Yeah was going to say, it is a nice pond... decent size etc.. good effort for the OP building that and a cool project to have completed. Only a minor quibble but the rocks do look like a bit of an odd mix... nothing major though, perhaps just personal taste etc..
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Here it is again, it is granite or kryptonite or something. Use it to keep the back door open.
To be fair, you're spot on...The rocks were all from the local quarry. That Blue rock was bought from the Garden centre by my mum...
.I dont think she realised how big it was going to be . And another factor is all those rocks have been pressure washed in order to decontaminate them and to avoid any crap going into the pond. Once they have weathered in and the moss has taken hold they will blend right in. 
I just can't wait for the planting to start once the weather warms up. I'll update in a 6 weeks. Hopefully then my creeping jenny will be crawling in the waterfall and inbetween the rocks, The Brooklime should be too.
These rocks were not pressure washed as vigoursly as they were going in the ground. They look natural...
Just need mother nature to takes its hold on the waterfall rocks. Before I built the waterfall you could have licked each one they were that clean
The grass needs to grow in between the rocks etc...on the eastern shoreline...They have been painted with moss yogurt mixture so hopefully they will age and get mucky and weather in time.Ive also seeded inbwteen them so the grass should overgrow and blend in between like in nature.
Its only 4 months since I started it.
Its only 4 months since I started it.
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Ahoy hoy, I was only kidding. Taken no notice. If your Mum bought it - it should go centre stage. Can you paint the rocks with milk to green them up? It will look amazing in years to come. Are you going to stock it with fish?
And what made you build it? Is this your back garden?
And what made you build it? Is this your back garden?
Indeed! She actually bought three and two have gone into the pond itself.
Yeah I have painted them with a moss solution.
I'm unsure when or if to add fish yet. I have been told by the experts that I can add fish, and just a few, in 3 years time when the Eco system has had a full chance to develop. I would love a mixture of wildlife and fish. If I add fish now they will eat the frogspawn I'm hoping to get.
I need projects to keep my mind and body healthy. An Apple tree got blown over and was left with this tree trunk buried. It was going to be a hassle to remove it so I could mow the lawns. So I got my mate to bury the tree and dig a big hole
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Was thinking, lots of villages have a 'village pond', are these all man made and if so how? If not then how? Did your village have a pond?
Only when the drains are blocked
Never heard of a "village pond". Certainly can't think of any round my way.All the advice I've ever read suggests that fish and wildlife ponds are mutually exclusive. Guess it might depend on the fish tho? Goldfish apparently will eat everything without restraint. You got any filtration systems in there for the fishies?
I don't think he's talking about a fish pond with a mechanical filtration system etc.. per say but I'd guess he's going for a more 'natural' pond there thus the 3 year waiting period for an ecosystem to develop and only adding a few fish... as long as he's got the plants etc.. sorted to make sure algae doesn't take over then he doesn't necessarily need a filter. After all fish do exist in actual natural ponds without requiring a mechanical filtration system (albeit often larger ponds thus perhaps why he's only looking at adding a few and only after a while).
As an aside I'd love to have a Koi pond one day (if/when I move out of London) - though they generally do require a big filtration set up too.
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I was thinking a few Silver Rudd when the wildlife and plants have established...
http://www.carpco.co.uk/10cm-silver-red-finned-rudd-p-408.html
Oh, does it really need 3 years if you've got a filtration system? I thought with that sort of set up you were OK to add fish (albeit only one or two initially) a lot sooner?
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They're man made yes. They were dug out. By hand usually. In centuries past they provided water for livestock and horses etc. Can't believe I'm answering this...
I think it's the time for everything to establish and find balance.
I could put fish in now but the frogs wouldn't come.
Yeah they're not going to mix... I guess once you've established perhaps a heavily planted area in some shallow part then maybe frogspawn and fish could co-exist. (I guess you could also rescue some of it and/or the tadpoles and stick them in a bucket to grow up before reintroducing them to the pond or something).
You could always have a second smaller project to make a mini-pond next to it for the frogspawn/tadpoles. The frogs themselves should be OK though I'd have presumed?
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Any idea what your next project will be OP?