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Posted by nickl52 (U7017713) on Thursday, 5th August 2010
I have been looking into building a small wildlife pond in my back garden for a couple of months now. I have researched the benefits of both a preformed pond and one with a flexible liner, but am still unsure which to go for.
Has anyone got any advice/experiences that could convince me of which is the best?
Cheers
You can create a much deeper pond with a liner. Also you can have it the exact shape you want it.
Pre-formed always seem a bit shallow to me.
If you want a pond for wildlife then a preformed one maybe to deep so I would make one with butanil liner and keep it shallow, about 12" at its deepest point.
If you want a wildlife pond then a preformed one maybe to deep,use a butanil liner and make it about 12" depth at the deepest part this will make it easier for animals and insects to get in and out of.
I assume you could go even deeper, as long as the sides are at a shallow angle, so hedgehogs etc can climb out.
hi leadfarmer i would think it a danger to hedgehogs if any deeper, maybe 16" would be ok.
, in reply to message 1.
Posted by anothergardener (U14387447) on Thursday, 5th August 2010
There's some good advice here.
This says shallow is best, which means flexible liner.
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