Garden project.......ideas/suggestions wanted.

[Heltor Chasca]

Turn it into a bog garden?

Ooh. Yes! Lots of unusual plants.

 

[DCLane]

Underground bike storage?

Wine cellar?

Given you've got everything else people normally have already ...

 

[PK99]

The pond is going to be filled in. Various reasons but its going in about 3 weeks.
Size is approx 12' x 5'.
As photo shows its adjacent to a shrubery on one side and (poor) grass on the other.
I could simply grass it but would like to see something for the effort.
I dont need it to be 'on the cheap'.
Any/all suggestions welcome**
**apart from burying someone face down to park my bike etc. View attachment 473586

In exactly that situation for a design client. I had the pond drained, base broken with a Jack hammer. 6 inches of gravel in the bottom, fill with good topsoil plus conditioner, plant with roses.

Hey Preston, for minimal cost a Very effective formal feature.

 

[classic33]

Is it a natural water supply feeding the pond?

In exactly that situation for a design client. I had the pond drained, base broken with a Jack hammer. 6 inches of gravel in the bottom, fill with good topsoil plus conditioner, plant with roses.

Hey Preston, for minimal cost a Very effective formal feature.

A Lancashire Garden?

 

[Dave7]

In exactly that situation for a design client. I had the pond drained, base broken with a Jack hammer. 6 inches of gravel in the bottom, fill with good topsoil plus conditioner, plant with roses.

Hey Preston, for minimal cost a Very effective formal feature.

Are you saying you brought it up level with the garden or left it sunken ?

 

[classic33]

Improve security

 

[raleighnut]

How deep is the pond.

 

[Dave7]

How deep is the pond.

18" deep going to approx 3'6"

 

[raleighnut]

18" deep going to approx 3'6"

That's a lot of hole to fill

 

[Dave7]

That's a lot of hole to fill

Yes.....a few tons but its got to be done.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

The pond is going to be filled in. Various reasons but its going in about 3 weeks.
Size is approx 12' x 5'.
As photo shows its adjacent to a shrubery on one side and (poor) grass on the other.
I could simply grass it but would like to see something for the effort.
I dont need it to be 'on the cheap'.
Any/all suggestions welcome**
**apart from burying someone face down to park my bike etc. View attachment 473586

No ideas from me but I'm interested in what you eventually do as we have a similar sized pond (home to a zillion noisy frogs) that is going to be filled in next year once I summon up some enthusiasm and the requisite energy.

Note to any CC Frogists: no frogs will be harmed during this exercise - they will all be relocated.

 

[Dave7]

No ideas from me but I'm interested in what you eventually do as we have a similar sized pond (home to a zillion noisy frogs) that is going to be filled in next year once I summon up some enthusiasm and the requisite energy.

Note to any CC Frogists: no frogs will be harmed during this exercise - they will all be relocated.

Fish have already been promised a new home.
Frogs will be eaten.
Joke
Plenty of garden and shrubs plus a stream at the back.

 

[sheddy]

Sandpit - for the foster kids.

 

[tom73]

Thinking the same as @welsh dragon and @Heltor Chasca make a great bog garden.
Or how about a wild flower meadow that's easy , quick and look great from the house. Plenty of seed mixers about so can get the right mix of plants or if your happy to spend a bit use wildflower turf

 

[netman]

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