Water Gardening

Nice to see who i'm speaking to Woo ....raised beds or not your garden still looks smashing

Hi @luciusmaximus this link may help you mate...if not i hope they flourish my are crossed mate Planting Flag Iris – Learn About Growing Flag Iris Plants In The Garden

I had a raised pond on the patio a few years ago. It had an underlay and a liner. When I decided to make it into a flower bed I removed the water and relocated the insect life and snails. I left underlay and liner in place just cut large slashes through it and left the oxygenator weeds,pebbles,...

The problem is, ricky, that the young frogs are programmed to leave the pond and make for new areas as their original pond will not be able to support them. So they will hide in what ever cover they can find as they travel and eat whatever they can on the way. It's best to let them and Nature...

Thanks, @martin-f .

. Instructions didn't say to do this

Thanks M some brilliant info on there.Not daunting at all really helpful and just the sort of stuff I needed to know.

Carex Pendula. Carex Evergold. Flag Iris. Bog Bean. Bulrush. Typhia Latifolia. Skunk Cabbage. (If you can get it now.) Banned for sale. Flowering Rush. Lobelia Queen Victoria. Marsh Marigold. Canary Reed Grass. (Stunning.) Cortaderia Richardii. Loddon Lily. Primula Candelabra. Osmunda fern. Arum...

Winner of GC's descriptive phrase of the week ....(Reminds me of the previous mrs zigs )

Thank you. That looks quite nice actually.

I've actually got about 5 small basic carp in the pond, Freddy, who barely have any effect on the balance of the pond water. The Bog Garden and marginals take out and use the nutrients that is produced from the fishes excrement and the mats of floating weed protects the Frog Spawn from them. ...

You can't rush spring @luciusmaximus ...my hubby said tonight looking through the kitchen wind, if we get a good day soon i'll acid the slabs and jet blast them ...I said no you won't till the end of april/may ...never heard nothing like it He doesn't know yet but his will be on the roof...

Thanks for the link Woo . Bradshaws are very competitive with their prices . My problem is I'm impatient and having started it I just want to get it finished and move on to next job. Hence my question regarding the tarp, which I do have. I suppose a tarp is more likely to rip.

I only have a small pond, luckily the pump lead is long enough to reach the power supply with out a joint,I use this type of breaker but uk modelThey do a plugin type, if mine ever packs up i will replace it with this type.

Great!Roll on Summer eh?

The Sad thing is their so full of their own importance ...would they even notice ....but im sure you'd get them thinking Sir Shiney

I can confirm that this works well, the colour of the grey product is natural. It stops you seeing the bottom of the pond with its unsightly leaves and it reduces algae growth dramatically.

I won't be planting bamboo.

Sorry for late reply, was sick :( , the plant is still submerged but a few leaves are floating on surface, so i hope its fine.

Jeesh.! Nooo not that.!