Be creative with your water feature

NOT too many people know how to build a pond in their garden … but George Robertson does.
George, who has written ‘planting for wildlife’ column below, is in charge of the demonstration garden in the rhododendron gardens at Glasgow’s Pollok Country Park.
The 44-year-old, said: “As well as making sure the demonstration gardens are run well, my role includes building ponds, paths and rockeries in the woodlands garden.
“I’ve been doing this since I was 15.
“I went through the parks apprenticeship and became a gardener and then a charge-hand. I’ve worked all over the city.”
He’s in the process of building a pond in his own garden at home.
George said: It’s not difficult but not too many people know how to do it.
“I taught myself how to do it.”
You don’t need to have a big garden or budget. George has in the past adapted two old china sinks as ponds, and filled them with frogs and insects. Even plastic storage containers can double as ponds.
Ponds filled with fish can be a target for herons and George added. “Once they’ve established a pond is there they will return.
“However, they’re territorial so when we had fish here we put a plastic heron at the pond side and it kept these birds away.”
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