Water Gardening: Dreaming of a pond... , 0 by Marylyn_TX

Marylyn_TX wrote:
We were thinking of making the pond about 2 feet deep and putting in a few mosquito fish. It will be about 8 feet in diameter. We would like to put a fountain in the middle. We were thinking about making it heart shaped, but all of the photos I have seen of ponds show irregular paving stones or bricks with plants along the edges, and the shape doesn't really show. Then I saw this post... http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/575362/ If we made a wall like this around the pond, how would that work? Would we have to run the liner over it, and then put more concrete or rocks on top of that? Or would we have to make the pond smaller than the heart, and have a rock-covered ledge inside the heart? (Does that make sense?) If we did do that, we would have to embed some PVC pipes or something into the concrete at the lowest point, so the pond wouldn't overflow it (and wash the fish down the garden path) if it rains hard... Maybe we need to do that anyway, though.

If we build a concrete wall like this, would it need to be as deep as the pond, or maybe a couple of inches deeper? Bareroots made hers just a few inches deep, but it was a raised bed, not a pond. Or should I just skip the wall and go for a simpler shape? How much trouble will a wall be?

This message was edited Oct 12, 2009 2:37 PM