box over flow so I just fitted an over flow pipe to the top of the box and ran that back into the pond, I now know the filter needs cleaning when the...

Yeah the Monkeys used to have a song about that.

What's a W/I pond ?

Looks a good flow there Just make that outlet hose run on a more even downwards path, it looks rather horizontal , almost a bit upwards as it come out of the box, just helps reduce any back pressure, might reduce the drip.

Mine is only 20inches deep at the deepest point and the fish have overwintered without much trouble for the last30odd years.

Yeh, garden hose clears it 90%. Beasties crawl out when its dumped at the side then into the compost bin,sorted.

When I did something similar many years ago I used broken up paving to give me a basic base and you can see how it's going to look and move it about, when you're done you can cement pieces to give you a raised edge and cover the liner if that's what you're going to use, when it was done and...

Many thanks for your help and advice

I think that's why it' was banned from sale in 2014.

When we lived in Pebbles, Bexhill the terrain was very steep and we made a couple of wildlife ponds with a stream in between in the front garden that was bigger than the back one so could take it easily....I would use some rocks around yours to give it some different levels where you could also...

Thankyou for your replys With any garden that you want a wildlife pond in you have to decide on the size of pond. We have taken advice about depth of pond due to various reasons. How many critters you can have etc Preformed ponds has shelves but some are tiny small and large with the area we...

I had a raised pond built by my garage it started small but the fish grew so I had to make it a lot bigger, it was 12’ long 3’ wide and 4’ deep. It was easier to maintain and the kids could see the fish better, I still had herons but never needed a net we even gained 2 bream from somewhere, I...

I have a preformed pond and used rocks at one end to create a rocky ramp for anyone who falls in to clamber out. There are small gaps between the rocks that could create sheltering spots for any pond inhabitants who wish to use them. Can't comment on pumps as don't have one.

thanks for your replys the pond is at the end of the garden beside the shed it does get sun and shade , we would like fish etc in pond but none at the moment , i was advised by a family member to put in barley straw extract weekly, the plants have been in approx 2 months why would the issue be...

yes, I've been looking at these; just wasn't sure about size. Using 3 outlets and getting a reasonable flow is something to consider, but as I only want some bubbles it might work.

We've got a wire fence around the edge of our koi pond. The heron needs to be able to land on something to attack the fish. The heron can't stand around the edge with our wire fencing so we have never had any heron issues, however, a lot of other neighbours have had heron issues.