How to Create an Exotic Garden Pond

Garden ponds add a great point of interest to your garden and they can also help to improve the environment by creating a safe and diverse habitat for many different species. From frogs and newts to harmless leeches and freshwater mussels, a variety of different fish to the Great Pond Snail, a pond can be a great home and resting place for a whole host of wildlife. Garden ponds also provide fresh drinking water for birds and mammals, and it also gives them a safe area to cool off in the hot summer season. So keeping your pond thriving all year round is very important and beneficial to the environment.

If you want to create an exotic garden pond, full of interesting wildlife and plantlife, read on to find out how.

Choose Interesting Plants

There are many ways of making your garden pond look exotic; whether you want to choose an Eastern landscaping theme or you just want to bring together an eclectic and colourful mix of flora and fauna, an exotic pond can be engineered from your choice of plantlife. When digging your pond, be sure to dig different levels in the ground to create plant shelves. Plant shelves at all levels are essential if you want to create diversity and variety; different plants will need to be planted at different heights to the water level.

In the UK, we are not blessed with tropical weather but it isn’t completely impossible to create a tropical-inspired garden. If you want something different to a traditional English garden, take a look at the tropical garden design on ExoticGarden.com for inspiration.

 

Add a Stylish Water Feature

Water features are one of the easiest and quickest ways of adding another dimension to your pond design. Does your garden pond currently look a bit lacklustre and boring? Add a water feature such as a beautiful fountain or a tumbling waterfall and you can really turn your pond into a focal point on your garden.

Installing a water feature will not only make your garden look pretty but the sound of trickling water or the soft surge of a waterfall is extremely relaxing. For pond landscaping supplies, visit All Pond Solutions for a wide range of products including fountain and waterfall pumps and pond liners.  

Exotic Fish

If you’re a keen fish keeper or breeder, there are some very beautiful and exotic species you could keep in your outdoor pond, including the very desirable and sought after koi carp. The information on this website tells you how to build the perfect outdoor pond for keeping koi and also advices on how to feed them.

 

Other interesting fish species you can keep in a cold outdoor garden pond include the beautifully pattern shubunkins, sarasa comets, golden orfe, and tench.