Wildlife pond depth

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Susie

Cuckoo flower and water forgetmenot are a couple of my favourites for the edges. In shallow water I love marsh marigolds yellow flag iris and purple loosestrife.

That's great Susie. We're going plant shopping at the weekend as the edges will hopefully be finished by then (the hubby's only working 2 days this week!) so will take your suggestions with us

[Susie]

I doubt you will be able to buy any of them apart from the marsh marigolds and yellow flag iris at a garden centre. You can get them from specialist nurseries though which specialise in wild flowers.

[PMG]

Flowering Rush has to be one of my favourites but I wouldn't have a clue how to get ahold of any - but I love its pink umbels

Pauline

[agrumpycow]

Got up this morning and the water level's gone down by about 1.5 inches
I don't think that will be down to evaporation - better hold off the planting until we can find the cause grrrrr!

[ron1863]

Good luck finding the leak Claire, it must be a tiny little hole.
I think you can buy a product to add to the water to block up small leaks. A bit like Radwell, which motorists add to their radiator to plug leaks.

[Susie]

What did you use to line it?

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Susie

What did you use to line it?

A PVC liner over a good covering of sand. The water level seems to have stopped going down since I first noticed it (about 1.5 inches from the top), so with luck any hole is quite high up in the pond.
The hubby reckons I'm panicking and that it's normal evaporation but I'm not convinced.
I think I'm right in thinking you can buy a repair kit thingy from the garden/pond centre so we'll have a look when we pop there tomorrow to pick some oxygenator plants and garden plants to plant around the pond.

[galanthus]

You won't get that many plants around yet, bout april probably. Wld deffo recommend the book 'rock and water garden expert' by D G Hessayon. Can get it for pound or 2 on ebay and very very good to help you choose plants, pebbles etc. I recommended to shiela i think and she liked it too.

Good luck with your leak

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by galanthus

You won't get that many plants around yet, bout april probably. Wld deffo recommend the book 'rock and water garden expert' by D G Hessayon. Can get it for pound or 2 on ebay and very very good to help you choose plants, pebbles etc. I recommended to shiela i think and she liked it too.

Good luck with your leak

Cheers, I've got some plants which Susie kindly sent me for the pond so it's only really the oxygenators we need plus, of course, the garden plants/grasses to plant around it.
I'll have a look out for that book, thanks for the suggestion

[shei111]

Originally Posted by galanthus

You won't get that many plants around yet, bout april probably. Wld deffo recommend the book 'rock and water garden expert' by D G Hessayon. Can get it for pound or 2 on ebay and very very good to help you choose plants, pebbles etc. I recommended to shiela i think and she liked it too.

Good luck with your leak

Yes lily you did recommend the book to me and I got one from ebay , its a brilliant book easy to read and understand its got the lot in there for ponds,excellent book for the start of a pond and onwards, sheila