From sleek rills to tumbling streams, blissful swim ponds to wildlife dipping ponds together with associated landscaping such as steps and paths.
A toad ^ in one of our ecosystem ponds eyeing up lunch. Notice how clear the water is thanks to our ecosystem filtration.
Our ecosystem filtration results in vastly less maintenance than is possible with a traditional pond that uses external filtration.
Pumps are hidden inside vaults that are hard for wildlife to access, and pumps stay very clean.
ROCKS! - Over time the rocks become naturalised as plants grow into them. Remember that without rocks, your pond wont be natural at all - bare liner is not a natural surface, it's a bag of water! Rocks support a mass of beneficial microbes which clean the water.
When people say a grass edged pond is natural, this is completely un-true, because the liner below the water is the least natural pond one could imagine.
A stream ^ with cascades and a small lower pool, built in 2023. Plants will grow to naturalise the rocky appearance.
^ Quite a large pond, stays clear thanks to our ecosystem filtration, all contained inside the pond.
Adding a wetland filter and cascades to a dirty old natural pond ^. The water quality vastly improved even on this old mud pond.
We can all sorts of formal water features ^
We can provide paid-for plans on request. We find hand drawings superior to using software designs.
Small or large, we are happy working on all shapes and sizes.
A swim pond ^ using ecosystem filtration AND NOT the old school method of a surrounding gravel bed (as they are not easy to maintain). All of our ponds are self-cleaning, use no factory filters, no UV lights, no chemicals.
It all starts with the dig, as you can see we establish sharp lines from the get-go. Many ponds aren't correctly shaped and also include sloping internal elevations which lead to materials sliding down inside the pond and make maintenance more cumbersome and dangerous. Establishing a marginal shelf near the top, gives a good stable foundation and allows for aquatic planting.
Creating naturalistic and properly functioning waterfalls takes a lot of experience and artistry. Waterfalls should never resemble a simplistic staircase. Nor should the height be incongruous relative to your space. Leaky waterfalls are guaranteed unless being built to the very highest standard.
Above is a medium-small wildlife pond with ecosystem filtration built-in. Wildlife finds it much harder to access the pump as it is not sitting in open water.
Above, one of our fish ponds, not cleaned in 18 months, barely any sludge, gin clear water. In the background we created rock caves as refuges for the fish, this makes heron predation more difficult. When choosing a contractor, make sure they understand precisely how to achieve clean healthy water by creating the perfect ecosystem, everything in balance.
Get it Built Right the First Time
The team has gained years of experience in not only learning all the technicalities of pond and water features design and build, but also the artistic competence to pull it all together.
We specialize in every style of water feature and pond, from sleek contemporary steel rills to cottage garden ponds, koi ponds to wildlife ponds.
Our ponds and water features are exceptionally low maintenance when our ecosystem filtration is included as an option.
We build bespoke ponds with built-in filtration, so nothing is outside of the pond or water feature, thus no leaky pipes, blocked filter boxes or clogged systems. We use a unique filtration system known as Ecosystem Filtration without the need for ugly plastic factory filters that clog, breakdown and become a headache.
Re-lining old ponds and lakes is another specialty - when thinking about having this done, consider where the water and sludge can be pumped to.
We get many enquiries from people with ponds that were poorly built with no thought given to ongoing low maintenance.
Click here for a more in depth description of our specialty, ecosystem ponds.
