Oh I do miss having a pond.....

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... and I hope the people who bought our house are looking after my fish and plants - I do miss them, the fish that is





and I'll miss all the pond visitors next summer too











I really do miss water gardening - but I'm hopeful that once we have removed a hedge and erected a fence that maybe later this year I can consider some form of water gardening again.

[Shrubrose]

What a great pond Rita. Certainly attracted lots of wildlife didn't it? Can see why you would miss it! Something tells me you wont be without one for long though ;D

[dirtyboots]

Lovely photo's Rita , as Shrub says "I'm sure you wont be long without one"

I am missing messing about with mine too

db

[Weeterrier]

I worried about that too, when I left a pond and fish behind. But mine weren't nearly as impressive as yours. What a pity that you couldn't take them with you.

[Dutchy]

Ow Rita, They will be fine won't they?
Have you begun planning a new one at the new house yet?

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dutchy said:

Ow Rita, They will be fine won't they?
Have you begun planning a new one at the new house yet?

Not really Dutchy - but I think it will have to be totally raised as the water table here is quite high.

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weeterrier said:

I worried about that too, when I left a pond and fish behind. But mine weren't nearly as impressive as yours. What a pity that you couldn't take them with you.

Suppose I should be thankful that the family who bought our house left a pond behind too - so at least I know he wasn't new to ponding.

[Dutchy]

rita said:

dutchy said:

Ow Rita, They will be fine won't they?
Have you begun planning a new one at the new house yet?

Not really Dutchy - but I think it will have to be totally raised as the water table here is quite high.

Maybe you can borrow Karlslass hubby. He is a real miracle worker with bricks and obviously a very hard working guy too.
( things seem to pop up out of nowhere there)

Good to know your fish will be taken care off.

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Bricks and mortar do mean a new pond will cost a lot more than just digging a hole and putting in a liner though Dutchy, and we still need to spend quite a bit of money on the inside of this house too.

[Dutchy]

First things first, you are right.
I wish you a lucky ticket in the lottery

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Thanks Dutchy - I just need to pick the right numbers though

[Weeterrier]

Depends what your garden is like Rita, I usually just have wildlife ponds, so the structure is usually quite "natural". Once I had to build a raised one, but couldn't have afforded to do it with brick, so I built the walls with the clods I dug out when digging the hole, slanting the shape a bit like a volcano, I suppose. Though MUCH shallower, obviously. Maybe more like a levee . Anyway, once the liner was in place, and grass had been grown on the sloping sides, it looked pretty good. Now that I think about it, I DID have fish in that one.
It lasted for years. Only cost was the liner.

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The water table is too high here for me to dig out a pond I'm sorry to say, the rising water table will push a liner up from underneath, and I would also prefer not to have run off from the garden either, so it will have to be a raised pond.

[Weeterrier]

Rita, I used to have a house which was under the water table.

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weeterrier said:

Rita, I used to have a house which was under the water table.