Nice ideas for the pond in the garden

Pretty sculptures, wonderful flowers or small watercourses that simply come splashing along make the ornamental pond a real garden highlight. Even the traditional garden gnomes, water-spouting frogs, dragons or turtles belong to the garden pond decoration and to whom the Greek ones Gods or African Buddhas are too kitschy, a small fountain creates a pleasant flair for your midday nap on Natural habitat.

Games of light for a night by the pond

Especially the humid summer evenings often invite you to linger at the edge of the pond until late at night. With practical lighting, whether as individually set up lanterns, rustic terracotta lights or with Technically somewhat complex illumination with the help of hidden LEDs, the cosiness comes directly to the small even without the sun Wonderland.

Decorate the pond with your own island

If the customary decoration ideas are not so popular, there are no limits to your own creativity, for example with a self-built island on an old one

Styrofoam plate(€ 43.00 at Amazon *) is housed floating. The following ingredients are needed for the new island:

• a slightly thicker styrofoam sheet;
• a larger stone and sturdy cord for the anchor;
• not too big Pond plants and wild herbs;
• a sturdy kitchen knife;

The floating island is created

If possible, choose a styrofoam sheet that cannot absorb water, otherwise it will soon be destroyed. The desired contours are first cut out with the knife and then several, depending on the size Openings in the plate that are not too large, so that the pond water can later reach the roots unhindered got. Then arrange the plants according to your ideas and then remove as much soil as possible. The spaces are with moss https://www.gartenjournal.net/moos-zuechten-buttermilch filled in so that the plate is completely covered at the end.

Before the structure is lowered into the water, the stone must now be attached to the underside of the styrofoam plate using a sufficiently long cord as an anchor.