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Produce => Ponds 'n' Stuff => Topic started by: Mrs Ava on April 05, 2007, 16:51:31
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My love and I are midway through arguing, I mean designing our new pond. Bigger and much more informal and natural, but we are having problems deciding how to edge the pond. We are going to turn up to the front and have planting around the sides, but along the back is a struggle. SO, pretty please with jam on top, could you pond lovers post a photo of your pond, a gallery if you will, so we can all see your fab water featers and steal, I mean copy, no I prefer gain great ideas of how to create our pond. ;D
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Hi Emma Jane. Have posted you 2 pics of the bridge my Hubbie made. In the one you can see that we plant quite a few things in containers to go around the pond cos it deters the heron. We don't actually walk on the path as we have gravelled whats left of the back garden. I will osrt some more pics out for you as they are on disc.ok Hope it helps a little
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Here is another pic showing the edge of the path where we put the containers. We change them as needed. In the winter we put shrubs around. All done to deter the heron as I said. It also deters liitle people from getting near the pool. Mind you we don't let the kiddies down there on their own anyway. Hope you get a couple of ideas Emma Jane
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wow, that is some water feature!
Looks brilliant ;D
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This was my pond in September 2005. Can't find last year's photos!
Tricia
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OOo Shirl, what a lovely pond! Love the bridge and the masses of plants. Those pots are a very good idea to keep the urchins away from the waters edge. And tricia, it is that lovely stoney edge that the old man fancies, and do I spy a cherub or 2 in amongst the stones? Just lovely both of them. Keep them coming folks - we can all see your fab water features and get great ideas! ;D
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Yes, E-J - A friend donated the 'girl reading' when she went all Chinese pagodas etc in her new garden. Then Gordon saw 'boy lying down reading' when out with his daughter in Teignmouth and bought him for me as a surprise :). I love them both. (Have just had to find a new home for 18 of my small goldfish by advertising them on Freecycle - my fish are just sooooo prolific ::). They were snapped up within an hour 8).)
Tricia
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Emma, heres my pond. Its to be repaired this summer, the waterfall is out of action.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/lowrieT/IMG_0371-1.jpg)
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Picture of my pond on the lottie. Path not finished or bedded down yet and it will be a few more weeks before the plants regrow but the tadpoles and newts seem to love it.
(http://david-frary.com/images/pond_EasterSun_07.jpg)
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I,ve been looking at all your pond pictures ,I am just preparing my mind to begin mine. I have alot of horrible weeds to clear out first...such as docks and nettles and that giant hogweed with the caustic sap ..oh..yes ..and brambles . My pond is going to be of the very cheap,second hand and recycled variety...just till my husband can visualize some idea of what it will look like . ::) So I have to really make a good job of this you see .I must try and learn how to put pictures on here . Meantime ..yours are really inspiring ! Keep the pictures coming ! Rohaise :)
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still need to bed in the stone edging and then plant up around it ... looks very bare compared to others:
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/239/451017203_09aa0a47ee.jpg)
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What great ideas for ponds, love your bridge shirlton :) Carol's raised pond has given us some ideas though. Herewith photo of ours a few summers ago, we have since thinned out some of the conifers but wanted to re-design it and we really like the way that Carol has done their's. Not very clear in the photo but we have a stream running down the back which the blackbirds absolutely love. We have to have a raised pond otherwise our dogs would end up in it, being retrievers they are very much water dogs ;D
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Just finished revamping my pond. Will post pictures when I have some to post!
Great pictures of your ponds by the way. Bit jealous to be honest. They all look very nice.
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Can someone, please, remind me how to add a photo so I can post one of my pond at my allotment?
Thank you,
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As requested and promised here are a few pictures of my pond taken last month
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/richardfiler/Latest%20Garden%20Pictures/PondApr07A.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/richardfiler/Latest%20Garden%20Pictures/PondApr07B.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/richardfiler/Latest%20Garden%20Pictures/PondApr07C.jpg)
I have since made some improvements to the planting and surrounds but these are the most up to date pictures.
Feel free to ask questions about it.
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you have a beautiful garden GC.
Chloe - the easiest way to add photos is to get yourself a Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com) and then click the icon that is under the Italic button and copy the pictures url and paste the full thing in between the img / img tag. Hope this makes sense
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you have a beautiful garden GC.
Chloe - the easiest way to add photos is to get yourself a Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com) and then click the icon that is under the Italic button and copy the pictures url and paste the full thing in between the img / img tag. Hope this makes sense
Thanks for the compliments.
Explanation a bit vague, re photo posting. I was gong to say; get an account with a photo storage website (like photobucket or flickr). Upload your photos then use whatever method the site uses to obtain an image URL (IMG) rather than a webpage link (Http/URL). Then copy and paste into your post on a4all, using the IMG tags if nessesary (photobucket adds them for you). Then preveiw your post to check the link works before posting the message. I hope this explains things a bit more. cant be more specific as photo websites tend to vary a lot.
I use Photobucket (www.photobucket.com (http://www.photobucket.com)) for individual photo posting as i find its the easiest to use for this purpose. for sharing whole albums other sites are better.
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you have a beautiful garden and I'm dead envious of your pond ;D
we just give dan 10.00 per year, it helps run the site and is very easy to use to post piccies :)
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Picture of our pond looking a bit sad in the rain.
(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s314/Marymary_025/Greenhouse012.jpg)
Also one looking even sadder a month or so ago - will try & get nicer one when the sun shines.
(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s314/Marymary_025/HPIM0907.jpg)
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What fabulous ponds, what a clever lot you are! ;D
Here is mine a few months on after building, settling in nicely, excuse the hose! :-\
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/P5170044.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/P5170040.jpg)
amazing how fast they look settled in! :)
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At long last I hopefully will post a photo of my pond at the allotment.
Today is the first time I have been able to take the netting off since my friend fell into the pond.
Remember 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' :D
IMG]http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/sunnyday_012/100_4486.jpg[/IMG]
And this is one of the Iris in the pond.
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/sunnyday_012/100_4467.jpg)
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Hi Chloe, you need to put a square bracket in front of the first "IMG" for us to be able to see your pond.
Mrs Pinks, your pond is really looking great now. Is that a gunnera behind it in the second photo?
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Thanks Jill, here goes again :)
IMG]http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/sunnyday_012/100_4486.jpg[/IMG]
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Chloe's pond
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/sunnyday_012/100_4486.jpg)
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Lovely Pond Chloe.
Yes Jill thats my Gertie Gunnera, contined in the bog garden area.....................I hope! :-\ ;D released her from a pot and off she went! ;D
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Love the gunnera, Mrs P. Want one but don't have the room so am going with a rheum instead.
Here's our newly built pond (and new lawn to the right). So pleased that after five years of wishing/hoping/planning it's finally built. Plants and solar fountain on order. More piccies to follow when pond and borders are planted up.
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Well worth the wait Jill.
You'll have so many, many hours of pleasure from it.
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That looks great Jill, looking forward to seeing it planted up!
In our old house I had the gunnera planted in a big pot sunk into the ground, it still looked great, even though it was contained!
I can see one right by your pond......................woud look lovely with the rhuem! ;D ;)
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I love everyone's ponds :)would love one myself but have too many trees :'(
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Poor entry this...
Have 2 ponds. one is solely a wildflife pond which is very overgrown already as you can see - (couldn't get a better angle due to washing hung out!). Probelm with this is it leaks badly. Needs topping up daily with a hosepipe - more than once! I am guessin gthe roots of some plants have punctured the liner somewhere so needs addressing at some point.
Second one was a fish pond but they passed away shorlty after we moved in - since then frogs (200+ when it was cleaned) and a sole newt are residents. Theres a waterfall constructiuon that runs into it.
Looks sparse no plants etc yet. ANy suggestions?
Probably get some type of fish maybe tench at some point. Would like to build a low wall around it in yorks stone to stop all the debris blowing into it (leaving a gap at far right hand corner for frog exit of course)
Long term plan is to hopefully link them via a sloping stream once top wildlife pond fixed (suppose the plastic type stream moulds you can get) with water pumped back into ther top one, and have one of those wooden bridges over it where thepath runs.. Any constructive comments welcome... :)