Show me your pond!

[canalsiderenovation]

I know we have a canal, but we are thinking of putting in a wildlife pond... obviously no fish with the heron, kingfishers etc but more to attract wildlife don't want any pumps or anything....so, show me your ponds please?

 

@ToughButterCup I saw a couple of pics of your pond on a previous thread. Do you have any more pics of it, especially as you were doing it.

[Russdl]

Following with interest, my boss says she wants a pond as well. 

[Russell griffiths]

just messing.  
get your spade out, you would need to shift a few tonnes to get a pond like my one. 
serious photo to follow when I can find one. 

[Russdl]

I think my plot would fit nicely into that pond 🤣

[Russell griffiths]

still probably too big for what you would need, not sure if it gives the right feel though. 
about as natural as it gets. 
my friend has a wildlife pond he dug and used a liner, I will see if he has any pics. 
he’s the type of bloke who would have researched it for a year first. 

 

[ToughButterCup]

 Not much need for commentary : the pond is fed entirely from the roof run off. (SUDS)

Cost? Absolutely everything inclusive : £5 or 6 hundred. Tops

The sand (bulk bags)  in the photo below is 'buried' under the garden as a filter for the roof run off. Its been working hard recently 😑

This is where that pipe in the photo above runs into the pond.

Overflow from here  into the pond in the field below our site ( The one with the GCNs in )

 

[Roger440]

I didnt build this. Fed off barn roof. Clay lined. 4m deep.

 

Sadly, was entirely surrounded by rushes. Slowly eliminating and replacing with other stuff. But its big, so years of work

 

 

[Roger440]

On 26/03/2026 at 08:13, ToughButterCup said:

 

The sand (bulk bags)  in the photo below is 'buried' under the garden as a filter for the roof run off. Its been working hard recently 😑

 

 

What are you "filtering out"?

[ToughButterCup]

8 hours ago, Roger440 said:

What are you "filtering out"?

 

Nothing. Cos I'mAdickHead. I just followed the SUDS guidelines: they said

' ... use a sand bed to filter the run off ...'

 

So I did.

Instead of thinking about it - what could possibly come off the roof that would need to be filtered? 

 

Nowt.

 

Thinking about it a bit, the pH of the sand might affect the water a bit but apparently not to it's detriment. For the last few years we regularly see four or five GCNs feeding on rising Dragonflies emerging from their underwater stage: stuck in the surface tension for just long enough to provide a meal. The sand also provides a nice wet area for the Dogwood roots. 

 

But we have no need for sand at all. 

[Roundtuit]

Wildlife pond.  2 years and 2 months between pics.

[Roger440]

2 hours ago, Roundtuit said:

Wildlife pond.  2 years and 2 months between pics.

How did you get your water lilys to grow that fast!