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Pond question -- suggestions for hiding top of liner
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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. |
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Pond question -- suggestions for hiding top of liner
wrote in message ... 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. how big is your pond if it is above 10 foot by 8 foot you can afford to lose a foot and solve your problem the way I did get some small natural slabs of stone all aprox 12 inches by 6 inches( I used forest of dean) and start laying them on the bottom of the pond, leaving the odd gap to create small caves. you can put small statures or plants in them and also put some lights in them keep laying them(still creating gaps) until they rise above water line and cover the liner I did this to cover the liner that was up to a yard above the water on one side |
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Yups masking the pesky pond edge, its something that can be a niggle to figure out. Plants which excel... Parrots feather, Pennywort, Marsilea, Creeping Jenny, Bogbean, very effective scrambling aquatic plants of the shallow water margin, fairly easy to arrange their cascading growing habit along the areas that need a perk... Black pond liner is not so inclined to turn brittle in the sun, the black carbon content blocks uv, unlike other tones of plastic which uv damages much faster. One way to reduce the uv impact, is to use spare offcuts of liner material over the pond liner and cover the more exposed sunny areas. Some folk resort to casting fake rocks which are shaped to overlap the pond edge, some make a shelf and set blocks or rocks at the water level. With a bit of ingenuity pond edges can be very effectively masked of the fluctuating bare liner look... Regards, andy http://www.members.aol.com/abdavisnc/swglist.html http://community.webshots.com/user/adavisus http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/adavisus/
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