Creation of a large garden pond
A series of images showing the construction of a large garden pond with "mowable" rim, wildlife-friendly soil-into-water margins and green oak jetty.
View across a large garden pond to green oak jetty.
View across the pond.
Night view across the pond with underlit floating fountain. Spot the bear!
Just planted.
Note the green oak timber rim to make a clean mowable rim between turf and water.
The pond just after we finished it. The turf laying company is due in next.
Same pond - another angle
The shaped excavation just after the liner has been installed over a complete sewn sheet of protective geotextile matting.
Excavated and shaped pond with protective geotextile matting in place before the liner is introduced. It doesn't look it but this pond is designed to be about 1.2m deep. The shaped dip on the right hand side of the picture is designed to hold soil for the 3.0 metres wide marginal bed.
Excavation complete and surrounding ground graded into pond rim levels.