Water Gardening

That’s a very good point actually I think you are right if it was on all the time you wouldn’t notice it as much

Can I just make an observation that "Aquatic Soil" and "Aquatic Compost" are both ordinary soil and compost with the nurients removed. I used soil that I dug up when digging out my pond back in '93 to fill in the integral Bog Garden in the pond and it had no detrimental effect whatsoever. When...

Some general shots of the pond, 15 months old... From slightly below the pond.Looking across the pond, with the wildlife meadow in the backgroundFor some reason, this waterlily has grown a bit of a stem above the water.There are three waterlillies in the pond, one large-leaved, two...

That sounds lovely. Our birds seem to like being in water up to their bums and then the splashing begins! Always fun to watch

Not the best of pics, sorry, but you can see the brown spots. Water level has dropped, I need to top it up as predicted rain has not arrived .

Dirty birdies!

I’ve never had a pond, but I used to keep marine fish.The one thing I always had on my set ups, which at the time not many others had. Was a ozoniser. It made the water crystal clear. Almost like it wasn’t there.Does anyone use ozone on their pond?

I've always considered that half the pleasure of a waterfall is the sound of the water. Also the effect of light shining on it on a warm summer evening.I've never been a fan of solar powered anything in the garden other than lights.Before we filled in our koi pool this was our waterfall. It...

No not really.I had to be realistic. Replacing the liner would have been a lot of trouble and I didn't like the idea of having to put the fish in a 300 gallon quarantine tank, whilst I found someone to do the job. Or I did it myself. Koi were always just part of the ambiance of our garden....

World of Water sell net in three different gauges. So a mesh with holes around 1 cm in diameter is ideal. Believe me it works. Herons won't want to get their beaks trapped in it. "They'll have see it before, as they get around." There'll be plenty of more accessible ponds for them.

Fish prefer the surface of shallow water or some part of it to be still. If it's even a bit choppy all over, then they aren't able to see possible preditors.

Thanks all. We will be calling in on the way home, this Thursday. Cool box and towel is a good idea, hadn't thought of that ! Cheers for all the tips. Brian.

Thank you very much @Redwing; I have just ordered some hornwort and milfoil, plus some marestail as that looks so intriguing. And I'll do as you suggest and put all the Canadian pondweed in the compost bin!

Tends to be evergreen here, only ever known privet drop its leaves once or twice here. I do know evergreens do drop leaves, but I'd be very surprised if you were getting enough to poison a pond.

Hi All, I have a new water feature trough, I have a waterlily but its far too large variety and was thinking any one could suggest a reliable dwarf water lily ?Spruce

Thanks guys, it’s getting better that’s for sure! Rain water definitely helps, it is in quite an exposed position and obviously the majority of plants are young and or cut back for winter. It’ll be a case of wait and see and put a lot more plants in for the surface of the water. It’s getting...

Well, it's obviously a mature pond with masses of what looks like Flag Iris around it. Irises foliage will die back some during the Winter, but some will remain. It won't do any harm to the Iris to thin it out but unless you really want to tidy the pond up I wouldn't cut back the foliage...

I've been trying to get rid of water lilies for years.

As far as surface cover goes, I have a Water Chestnut which has grown a lot of roots but little leaf growth and Water Soldier which has remained mainly submerged, the dwarf Water Lily has such small leaves as to not give much cover.