The pond was created around the same time as the water feature. A load of bricky's loam was purchased to create the structure of the pond shell (like building a sand castle at the beach when you were a child) and to also mortar the bricks together for the water feature.

The shape was an oval type, with a small extra level at one end. Water can then become pumped up to one end and flow down into the pond again. I have found this to be an excellent technique for adding oxygen into the water if you intend to have fish in the pond and seems to keep the water fresh and active.

Another view of the pond shell.

On the far left of the pond you can see a small indent in the pond wall. This will be the overflow when the pond over fills due to rain. The excess water will then be directed across the tiles into a rainwater pit only 1.2m from the pond wall.

The pond liner should be purchased with extra overhang around all edges.

I needed to have more at one end, since I was going to use the leftover rectangle of liner for the water feature basin. The liner was purchased from Bunnings for around $25 per linear metre at a width of 4m. So I needed something like 7.5m to cover the pond and water feature... for under $200 I did both!

I needed something to hold down the edges of the liner to make a nice trim of the liner. Some leftover bricks and fence post ends worked great.

I also wanted to weigh down the liner and edge of the pond by adding a layer of concrete over the liner edge and cementing sandstone rocks into the edge itself.

These sandstone rocks were purchased for $256 per cubic metre. I only purchased 1/2 of a cubic metre and really used only half of the stones for the pond.

As you can see from the stones, the runoff area points towards the cement path.

Garden soil has been added around the edge of the pond area in preparation for adding plants.