I’ve been thinking about the bog garden I planned to create when I filled in the first tiny pond. Well, it didn’t happen. I didn’t find the time or the plants, and the space just became a quite nice jumble of damp leaves. The Astilbes did very well but nothing much happened to make me love the space. So, with time off work and good weather, I recreated the tiny pond, correcting some of my rookie errors along the way.
I used an E-Best-Offer pond liner size 2.5m x 2.5m from Amazon at £12.99 and one bag of horticultural washed gravel at £4.99 from Smiths Garden Centre, Baginton (a local family run business) I should have washed it again before adding to the pond though because my first pond fill was a brown puddle. I reused the stepping stones I’d used before to cover the liner and it looks like it was always there.
I bought three new plants, also from Smiths, and took some cuttings from plants in my other pond. I added a little pond weed and now await residents.
While I was filling the pond from my four water butts, my Amazon delivery arrived. I’ve bought some aquarium fishing nets so I can scoop off blanket weed and fallen leaves, to keep the ponds tidy. They work really well, much better than my makeshift colander which let everything back into the pond through its large holes. I chose the smaller 10cm and 15cm options for my tiny pond but there are 20cm and 25 cm ones too.
These are Uniclife Aquarium Fish Nets, £7.99 on Amazon.
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