This is exactly what I want to do when I put in a combination wildlife pond and fish pond. I live in Piedmont NC, less than a 2 hour drive from where pitcher plants, fly traps and sundews were my immediate neighbors. I have seen them for sale online and hope to buy them from a true grower, not poacher. Because I now live where there is clay substrate instead of sand, I plan to have a bentonite clay bottom. I may have a small deep section for the fish with two molded liners that I have left from my previous location. I am trying to find information on building the pond so that the bog garden serves as the pond filtration system- without an electric pump. Before electricity, fountains and ponds were built to recirculate water but I don’t know how! That’s part of the fun of the process for me. I enjoy learning and this time my focus is on doing it as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible. My previous ponds had to have liners because of the sand substrate. We built a bog filter but had a small pump to deliver the water to it before it went to a small waterfall. We had to depend on friends in the UK because it was long before Internet, readily available information was unavailable and pond supplies were almost nonexistent. A lot has changed in 32 years! Your pond is the best I’ve seen. I think your bog garden with my beloved NC natives growing in “an island” is the design feature that makes it superior to everything else I have seen! (I’m a born and bred island girl whose is missing the coast.). Thank you for sharing your masterpiece!
You have quite the paradise growing. I am just starting out with a 500-gallon kiddy pool. I have a couple pumice stones hollowed out with pitcher plants and fly traps sitting in the middle of the pool. My 5 koi swims under the stones that are suspended on milk crates I cut up. Only my 2nd year, but you are my inspiration to do an in-ground pond soon!
It looks great! I am working on my pond now and want some pitcher plants that are cold hardy for Western NC. Do you have any variety names I should look for?
Wow, love the pond and bogs. I love pitcher plants also. I have them in containers around my pond. Great video ❤😊
This is exactly what I want to do when I put in a combination wildlife pond and fish pond. I live in Piedmont NC, less than a 2 hour drive from where pitcher plants, fly traps and sundews were my immediate neighbors. I have seen them for sale online and hope to buy them from a true grower, not poacher. Because I now live where there is clay substrate instead of sand, I plan to have a bentonite clay bottom. I may have a small deep section for the fish with two molded liners that I have left from my previous location.
I am trying to find information on building the pond so that the bog garden serves as the pond filtration system- without an electric pump. Before electricity, fountains and ponds were built to recirculate water but I don’t know how! That’s part of the fun of the process for me. I enjoy learning and this time my focus is on doing it as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible. My previous ponds had to have liners because of the sand substrate. We built a bog filter but had a small pump to deliver the water to it before it went to a small waterfall. We had to depend on friends in the UK because it was long before Internet, readily available information was unavailable and pond supplies were almost nonexistent. A lot has changed in 32 years!
Your pond is the best I’ve seen. I think your bog garden with my beloved NC natives growing in “an island” is the design feature that makes it superior to everything else I have seen! (I’m a born and bred island girl whose is missing the coast.). Thank you for sharing your masterpiece!
You have quite the paradise growing. I am just starting out with a 500-gallon kiddy pool. I have a couple pumice stones hollowed out with pitcher plants and fly traps sitting in the middle of the pool. My 5 koi swims under the stones that are suspended on milk crates I cut up. Only my 2nd year, but you are my inspiration to do an in-ground pond soon!
Thanks for the compliment, if you start the planning go to Garden pond forum and ask any question you might have when you start building
has to be one of the best ponds going around!
Thank you
It looks great! I am working on my pond now and want some pitcher plants that are cold hardy for Western NC. Do you have any variety names I should look for?