Small Ponds

I was watching Gardeners World last friday and I quite liked their very small pond/water features in their jungle garden. They used troughs of approx 60cm x 30cm x 30cm deep. I would like to use something similar but a bit bigger. The layout of my front garden and the space available needs something very formal in shape. Does anyone know where I could get a rectangular trough/preformed pond approx 100 to 120cm long, 60cm wide and 30cm ish deep?

Cheers

 

You could try Victoria garden center or spring green garden center.I think they are quite near you.

 

If the Victoria Garden centre is in Pontefract, its about 30 miles from me. I couldn't find the Spring green one. Do you know anywhere that's good for ponds in the Keighley/Skipton area (or even, heaven forbid, over the border in Lancashire)?

 

You could actually use almost anything as a water container.

If you've ever watched Ground Force, you may have seen Mdm Charlie treating the inside of ordinary terracota or earthenware vessels with resin to make them waterproof. Or you might find a suitable butlers sink in a reclamation yard, they're a great source of treasures! Just stop up the plug hole with some polyfilla or something and away you go!

Good luck with your project!

[ 13. June 2005, 10:46 PM: Message edited by: michaelmasdaisy ]

 

You lucky thing you - I'm jealous!!!!!!

 

I want something a bit bigger than your standard garden pots, so I'm considering a builders mixing bath, which at 110cm x 50cm x 30cm is just about the perfect size. We have totally redone our small front garden. We put down hard paving where it was previously gravel (aka cat litter tray)and now I'm restocking the borders with shrubs etc. I thought it would be nice to have a water feature somewhere in the grand design and hopefully get some of them there frogs and toads to eat my ever growing population of slugs and 10 foot killer snails. I'm looking forward to completing this project!! :D :D

Hope you're having a good day too!

 

How about a cold water tank for the loft I think they come in different sizes but mine was 2' by 3' and about 3' deep.

 

If you could make part of your pond 70cm or more deep, frogs etc will hibernate in the silt. We have a small nature pond and it has frogs, newts and dragon and damsel flies. It seems every time, I visit, there is something going on. Goldfish eat everything, tadples small newts and their own young. good luck.

 

Don't forget to have at least 1 side sloping so that little critters can get in & out (could use a bit of butyl liner with soil & have bog garden plants to hide it & still look formal)

 

I'm with you on the goldfish Hans.
They look nice but they do eat all the tadpoles every year, they're like people, very quickly breed and start to dominate the whole enviroment. :(

 

You don't need to worry about them getting in and out, my pond is raised a foot on two sides with an overhang all the way round and they get in and out OK. It really puzzeled me as to how (images of frogs with grappling hooks climbing up the sides kept me amused for a while :D ), then on Monday a happened to notice a frog use a leaf of a nearby hart'tongue fern as a ramp to get up onto the pond surround and hop in. I can only assume they get out either by climbing up the filter pipes or by squidging between the leaves of the arum lilly 'til they get high enough to jump.