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In reply to HAZY:
Wow,
How did you make the waterfall?
In reply to Jack Milton:
Jack Milton said:I was thinking of adding a splash of colour to the bog garden this weekend. What plants are good at this time of year?
Hi Jack, it's a difficult time to get plants that add colour in the form of flowers to the bog garden, plants like purple loosestrife might flower long into the late summer autumn months but much of the foliage is dying back now. You could add some Michaelmas daisies to the surrounding beds in the future as they will add some colour to the area into autumn and attract in any late flying insects. If I can think of any other autumn flowering pond/bog plants i'll come back and add them!
Warden Intern at Otmoor.
In reply to IanH:
Morning Jack, sry, hadn't seen your reply until this morning; the pond/waterfall was from Tatton Park RHS show in 2011 when we were offered this feature a super-discount price ! so the guys reconstructed it all in our back garden. The work that went into it was unbelievable and took 4 months (well 3 full months, the other month was Christmas/holiday break) ; the waterfall was built by first constructing a horseshoe type breeze-block wall with a deep trough on 1st two layers (again in breeze-block as a support) and a huge run off area, the fall and edge of pond was eventually covered in sandstone rocks (each cemented in), it was like a work of art watching the chap chipping away at each rock so it fitted perfectly. I will try find photos of the construction process as they've accidentally been deleted of the hard-drive :( hope I find them !
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Regards, Hazel
Hi Jack, If you happen to see this reply, I have now put all the photos up of the pond construction we had done so it will answer some of your questions regarding how the waterfall was built ........CLICK HERE to go to the link