Water Gardening

It's a changed world isn't it? I was born and brought up in Paisley near the Coats thread Mill. There was a burn ran near it and from no age we used to play in the shallows of it. God knows what chemicals were dumped in the burn then. It was full of rocks too so a head injury was more than...

Sorry i don't know, which you do want, but you don't want Lilies, they do not like moving water (you mentioned fountain)I would also suggest that unless you are having fish, in which case it will need filtration too, you need not have a fountain, and then you can have lilies, and lots of them.

wow what a pond! that is lovely,

Usually a domestic limescale remover involves just running the water through salt. Best bet is to look up water treatment suppliers in the Yellow Pages.

I have now placed liner under the edges and sandwiched the edges of the hessian by folding the liner over top and covering with stones. All with to intense interest of the fish. They followed from on side to another blowing bubbles at me. So will watch the water level over the next few days to...

Hi again. This might be of some help......Cheers...freddy.

I should add to the above that the size is about 6 foot x 4 and about 2 foot at its deepest and I also have a parcel of barlay straw in there to help reduce algae..this is replaced once a year.

Maybe he has become an MP and had a moat built at the tax payer’s expense.:D

Well the forecast has been revised to 0C and sleet now so I'll leave it to it for the time being. They're very *ahem* busy frogs, there's loads of spawn :yho:.

if you have a pond filter or pump, then you need to keep the blanketweed under control. if you pull it out by hand, then leave it in little heaps next to the pond so that little creatures can crawl back into the water. a day should be long enough.

Would you not agree that its a bit late for that, since most of it is built, and he has a high water table.

Each to their own, but to be frank I don't think plastic waterfalls ever look realistic. But if you're happy with what you've got; "look away now." So here's a suggestion. Have you any pool liner left? A much more realistic looking waterfall can be achieved by using a piece of pool liner....

A visit to “World of Water” for some fish food, prompted me to post this. I noticed that a filter about a third of the size of mine was over £1,000. I can remember some discussions we had in a koi society meeting twenty years ago when “new” filters were being commercially produced. A common...

"WG I've only got the nozzles that came with it and they've got tiny holes. Where could I get a nozzle with bigger holes from and are they all the same fitment?"LMRR I've read this thread assuming you have a low power pump, so it aint going to drive a bigger-holed nozzle (well, it will, but it...

I use these in my small wildlife pond with a small fountain and my water is quite clear

Oh ye of little faith! Its all planned in but yep, you'll have to wait! Too much to do! It's only going to be a small feature so don't get too excited lol

He's a Yank! Looks like diner will be served.

Hi Kandy, I am grateful for your advice and will tackle the Iris tomorrow ... weather permitting of course ! Many Thanks ...Denise.

Yeah its all fine, we phoned around a few places before we started to do anything with the stream and they said everything was fine as long as it was secure with some sort of netting, which we have done Thanks anyways

That's a promise!I always back up my actions with proof....:wink: