Pond under glass
By Alocoloman
9 Mar, 2013
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ever since I started growing aquatic aroids I wanted a pond inside a greenhouse for my own personal tropical swamp. Finally here it is. I will get around to showing you how it was done in due course. But for now this is the almost finished product. For information it is a 12 x 6 pond inside two conjoined 8 x 6 Alton greenhouses. I think it looks pretty good :-)
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Thanks for that it is a task indeed, but I can get the garden I always wanted here, so I'll give it my best shot
Ultimately I want to retire to a place the sun shines more and I won't have to pay so much to heat my home, and where I can leave my plants out all year without worrying they'll die of cold. Madeira will be the choice I think
11 Mar, 2013
Hi thanks for that. It's been a challenge firstly to get the right sized everything to get the job done, then the weather simply didn't want to play ball at all, nothing but rain last year.
I will get my own website up and running sometime very soon. It includes a blog page. I will put a link to it on here. You can see the entire works to transform this garden, which was nothing but an empty piece of grass when we moved here in September 2011.
What you see in the picture is the 12 x 6 greenhouse/shed combination that acts (the shed bit) as the barrier to close off the once open access into the garden from the access lane. The Apex you see is the kitchen of our house and next door's. There is a small 20' garden attached to the house, then the lane then this bit of the garden is a separate 85' section.
In the space between the two greenhouses there are raised vegetable beds. To the left where you see that net is another pond which has baby koi in it. That too will be in a greenhouse by next winter. Then next to that is an 11 x 7 shed I put up myself as there was not even a shed here when we came. To the right, once I clear the excavation debris, there will be a tropical bed with musa colocasia alocasia and canna.
Then even that shed is not the end of the garden. I have yet another water container - this one is 9 foot round and 4 foot deep, with a 10' square greenhouse to house it (though that is not in a good state of repair - esp the roof, so will take the most effort to sort) which will be behind the shed. Then I have some conifers, which will be at least thinned as that's where my tree ferns are going to go when I get them. The end of the garden backs onto another lane some 8 to ten feet beyond the conifers.
10 Mar, 2013