Show us your ponds !

[Badger74]

That's cracking, I just don't know what to say.

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[milius2]

That's cracking, I just don't know what to say.

Not exactly a hole in the ground is it? But as I said, it has been in the making for 15 years now and the conditions for it are perfect. Surely we could have went to many holidays abroad for that money, but making your own landscape features is just so much fun and no reservations needed to get away from the rest of the world

 

[daveO]

Mine's a bit smaller scale... and still has the taps on it

 

[milius2]

It's only smaller! Serves the same purpose. You've created a habitat that did not existed before and a pleasing feature for an eye to catch. I'd say well done!

 

[Le Loup]

Great looking pond milius, & I daresay it will look even better when the area has settled down & those trees grow. Well done.
Regards, Keith.

 

[Le Loup]

This is cattail pond in Butterfly Valley in Wychwood Forest, New England NSW Australia where we live.

A pair of Wood duck on Cattail Pond.

 

[Wayne]

Great thread. Thanks for sharing. I have pond envy.

 

[milius2]

Oh.... so the old photos are gone now.. I should get a better storage than facebook......
OK, for the time being..........


I want a couple of weeks back to the big pond with some mates and we knocked up (renovated really) a good old jumping bridge. We use it for diving when out of sauna and for fishing so this time it has got a really nice seating area.

And it is so nice to see the pond now full of water. The space is amazing, cant wait for the next summer.

Notice the island in the middle of the pond? It's got something special planned for it. The next project

Can you guess why we split this bent branch in half?

So what do you think? What shall we do with these two pieces?

 

[hiho]

bridge? need more letters

 

[Leshy]

Can you guess why we split this bent branch in half?


So what do you think? What shall we do with these two pieces?

Giant catapult ?!
😅😄

 

[Adze]

Seating for an outdoor cinema?

 

[milius2]

Giant catapult ?!


The young ones would definitely like that and my father too!!!

Seating for an outdoor cinema?

It would make a nice seating, but we host the cinema in the storage shed now. It's waterproof, although attracting A LOT of mosquitoes at night

bridge? need more letters

You need not... Because you are right! It's going to make a big old arch bridge! I've found this tree branch quite a few years back and since then I knew someday it will become a bridge. And this is the first steps getting there. Now it will sit till the summer to be debarked, then stored for a year on site to dry. Then cut to shape. Then a base should be built and when winter comes, built up...... In case we will go short of "things to do" on the weekends... I kind of like enslaving relatives from the city.

 

[Leshy]

Looking forward to seeing this bridge bud! What a beautiful piece of lumber! 👍

 

[ValeTudoGuy]

This is the overgrown feeder stream.

 

[Kepis]

One of six i look after.

 

[SoldierPalmer]

Here's two of the ponds I keep an eye on I'll be sad to leave them.

One is a good spawning area for trout and salmon with plenty of parr and smolts the other hold brown trout.

 

[acheter]

What a beautiful piece of lumber!

 

[Greg]

I don't have a pond of my own but this is a little gem at one of my local disused quarries...