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We Have Emptied Our 100 Gallon Fish Pond After The B*&$£% Heron Ate All Our Fish.
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We are turning it into an ericaceous flower bed, with a water feature in the middle.
The water feature will sit on a wooden box in the centre and be surrounded by ericaceous compost and heathers.
What shall I wrap the wooden box in, in order to stop it rotting in the compost over the years?
The water feature will sit on a wooden box in the centre and be surrounded by ericaceous compost and heathers.
What shall I wrap the wooden box in, in order to stop it rotting in the compost over the years?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Do, please, keep some water feature for the wildlife.
I get newts, toads, damselflies, dragonflies, etc in my pond. They are all in need of garden ponds.
Mine is murky since my husband died and I cannot cope with the pump etc. Still have a lot of fish. Had a heron for a while and a few bodies left on the lawn but not seen it for ages.
I get newts, toads, damselflies, dragonflies, etc in my pond. They are all in need of garden ponds.
Mine is murky since my husband died and I cannot cope with the pump etc. Still have a lot of fish. Had a heron for a while and a few bodies left on the lawn but not seen it for ages.
Sorry I didn’t read the full question. Our pond has also been denuded of fish twice, including a particularly fine, huge, weather loach named sucky because he would come and suck your finger. We have also had a pump malfunction that all but drained the pond. Numerous cats having a fish, and a cracked pond liner. Periodically troublesome, but also enjoyable, kind of....
We have a large brick raised pond. We used to have loads of fish, frog spawn, newts, etc until one time it sprang a leak and emptied itself while we were away.
We decided to fill it in and plant it. Over the years we’ve had pansies, geraniums, wild flowers, in it, none of which were very successful. It now has a layer of gravel over it and looks fairly acceptable if a bit bare.
However, we’re thinking of emptying it of soil and gravel, fixing the leak by having it relined and then filling it with water again with a small fountain tinkling away in the middle. But no fish.
I wouldn’t go with a wooden box either, Tilly. Perhaps you have a builders merchant locally, or a garden centre, and you could buy a nice boulder instead?
We decided to fill it in and plant it. Over the years we’ve had pansies, geraniums, wild flowers, in it, none of which were very successful. It now has a layer of gravel over it and looks fairly acceptable if a bit bare.
However, we’re thinking of emptying it of soil and gravel, fixing the leak by having it relined and then filling it with water again with a small fountain tinkling away in the middle. But no fish.
I wouldn’t go with a wooden box either, Tilly. Perhaps you have a builders merchant locally, or a garden centre, and you could buy a nice boulder instead?
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