Amelia POND - The Beginnings

 I had a dream of a pond for many years but it had got forgotten in time. 

Then I was doing a Bible study and it was about having a dream, and I thought, "I don't have a dream" so I prayed about it, and soon after the pond dream came back to mind.

I did the Amazon thing and found a "starter pond" preformed liner and then I posed the possibility to my husband and son. Within days my hubby bought the liner for me. Whilst awaiting its delivery, I made a paper cut-out to see where I could place it in the garden. The most obvious was down the bottom, as it can be seen from the kitchen, the lounge and my bedroom but it is quite shady there. I then researched shady pond plants....

It arrived Tuesday evening of 23rd March so Wednesday 24th March was digging day! 

Hubby and son went off to Homebase to get some sand to line the hole and some pebbles for round the edge. They also got 3 new fence panels!!! I got down to the digging.

 

A few hours later and I was filling it with water butt water and arranging the pebbles and cleaning the gravel...

It was murky for a while but soon cleared. The following day hubby and son replaced the fence panels!!

I ordered my first lot of plants from Puddleplants in Llandeilo and they took a week to arrive. I received them on 1st April (Maundy Thursday) and had them planted in a couple of hours. 

The following day the Water Hawthorne flower opened, it's like a little dragon's mouth (it is a plant OK in shade whereas Water Lilies require full sun).

So today we went for a family walk in the woods and happened to find a big angle cut piece of wood and some sticks, so they are now to the right of my pond. I love my little water garden.