Planning for a garden fish pond
Try to avoid putting your pond in a fully shaded area. Once plants are established these will provide shade for the fish. Few aquatic plants will grow well in shade.
Do not put the pond close to deciduous trees.
The final choice is simple put your pond where you can enjoy it most.
Once upon a time all ponds were concrete. Today unless you wish to have a large or special pond concrete is NOT the material to use.
It is simpler, cheaper, better and quicker to use pre-formed ponds ideally made from fibreglass in natural rock finishes with matching waterfalls or streams because they are realistic, will last for ever and make installation simple.
To see the wide range of preformed fibreglass ponds visit the website or call the factory and go and see.
If you want a pond whose volume is larger than about 500 litres then it is best and most economical to use a black plastic liner designed specifically for pond building.
Ponds can be broadly classed as above ground or below ground. Above ground ponds are easy to install if preformed and more difficult to install if you start with a flexible pond liner.
The pond installation if it is to be dug into the ground is the most cumbersome and therefore one of the most difficult part of the total project so do your best to get this right. Most important do not rush it - take your time, get it to fit well into the hole, create good back fill and edging support where necessary and get the pond level in its hole. Check that the water is level after filling with only a few cms of water then if not level it will be easy to remove the pond water and do a bit more excavating and leveling.
Remember an in-ground pond will always appear significantly smaller once installed than it looks out of the ground.