[Bern]

Taking on board the big and deep concept, I want to share the shape of a friend of mine's pond.



It it 28feet long from front to back running diagonally accross his garden with one end encroaching onto his patio to line up with his favourite chair inside a conservatory built onto his house. From this swivel chair he can swing around to look directly up the length of the pond.



At the far end, at it's broadest it is 8feet wide, with the pond finishing in a half moon. At the near end it is 12feet wide at its broadest finishing in another half moon. Along its length, it uniformly tapers from 12 to 8feet.



With some carefully pruned shrubs and trees, smaller at the back, larger at the front, they and the shape of the pond makes it look far larger than it acually is, and it has the same effect on the garden itself.



The pond bottom slopes from 6feet at the wider end to 8feet at the narrow end, with the exception of the wide half moon end which has a 3feet deep feeding area.



If I ever rebuild I will have this in mind.



rgds BERN