Preformed wildlife pond
I have had to buy a new preformed pond for my wildlife, several frogs, 14 Newts, they eat the tadpoles and a number of other water life creatures, so I decided we needed a bigger home for everyone. We have tried ordinary liners, but the mice chewed through them, so we decided to use preformed and they have worked well. The new preformed liner is the 'Start 250', picked it up really cheap at a nursery who didn't know they even had it. I need some ideas please, I already have elodia in the pond now and it's surrounded by ferns, they will remain and I've purchased a shade tolerant water lily.
The new one has the ridge where you can plant bog plants, but I would welcome any input from members. I don't intend to put the new pond in till the autumn.

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Pond plants are generally available spring/summer, so I'm guessing you'll be planting it up in spring 2020?
I have a similar preformed pond (about 6ft x 4ft) that I put in 3 years ago and is doing well.
The most successful plant in my pond is Brooklime and spreads quite fast, but easy to pull clumps out - it's the plant top right spreading out of the pond onto the surrounding soil.
I'm hoping in a few weeks the edge of the pond will finally disappear as the greek oregano smothers it. Creeping thyme Jekka is doing a great job of covering the edge on the other side of the pond.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
The whole pond is exitable I'm pleased to say, there are several branches and old tree roots (mostly covered with plants now), the yorkstone rocks at either end go 6"+ into the pond and I attached 4 pots to each side of the pond where there were previously no direct escape routes.
Hope your pond is maturing nicely too - I've got lots of huge pond snails now
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
If you have problems, it's probably not the pH, but the hardness (KH) of your water
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.