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Hi All

We have a circular pond around 12' in diameter.The rim is paved, but
the slabs don't quite extend over the edge of the pond, leaving a
strip of pond liner exposed. Depending on how much/little rain we
have, this strip ranges from a couple of inches to about a foot above
the level of the water.

We want to cover up this strip, partly because it's unsightly, and
partly because of the apparent problems caused by excessive sunlight
on liners. But we aren't sure how best to do this. It would be nice to
be able to smear the liner with some sort of natural-looking clay but
I don't know of anything that would stick permanently (it's a fairly
perpendicular angle), and wouldn't just crumble into the water as the
level rose. Next thought is edging plants but we can't get these
anywhere near dense enough. So we thought about attaching some sort of
webbing around this exposed strip and growing some plants that would
grow through the netting and become a thickish barrier between the
sunlight and the liner. These could be planted either submerged at the
pond edge, or planted above, and let to trail downwards and grow
around the netting.

Is there a better idea than this, and are there any suggestions for
which plants would happily thread their way through netting like this,
and wouldn't mind being dunked in pond water?

Thanks in advance

Will

PS Will post the same question on the ponds.moderated forum, though
that has a mainly US readership.

Use a synthetic membrane and it will soon grow over with ferns and algae,
if you build another pond remember to bring the liner up the back of the
surrounding stone and you will not have the problem!!
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea