How to Build a Wildlife Pond: Part 6 - Planting, Hibernaculum and Finishing Touches

Watch in HD. Series of videos showing the construction of a large wildlife pond at a school in Gosforth, Newcastle (North East England).
The pond has a beach area, dipping platform and hibernaculum and is planted with native plants.
This video shows how the planting and hibernaculum was completed.
Plants used as follows:
Brooklime (Veronica beccabunga)
Water mint (Metha Aquatica)
Yellow flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus)
Mares tail (Hippurus vulgaris)
Starwort (Callitriche verna)
Bog bean (Menyanthes trifoliata)
Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris)
Soft rush (Juncus effussus)
Green rush (Juncus ensifoliatus)
Pendulous sedge (Carex pendula)
Native white water lily (Nymphea alba)
Creeping jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)
Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)
Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
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[SKExotics]

Job well done! I loved every installment!

[pondguru]

Thanks for watching. I tried to trim it down to just the important stuff, but there was alot of important information for this style of pond - much more than with a koi pond.

Thanks for sticking it out. lol

[pondguru]

You need special liquid to prepare the liner and adhesive. In a dish shaped pond it is much easier to doin than in a pond wit shelves and other features. For a coarse fishing pond which was lined, ideally you would line it, cover the liner in a layer of clay based soil then build your features / fish shelters on top of the liner so allow for this by having concrete pads under the liner if building islands out of blocks on to of the liner.

[billyarseface]

@pondguru I though as much. How would you join the lining? Using a blowtorch?

[pondguru]

Some modern coarse fisheries are only 2 - 2.5m deep do depth isn't really too important. For trout, the deeper the better as they don't do too well in warmer water.

For a large pond / lake, liner would have to be joined on-site.

[billyarseface]

@pondguru I'm sure allot of people would love to see you pond/lake. For coarse fish I meant roach, perch, bream rudd etc.... so the more depth the better guess. I really would love to do something like this but without access to a spring or river I'm just not sure if it is possible. I live in Ireland BTW.

[pondguru]

Water pressure isn't an issue provided the liner is properly supported and there are no cavities under it. My pond is approx 5m deep which is plenty deep enough for trout and probably way too deep for coarse fish. The only footage of the big pond is on a couple of camcorder tapes so I really should take them to a digital images place? to get them put to DVD so I can make a film of that.

[billyarseface]

@pondguru I see, costs aside, is there a limit to the amount of pressure the lining can take? Without access to a spring how deep could one go? (do you have any videos of the making of your lake?)

[pondguru]

The acheivability of any project is limited mostly by finances. I was lucky and called in a favour, located a nearby spring and grew all my own aquatic plants for my large pond / small lake - it didn't cost much compared to if I had contractors doing the work.

[billyarseface]

wow this was a great "How to" congrats. I would love to build a big pond in my garden and stock it with course fish. How big can one go before it becomes un feasible?