Wildlife pond..

Looks good Dan
Marjorie

Thankyou Marjorie! Was a little impromtu but just couldn't look at it like that anymore!

How do you keep it balanced as small as that?

It's got lots of plants in. Their all too big for it. As soon as I get bored of them in the proper pond they get chucked in there :)

That's looking good Dan, I can see its not today but does it get the sun on a good day, I had a chuckle at the way you said plants get chucked in, I tend to do that myself with both the ponds and the garden, I never have the heart to actually just throw something away, I know you have to sometimes especially in the case of the huge Iris that had to come out of our fishpond last year but I always make sure I do keep a small piece.. I am in fact still getting rid of the mega huge clump
.We always need a space to use as a hideyhole, I have a cubby at the back of my bottom pond behind the conifers, its home to compost bins, wheelbarrow, woodpile for grubs and Mr Toad and anything else I dump behind it...LOL...

That's exactly it! I have the same iris too! It was from my grandparents as a present to me before ever had a pond and it grew in a bucket (they thought if they got me a pond plant that my parents might finally build a pond, it worked and we've always had them since) so my Itis has sentimental value but has to be kept very tiny :) and that area is our hiding things area :)

And yes, it gets a lot of sun to say that there's the trees there :)

Some grandparents have a lot to answer for..lol...
My son was 13yrs old when he asked his grandad if he could have the old bath that dad had removed from their house, my dad said yes, as grandads do, that was the beginnings of our first pond, trouble is grandad did not come and help dig the huge hole that we had to dig to sink the bath, two years later we dug the pond at the bottom of the garden because son wanted fish outside as well as tadpoles, its a liner and in all those years (my son is 48yrs today) we have only replaced the liner once, anyway times goes on and son talked me into sharing the cost of a new preformed fishpond, went on holiday and came home to see a massive one sitting on the lawn, I nearly fainted, it had to go via my neighbours house and garden and over the fence to get it round to the back garden, so back we are yet again digging another massive hole, trying also to remove sunken bath which was one of the old galvanised ones, it never came out, we had to smash it where it was, great fun as you can imagine, parts of it are still buried deep underneath, the fish were then removed from the bottom pond up to what is todays fishpond nearer the house and the bottom one became the wildlife pond, he used to say he wanted to have a channel from the top to the bottom creating a stream between the two but although a nice idea, it would have cost a fortune in electricity running a pump for the water to flow between the two ..

I hope your son is doing his share of the digging...

My grandparents had a little pond, then a bigger one, then aunts and uncles did too, then my parents have always had one, up until when we moved and my sister was born.. Then we came to this house and I've redone the main pond three times :) now my aunts and uncles still have theirs too, but I'm aiming to have the best :)

You certainly deserve to considering hte work you have put into it!

Thankyou! I've just been asked by a neighbour who's rebuilt their house if I'd like to build them a pond too now!