My pond.....

[binley100]

I now have a pond. It's not a very big pond but it's a pond. It's a preformed pond that I was given . It has a deep end and at t'other end there are sort of steps up to the top.
I've put some bricks in where the steps are to help any hedgehogs who may decide to take a swim in case the steps are too steep.
On one side I've buried some polythene under the soil to make it a bit boggy.
Now if people could be so kind as to give some ideas on planting I would be very grateful.

[jayjay giant]

Had a pond for years and only ever let the grass grow over the sides and the ivy trail into it. Ocassionally I putin a couple of bunches of oxygenating plant but the fish eat it in a couple of weeks.
I will be watching this thread with interest to see what I am supposed to do.

The fish are standard gold fish and Roach out of a local pond that was being filled in.

James

[Liza]

Depending what you want it for fish, wildlife etc.

Oxygenating plants.

Surface covering plants like lillies help hide fish from Herrons and help prevent green water by shading from the sun(if we ever get any)

Grasses (boggy) look great and also Iris, well theres a start.

Congrats and enjoy, I love my pond

[DaveJ]

I tend to go for native plants in my pond. I have provided a list of some plants below:

Marsh Marigold - beautiful yellow flowers in spring which also provides cover for frogs.
Water Mint - bees and butterflies love this plant
Oxygen - curled pondweed (apparently the best one) and hornwort
Iris - yellow flag
Water forget me not - good marginal plant for hiding the sides of pond
Frogbit and water lily - floating plants which provides shade
Water violet - oxygen plant with beautiful pink/purple flowers in early summer.

This is only a short list of possible plants available to you. Good luck with your new pond!

[binley100]

Thanks for the help . It will be for wildlife and not fish and my neighbour has kindly offered me some frog spawn. I already have a wildlife hotel in place next to it so just need to get some plants.
Wyevale near us has stopped stocking aquatic plants so I'm going to have to hunt somewhere else. I fancy the iris (I'm guessing they're different from border ones) marsh marigold , and probably only got room for one water lily.