Today I bit the proverbial projectile, and bought us a new pond liner. Trying to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear was going to cost almost as much, and might’ve failed anyway.
So I bought a 3m x4m liner, which has proven much more than enough. As these pictures attest, there’s still a long ways to go. I need to trim all the excess liner, and then cover it. To ‘bed it in’.
Filling the pond was quite an Odyssey! Prob’ took the best part of two hours, poss’ longer? At one point I thought it must have a leak. But patience and Percy de Vere-ence paid off. And she’s now full.
I got some free pond plant(s) from a lovely lady, Patricia Vere, who posts a lot on nextdoor.co.uk. I’m not 100% sure how we should plant them though?
So…. Trimming, covering (gravel, turf, rocks?), adding plants… there’s plenty more to be done. Also the tap water will need time (or treatment) to naturalise.
The ‘green room’ is coming along nicely. Sitting beneath it, the wisteria is nearing the point where it’ll give us shade. Like me and the pond, tho’, it’s still got a ways to go!