Top 7 Ways to decorate suburban pond

dig pond on the site - half the battle. Without proper cutting and rim even the most exquisite diamond will look dull. To garden pond looked impressive and feast for the eyes, and was not dull puddle untidy, it is important to refine it and the surrounding area. FORUMHOUSE explains how to transform cottage water the abode of harmony and comfort.

blooming oasis

The easiest and most affordable way to equip the pond in the country - the coastal plant moisture-loving plants around it. This may be blooming bog iris, forget-me Astilbe or loosestrife, dekorativnolistvennye lake bulrush, cattail and common reed. Plants can be beautifully fill the space between the stones and cute driftwood stranded on the shore.

In the heart of a garden pond can be planted water lilies - one of the most beautiful aquatic plants. At lily (water lily or nymphs as these are called flowers) has a plurality of kinds of hybrids and - from the dwarf palm sized to giant capable to cover the surface of 10 sq. meters.

On FORUMHOUSE we told how diluted nymphs and care for them.

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The original design of the pond can be created using floating beds. The basis of such a flower bed is made of lightweight plastic, foam or other material is filled and turf. Grown on on the water surface drifting islets can be virtually any moisture-loving plants, including - shrubs.

An island in the pond does not have to drift. Beautiful, overgrown green hills, can become the center of the composition, and pond elegantly obovetsya ring around.

Bridging

Early morning mist over the water... Long wooden bridges gone straight into the veil of serenity and tranquility. What is good to sit on the dock with a fishing rod or a fish diving into the refreshing water! Create an idyllic picture is possible not only on a lake or river, but also with the area of the house a small pond.

Member FORUMHOUSE Ssalred He built a pier on the garden pond with his hands. Base forumchanin bridges made from a stainless steel pipe with a diameter of 60.3 mm and galvanized profile 240h100 mm flooring made of larch. You can read more about the experience of Ssalred beautification of the pond 11x17 meters.

If the pond in the country absolutely tiny, in a few square meters, decorate the pond can be very small decorative bridge. Or to arrange a round solid flooring decking, emphasizing its geometry.

Turn on the light!

Lighting - another magic tool for transformation. Even in the dark pond, illuminated lights will decorate the garden and to please his hosts and guests. Today on the market there are many kinds of lamps to decorate the pond: LED, halogen, fiber optic, neon. Underwater and floating (a beautiful luminous balls) or those that are designed to be installed near the water and illuminating the shoreline. Coastal lamps often decorated of the stones, so that during the day are not striking.

When choosing fixtures, pay attention to their characteristics: they must be waterproof, and if the devices are placed under the water, then the packaging allowable depth must be specified dive.

And if you creeping on your pond fall rarely, modern lights with fog generators will help to create the right atmosphere when you want to.

Lamps for decoration reservoir is not necessary to purchase. They can do it yourself as a participant received FORUMHOUSE KrutoKrysacreating Lights in the form of water lilies.

And look fascinating evening floating in the water, burning candles. Can be found in specialty stores floating candles, they are not so expensive. And you can, once again, to show imagination and make aqueous candle with his own hands, securing a conventional candle-tablet on a piece of lightweight foam.

Meet at the fountain

Great decoration of the pond will become a decorative fountain or artificial waterfall. Create their own and are not of great complexity. user FORUMHOUSE gubber to realize the dream of your own pond with a fountain in life with the help of plastic mold for 750 liters, fountain pump, four lamps, and 75 kg of stones. That's what happened at forumchanin as a result:

To create a waterfall should make a hill of stones (if a large waterfall in the sand-filled geotextile bags can be used as the base), and fix the hose between them. Water to the top of the waterfall with a hose will feed pump, which is also possible to hide behind stones. If the pond is a flow, to organize the waterfall is possible without the pump.

Venus de Milo, and other

Also in the design of the pond, you can use a garden sculpture. What to choose - stately maidens with pitchers from which flows the water, or cheerful frogs and gnomes, you decide.

Pour sculpture can be independently and using a form of dense grout. Participant FORUMHOUSE ARINC as a blank for sculpture garden uses wide sheets of rhubarb or mug. The expanded sheet streaked up new posts stacks on a small mound of moist sand (to set the depth) covers cellophane and fills the thick solution of 3 parts sand, 1 part cement and water (in the middle of the thickness - of about 2 cm, the edges - 1 cm). Handle future naturalistic sculpture serves as a plastic tube. 2 days under a cellophane - and the product is almost ready. It remains only to paint and polakirovat. That's the beauty of it turns out at Arinc:

For more details about the experience of creating garden sculptures and decoration of the ponds can be found in the topic of our forum.

Fish of my dreams

All of us in childhood dream to catch a goldfish and ask her to fulfill a wish. In its own pond can settle at least a dozen gold fish - ornamental koi. They were specially brought in China for decorating ponds. However, koi demanding in terms of content - for their non-small pond need a depth of at least two meters, otherwise the water in it will overheat, and the fish will die.

A user of our forum michman 7xx the winter brings young koi pond from the aquarium.

White swan on a pond

Well, if you - a lover of waterfowl, you can "settle" the pond ducks or swans. Birds of hunting-bait store even close as two peas similar to their living relatives. To heighten the effect, you can organize and sound. And there, staring, and these birds will fly!