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Dig a hole Dig a hole for a pond, that's easy Digging a hole for a pond is easy after marking it out (with rope or sand) you just dig right? Wrong Let us suppose you do just that, so when finished you put in sand and liner and fill with water, decorate with rocks, so please can you answer me this. Why can I see liner at one side and not the other? Why is that planting basket at such an angle? Why does it look like a dark hole outlined in rock cakes? The answers are simple. Although digging is fairly strait forward, is the ground you are digging level? If it is then you will not have liner showing at all, if it isn't that is why you have liner showing at one side and not the other. When digging the hole keep some of the spoil to make the liner level, after all if it was a preformed pool you would do this so why not a liner. The liner must always be level. The plant is at a funny angle because you forgot to make a shelf to rest it on, either all the way or part way round, i suggest that a shelf be 30cm wide to allow for sand and the liner, but the shelf too must also be level. It looks like a hole with "rock cakes" because you got the stones or rocks all the same size and shape, ideally you should get them from a quarry and choose them yourself, but as this may not be possible get a huge variety of shapes and sizes, and never just put them around the edge as it jut serves to highlight your error. Instead mix them up, but don't stick to a pattern like 2 big 1 small, 2 big 1 small etc, this too will look like a highlight, as you should have a large variety of sizes, mix them You don't see in nature rows of uniform stones or rocks do you, so why do you think you should do it to your pond?
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