Thought I'd post this in a new thread. Recently redone our wildlife pond, and one of the things we hated about the last one was the visible liner, so this one has more vertical the sides, with a slope in one bank to make it wildlife friendly.
Dug a ledge for the buried part of the liner to sit on, so that we'd have a good depth of soil/grass up to the pond, and have grass/plants overhanging to further disguise the liner.
My thinking was that in nature, there aren't these distinctions so I made the ledge deep enough for some turf or a decent amount of root bound soil.
It's hard to see in the photo, it's the bit the brick is resting on, so that would essentially be grass or planted soil.
The water level was on that ledge, but we took out a few plants to move things around, but it will clearly get that high in good rainfall.
Not sure if we've made it too deep, so if the water level rises, I'm assuming mud will wash into the water?
Should I raise that a bit nearer ground level or does it seem about right?
Thanks.
Dug a ledge for the buried part of the liner to sit on, so that we'd have a good depth of soil/grass up to the pond, and have grass/plants overhanging to further disguise the liner.
My thinking was that in nature, there aren't these distinctions so I made the ledge deep enough for some turf or a decent amount of root bound soil.
It's hard to see in the photo, it's the bit the brick is resting on, so that would essentially be grass or planted soil.
The water level was on that ledge, but we took out a few plants to move things around, but it will clearly get that high in good rainfall.
Not sure if we've made it too deep, so if the water level rises, I'm assuming mud will wash into the water?
Should I raise that a bit nearer ground level or does it seem about right?
Thanks.