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That takes me back 23 years!

Unfortunately, our wildlife pond ended up turning into a 6' deep koi pond, with a shallow section for plants and fry, the fish demolish the plants every spring but I still get plenty of dragonfly and damsels emerging on a sunny morning.

You'll find the pond plants will be much more vigorous in their second year. I use tnc substrate plugs and the plants go beserk. You can't beat a wildlife pond.

things are full of optimism. so many changes and delights

its a brown puddle right now hopefully my baby plants will break the surface this week, my goldies used to destroy my plants during the spring, so never really got to see my botomus in full flower.

just set mine up last night. botomus umbelatus, baldelia ranunculoides, ranunculus aquatilis and water forget me not -myosotis.

Mine gets topped up with tank water. Defiitely no fish- plants and daphnia/mosquito larvae only.

most barrells won't hold water, so a plastic tub liner can be used or line it with pond liner. I simply sprinkle a layer of aquatic soil on the bottom to encourage life and then use planted pond baskets for dwarf lily and botumus umbellatus.

early on a Saturday morning, cup of tea , sun starting to warm up. No noise - no one else up. perfect.

nymphaea alba is great at depth Tuberosa is my favourite though Also try aponogeton distachyos- really stunning in spring.

floating islands are a polystyrene planting thing. Covered in fabric, they have a hole in the middle like a plant pot for filling with soil and plants. Water mint has small leaves with blue/ purple flowers. Its rampant. But great for water quality.

My pond has a shallow section, fully soiled and planted with mostly British natives. The goldies and koi wreck it every may, just as it starts looking good. But its a haven for fry , bugs, critters and dragonfly. originally, the pond was just s 6' deep rectangle, but with the addition of a...

well. Uv does work. My 5 foot deep pond has prolific plant growth, clear water and massive koi and even babies too :) all i do is repot the lilies every year. Stick some root tabs in and sit back and enjoy the veronica beccabunga.