Wirklich glücklich mit unserem Wildtier -Teich.
Die Kante um das Bett wurde aus einigen entdeckten Terrassenfliesen unter einem Schuppen gemacht, den wir abgeholt haben, das war ein Sieg. Es gibt auch zwei rote Slate -Skulpturen, die Sie möglicherweise erkennen können, die auch unter dem Schuppen entdeckt wurden. Die hohlen Stämme waren ebenfalls frei vor dem Haus eines Menschen!
Ich bin nicht super zufrieden damit, wie Sie das Vlies sehen können. Wir haben noch einmal Fleece, Liner und Fleece gemacht, weil wir gehört haben, dass das den Liner vor Felsen schützt, aber das Vlies ist so sichtbar. Na ja, hoffentlich wird es weniger sichtbar, wenn die Teichpflanzen ein wenig wachsen.
An der Tierwelt hatten wir Libellen, Damselflies, viele Vögel, die ein Bad nehmen, und der Teich ist voller mysteriöser Larven …
Wie auch immer, würde alle Vorschläge lieben, dass es das ganze Jahr über schön aussieht. Haben wir genug Pflanzen am Rande und Tiefen?
Von: destria
31 Comments
My word that is stunning, post it in r/wildlifeponds
Firstly, it looks astounding, so please don’t take the following as all I think of it, but I am going to be that really pretentious gatekeeping prick and go ‘*Do you have natives?’*
In this case, native plants are what you want to attract wildlife – it is native wildlife after all. Brooklime (Veronica beccabunga) at the pond edge will attract newts, and Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) at the pond edge and Arrowhead (Sagittaria sagittifolia) in shallow water, will both attract dragonflies.
That border against the fence looks like a great place for boggy conditions. Water mint, Snakes head fritillary, and Purple Loosestrife would happily live there.
That’s gorgeous- the pebble ‘beach’ is fantastic!
I love that!
Love it. Cat is just waiting for the fish, frogs, and newts. Ours just likes to watch, pretends to attack, but not touch.
Brilliant, fantastic style and execution in my opinion, it will only look better and better as it grows in.
I’m in my first home and have a yard out back, no garden really but when I get my next home, I hope to have space to make something as lovely as this. Well done.
I think this is lovely and would love to be able to have a pond in my garden. If you wanted to try and disguise the fleece showing, can you maybe put a potted plant in the space on the left. I’d definitely add some plants to the pond water itself. They would also disguise/hide the fleece well. You’ve done a fabulous job though it looks great, very natural.
Looks awesome OP! For the fleece, I had the same issue with my mini pond! Once your marginal and floating plants get going, it really does become way less noticeable. I found adding things like water forget-me-not or marsh marigold around the edges helped cover up the liner/fleece pretty quickly.
Your Red Hot Pokers look a little close together btw, we planted a couple 2 years ago and they are now huge.
What a wonderful pond, I absolutely love it.
Looks awesome great job, to hide the bulk of the fleece on the left why don’t you put some flat rocks and I think that will cover it and it will take your eye off the rest
The dream
Nice to see a shallow wading area and not just a traditional hole in the ground.
The cat likes it
I would love something like this but my youngest would be in it on a daily basis 🤣 looks incredible Op!
Looks lovely. Your plants will fill in very quickly so don’t worry too much about adding more that you later have to thin constantly.
That looks awesome, great job! Just because we struggle we ours I have a couple of questions – how do you intent to keep the water “topped up” during dry periods? Are the shallow areas intended to be okay with going dry?
The cat looks pleased too!
I rarely see genuinely nice looking ponds, and this is just stunning! Well done.
Looks great and well done for helping wildlife. I was always told to aim for at least 50% plant coverage of the water, plus some under water oxygenators plants to help keep the pond balanced and reduce algae build up. I personally like deep water frilly lilies, creeping jenny, and iris’s, but there are loads to choose from.
Echo the marsh marigold suggestion. Nice flowers early in the season.
Do wild life ponds need any filters/aeration/Water changes or is it basically, dig a hole, fill it and leave it?
I love that, especially the ‘marsh’ type margins and the easy accessibility for wildlife. Good work.
I love that, especially the ‘marsh’ type margins and the easy accessibility for wildlife. Good work.
Cat
What an absolutely beautiful pond
Wow! Great job that is stunning! And that cat is the icing on the cake.
Looking at the picture I thought you were going to say something like all that effort and all we attracted was a cat. Glad to be proven wrong!
Looks amazing. Where did you get your liner?
The cat is pondering
Love how the cat is just taking in the aesthetic