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Water meadow gardening

Sorry I have been absent for a while but after reading your super-kind message, I felt a quick response would be appropriate.

It has been another busy year in the water garden. I built a new path at the back, with new 'water meadow' style planting area in between the new path and the back pond. I dug in a few more tubs with reeds and at the start of the season bought many hundreds more plants which took me months to get planted (and still have 100s more on my drive in the front🙂).

I am not looking forward to seeing my water bill but the garden and plants survived the heatwave fine. I think I topped up the ponds about four times over the summer when levels dropped more than 10-15cm.

I will post a couple of pics for now and hopefully as winter kicks in and I get a break from the garden, I can give a bit more detailed account. In the meantime, more regular, brief updates are made on my Instagram @water_meadow_gardening

Regards, Andre

Front pond:
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Middle ponds:
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Back pond:
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(Photo above by Sarah Cuttle)
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New 'water meadow planting' and path at back:
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And finally, a highlight of the year was when @Courtneybst and @shangman visited the water garden back in June. I was proud to show them the garden and we had a really great day exchanging ideas and experiences.
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Me on UKAPS ignoring the beautiful garden behind me 😛😛😛

The new woodland area at the back looks amazing already! I love the path (as always such a creative way to use what you already have and make it look so elegant) and the new planting, and it's so good how you've mixed in the fruit trees with such ease. Honestly gang it's eve more beautiful IRL, especially seeing all the wildlife and fish up close living their best lives. A proper hidden eden.
 
Hi all! Just to let you know, my water garden will feature on BBC Gardeners' World tonight! BBC 2 at 9pm. It will be available on BBC iPlayer after 😀👋👋
looking forward to it 🙂
 
The word epic gets associated with so many projects these days, but @killi69 … You’ve raised the bar for that label. In awe of what you’ve achieved, can’t wait to tune in tonight and well deserved attention from the beeb 😍
 
Oh wow, thoroughly deserved you’ve created something very special and unique. I’ll definitely be watching.
 
Great feature on Gardeners World tonight - what a fantastic garden you have created. I had only just finished reading this thread this week so was delighted to see it on the TV tonight and get the recognition it deserves. What an inspirational project!
 
Just watched it, needed a longer feature but a very good feature indeed 🙂 really need to come up to see it one of these days!!

Well done Andre and well deserved!! We just need to follow the Dutch now!!
 
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