Pond Fountain Info

16. How does the pond shape effect how successfully the liner can go in?

The pond shape and configuration has a great deal to do with how well the liner fits in the pond excavation. In any real complicated pond design, especially those with sharp corners, it is extremely difficult to get the liner to work easily. When installing the liner, we are taking a flat object (the liner) and trying to get it conform the opening. The more complicated the design, the more difficulty in installing the liner. In an ‘U’ shaped pond for example, the liner would have to be pulled down on the lower part of the ‘U’ so there is enough material to get into the two, top arms of the ‘U’. To test your design, consider building a small mockup of your design in the dirt or wet sand and see how easily it is to get a piece of plastic to conform. Another way to visualize this is to take a piece of newspaper and get it to conform to half a basketball, for example. You will need to make folds (pleats) to get the paper to fit. Once you do this and make it pretty (uniform pleats), trim off excess paper and remove the ball.

Many people are concerned that a simplified pond design will mean a very boring pond. A line of rocks, all the same size, around a pond is referred to as ‘a string of pearls’ and can be very boring. However, the pond can be made a lot more interesting by having different size rocks with some of them forward and some of them back on the ledge. In addition, plants in the pond and outside the rock can go a long way to softening the ‘string of pearls’.

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Thank you!

Jim Wilder

# posted by Jim Wilder @ 11:12 AM