Ponds, Lakes & Water Gardens

Watercourse restoration and redesign - 120m long watercourse (in parts, probably by Percy Cane) in a Jekyll garden.

An exciting project to restore this watercourse to its former glory. We used the superb rock already on site and removed all of the decayed concrete structures that formed the pools and ponds in this important garden. This gallery shows several before and after images.

The new bottom pond on the day the whole system was first run - hence the coloured water. The works were lengthy; the grass had grown in around the pond after we had remade it.

• The bottom pond as it was.
• The new bottom pond shaped and ready for lining.
• The new bottom pond and the rebuilt new waterfall above it being tested for the first time.
• The rebuilt small waterfall and stream (now in a "canyon") above the main fall into the bottom pond.
• The waterfall above the bottom pond as it was.
• The redesigned and rebuilt waterfall above the bottom pond being tested for the first time.
• The small waterfall and stream section above the main fall into the bottom pond as it was.
• The top of the "canyon" waterfall as it was. Note the attractive(?)concrete channel.
• The "canyon" fall as it was remade.
• This pond was a couple of small pools. Note the overhanging shrub.
• A couple of pools before work commenced. Note the overhanging shrub.
• The top of the "canyon" fall as it was remade.
• The new "overflow" from the overhanging shrub pond.
• The old stream section of this watercourse.
• The new stream section on the first day run - hence the coloured water. Next step, planting.
• One of many remade pools in the upper section of the watercourse.
• The upper section of the watercourse as it was.
• Part of the remodelled upper section of the watercourse. The lowest pond in this image is new.