A new pond

Finally it’s time to fix this side of the stone steps. Here is a small pond that I want to make bigger. During the winter, I planned how I wanted to do it. There will also be a low stone wall, like I have in other places in the garden.

First, I emptied the water out, then it was easier to dig out all the perennials in the slope above. The last overgrown mountain pine above the pond will be removed.

All perennials are dug out. A trench filled with compacted stone dust will be the basis for the wall. A lot of turf is removed so now you can see roughly how big new pond will be.

Here we have drawn the pond liner in place. It was so heavy and difficult to manage! The pond liner is a little too big, but it is better to have too much than too little. Some of the left over I will use to build a small brook. Here water is filling up while I corrects the pond liner.

The next level of the bricks are in place. Now I can finally start to fill up with compost to make the flower bed ready.

Now the brook is in place but I have no neat connection of it to the pond yet. Some flowers have also moved back.

I tried to cast a trench that leads the water from the brook over the wall into the pond. I think it looks good, we’ll see if I keep it or try to make a new one.
I have temporarily put out slate tiles around the pond, next summer, I will continue with this project. The brick wall will be completed and a walkway made of stone dust will be placed around the pond. On the far end, there will be a paving between the wall and the pond.
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