Landscaping Ponds and Free Pond Design Tips and Ideas

Dressing the Inside of Pond with Walling or Rockery Stone

To give the appearance that the pond is constructed from solid stone, either with a wall or rockery stone, by dressing the inside of the pond down to the marginal level.

Dressing Inside of Pond Method Using Brick to Disguise Liner

Here flat bottomed rockery stone sits on the marginal shelf and is built up to, or just below, the water level of the pond forming a trough which is lined with underlay. This creates the marginal planting area.

How To Use This Pond Landscaping Website Estimating Avoiding

In choosing the style of water garden you have in mind it would be advisable to browse through the rest of the pages on the site familiarising yourself with the style and presentation employed. In so doing you can then note the pages relevant to your project and thus build up what will be your own personal recipe for the water garden you had in mind. You can use the grid style index to tick off the topics that are relevant to you too.

Pond Landscaping DIY Water Features Made Easy for Everybody

Peter J. May has created detailed informative sketches with clearly written text that demonstrates the techniques to use, and the quantities of materials involved.

Planning Size Shape Materials for Your Water Feature

Plan every single sod of earth you dig and cost every trowel of cement you mix. Go through the job from start to finish in your mind working out quantities and costs of materials.

Pond Design for a Formal Pond Lined Set Into Patio

In planning: work to standard liner widths. 1) Dig hole to correct size plus 10 to allow room for concrete blocks. 2) Lay 4 x 18 x 9 concrete blocks on a 4 footing. (see Raised preformed ponds) 3) An inside row of concrete blocks is laid and backfilled with 6:1 concrete mix to form a marginal shelf. 4) 2 of sand is laid in the bottom.

How to Create A Pond Framework to Accept a Flexible Pond Liner

How to Create A Pond Framework to Accept a Flexible Pond Liner.1) Excavate a trench at least 6 deep and 10 wide, the middle of which will be the circumference of the pond.

How to Prepare and Lay A Flexible Pond Liner

How to Prepare and Lay A Flexible Pond Liner. TIP: Keep the shape simple. TIP: Trowel the sand flat with a plasterers float.

Landscaping Ponds Tips and Formulae and Material Quantities

Landscaping Ponds Tips and Formulae and Material Quantities. Calculating your liner size. Liner Length m/ft = Maximum pond length m/ft + (2 X maximum pond depth m/ft) + 0.3m (1ft) overlap....

Landscaping A Wildlife or Natural Conservationist Pond

The pond is created using the basic techniques, but a hump is left on the inside edge of the marginal shelf. Underlay is laid on top of and below the liner in order to protect it. Soil (a rough sandy sub-soil is best) is laid on top of this smoothing out the levels cut by the excavation, to a dish with gently sloping sides. This creates a natural look and easy access for wildlife.

Siting the Preformed Pond and Making the First Dig

Decisions you have to make before starting to dig ... 1) Siting and size and shape. 2) Is the pond to be set in the ground, half in the ground or what? 3) Is the site level? If not is the pond to be rising out of the ground or is the other end to be set in the ground?

Installing and Fitting the Preformed Pond and Making the Second Dig

The earth from the excavation can be saved to form the basis of a waterfall or rockery. Be careful not to waste the first few inches of topsoil by covering it with subsoil as the digging out proceeds.

Preformed Pond Making the Backfill and Path Preparation

Using the remainder of the sand, backfill between the pond and the surrounding soil. This is most effective whilst filling the pond with water, washing the sand down the gap using the hose. Great care must be taken to ensure that the backwash between the pond and soil does not rise above the level of water in the pond.

Preformed Pond Laying the Pond Edging

Lay 5 mm of scalpings or 25mm chippings-to-dust laid in a dry mix with 6 to 1 cement or compacted into the path area. This should finish level with the lip on the pond edge. Create a tube to carry cables and a pile of stones for wildlife exit to safety

Landscaping a Preformed Pond Above Ground Formal or Informal Shape

The alternative of having a raised pond, or partially raised, gives a variety of possible basic designs. Installing a raised water feature is of course more expensive and time consuming to build.

Landscaping a Preformed Pond Above Ground Continued

How to install a basic simple above ground (raised) pond. Tools Required ... Spade, shovel, level, trowel, pegs, lump hammer. Materials Required ... Sand, cement, chippings, stone or brick, slabs or paving.