Pond and garden Suffolk

Filed under: water feature, pond, plants, planting, pergola, lighting, irrigation system, garden, design on Aug 05, 2009

The brief for this garden was to create a small natural looking pond and provide planting for the whole garden, The planting plan was to be of a tropical look using hardy palms, Ferns, and other evergreen shrubs that would add to that tropical look such as Fatsia, Dicksonia Antartica, Acuba along with Red Acers, Bamboo and a number of perennials.

The rocks that lined the pond hid the pond liner (not Buytl Liner but a more modern and flexible alternative called Greenseal which i buy from Water Gardening Direct) giving the pond a more natural look with a small waterfall on one side and a pebble beach on the other comprising of a dozen or more different sized pebbles, river stones and boulders as well as Sandstone hand picked from Agstone quarry in Lancashire. The Pump is hidden as is all tubing and wiring and a pressure UV filter burried and hidden at the back of the pond. A couple of low voltage lights were submersed to add interest at nightfall.

A solid Oak Pergola was hand made to fit over the existing patio area and LED low voltage lanterns fixed to the posts. Evergreen Clematis Armandi was planted to grow over the Pergola.

A low voltage 'Plug n Play' lighting system was installed to light up certain plants and shrubs as well as the Pergola and the pond. The lights are on an automatic 'Dusk to Dawn' light sensor with an adjustable time dial so that whatever the season the lights come on at dusk and can run from one hour to nine hours transforming the look of the garden at night as well as being economical to install and run in fact the whole garden is lit by less than 150Watts.

Two automatic irrigation systems were installed one is a 'leaky pipe' system a porus pipe that circulates around the planting watering the plants by osmosis.

The other system is a drip feed and micro mist sprinkler system that specifically waters the Tree Ferns and the plants around the pond. Both these systems are on separate timers.

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