Friday 29 June 2012

Pond Project #2 - 29/6/2012


Wildlife Pond #2 at dusk.

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Pond Project #2 - Video

Video 27 June 2012

Tuesday 26 June 2012

Pond Project #2 - 26/6/2012

Daughter helping with some tweaking.

View of pond from garden.

View across the pond.

Water starting to clear.

View of pond.

Another view of pond.

View from the side.

Edging stones closeup.

View from the behind pond.

The shallow end.

Shallow end closeup.

Marginal Plant
(Juncus effusus)
.
Juncus effusus & Water Soldier.

Edging stone tweaking.

Edging stones after more minor tweaking.

Another edging stone photo!

View across the pond.

Edging stone closeup.

View across the pond.

View from the garden.

Sadly the planted Heathers are starting to die.

Wilted Heather!

View across the pond.

Watching me take photos.

Figgy seems to like the new pond.

Pond view with Tiltshift Effect.

Monday 25 June 2012

Pond Project #1 - Plants


Plants in this pond now include:

Elodea Crispa, Water Iris, Starwort, 
Scirpus Cernuus and Water Soldier.


Pond Project #2 - 24/6/2012

To keep the pond similar in look to
the smaller wildlife pond I'd recently built,
I gathered stone from the same place
that I'd originally sourced it from.

Hiding the liner rim.

Laying down the edging stones.

Looking better already.

In the photo above you can now
see that the water is starting to clear.

You can also see that I've 
added gravel into the pond too.

View from the side.

Close up view of edging stones.

Close up view of edging stones.

Looking a little less boring now.

More stone needed!

Progress so far.


Work had to stop for a few hours until
we had been for another batch of stones.

My Daughter cleaning up the next batch of stone.

Doing a great job with the cleaning!

Getting stuck in!

Only a few more to clean.

Helping to place the stone.

Nearly finished.

Much happier with the appearance now.

Starting to look how I had envisaged it.

Adding the another level of edging stone.

Team work.

"Dad, place this one like that"

View from the Garden.

View from the border.

View from the edging stone.

Stone of various shape, size and colour.

View across the pond.

Another view across the pond.

View from the garden.

View from the garden prior 
to bird table being removed.