Water Gardening: Moving pond to new location, 1 by Dinu

Dinu wrote:
Thanks Pam, WG and D.
The temp. is at 28C to 16C and full winter is not showing its face as yet.... it should have. There is no nip in the air. Pleasant days, occasionally a bit cloudy, otherwise, clear blue skies. It's not also the time to start new plants. Sometimes fog is there. I want to keep that space between the wall, sitting bench and the pond a bit clear for my movement. I chose this time, flat granite stone slabs, all of them found in the premise and most of them retained from our old century-old house remodeling [which some of you know, through my thread in the Prayers forum].

The pond's first day was also the last day of the work. The workers finally took their things away after their 7-month labour [there was no work for about 2 months a week or so at a time, in between]. I was supervising the work running from work [luckily only 10-minutes away on my scooter] and back to tell how exactly things should go. That part of the tension is over now and my work in the garden will begin.

My pond this time is on ground level. The slabs are ground level. I've just dug up a groove to fit the granite slab which I have just placed over the liner at the brim of the pond. As water filled, I observed where I've to adjust the level . I don't want too many potted plants because they ask for too much water, hence too much time and attention. So I prefer most of my plants to be in the ground. Yet, I want to make the area greeeeen.

A shot from my standing position, facing the west yard.