Make a garden pond
Step one: find the right location
- The area should get plenty of sunlight.
- The area should have some shade during part of the day.
- Avoid the 'shaded' north side of hedges.
- Vegetation and bushes can overhang the area but avoid overhanging trees (too much leaf fall).
- For safety a pond at the rear of a garden can be fenced off.
For the garden in the picture above the pond was dug out towards the rear of the garden beyond the tree. South is to the right in this picture so the area gets plenty of sunlight during the day with shade in the early morning and late afternoon. Too close to the house and the pond would only be sunlit in the late morning.
