Project description:

The following notes and photos show how we installed a small circular sunken pond for wildlife in our garden a few years ago.

The biggest problem with any pond is ensuring that the pond edge is level. As water always finds the horizontal, the filled pond will reveal any lop-sided digging, by which time it's too late. Unless you have lots of time and energy to repeat the exercise, you are left with a permanent reminder of the problem and a new project - a cover-up job.

We have used a method that allows for accurate positioning and levelling of the pond edging, by using an edging framework to fix in place and drape the liner over.

When we had to re-line the pond some years later after a puncture, we were pleased to find the framework as good as new.

See this short step-by-step video. The details of installation are covered on the other pages of this site.

Also see part 2 of this video - Disguising the liner edge using pond-in-a-basket effect, using woven hurdles.