There’s nothing more calming than the tranquil sound of water
trickling from a water feature and I can’t think of a better way to great guests to the house than having one right by the front door!
Now that Spring is here, it’s a great time to start thinking about adding some curb appeal by installing a pond. Ready-made ponds are a great convenience. Here’s one we installed on one side of our front walkway. Head on over to the full tutorial with the lowdown on how we did it!
It is a simple and straightforward task to add a ridgid liner to the garden, but there are other considerations when the liner is going to be up against the edge of a walkway (as ours was). We ran into several challenges and I’ll show you how we resolved them.
But first, if you are installing a liner anywhere else in the garden, here are the general instructions. However, if you want to install a liner that will be intersecting with a walkway (like ours did), skip down to “Walkway Challenges”.
We started with a small kidney shaped pre-formed ridgid liner. It was very easy to install with a few simple tools and supplies (shovel, garden hose, sand, scoop, level). We placed the liner where we wanted it and then, using a hose, we marked out the outline of the shape (you can use marking paint or sand to mark also). We carefully measured the depth needed and also the depth and placement of any shelves we would also need to dig out (we have one shelf in our pond).