Natural pond

A Wildlife pond with attached bog garden and planting, created by us in September 2023 This was built on a sloping lawn with the far side below lawn height and the near side above lawn height This was constructed as two pits sharing a liner and underlay, with the dividing wall 25mm below water level giving a shallow covering of water to the bog garden when full The bog garden area is 900mm deep and filled with 10mm rounded pea shingle, then water, the plants need no soil, taking their nutrients from the water. The pond area has 3 ranks of planting shelves, all wide, the maximum depth is 1.2m Once filled there is no indication that this isn't a single natural pond, the banks are rounded shingle, the bottom has a layer of this also, the surrounding banks are sown with wildflower meadow seed, which hadn't germinated at the time the picture was taken The whole area was dressed with rocks, long branches and lumps of tree trunk, some of which, retain the shingle on the top planting shelf The pond is planted carefully to give balance and a natural look, thought is given to attracting wildlife of all kinds, however we couldn't have expected the local deer to be drinking from it each day. The pond