![]() ![]() Peace lily's are super easy to spilt, they will basically regrow from a single stem and single root. So I only used plants that spilt super easy and are quite hardy.įrom the top is, featherfalls, golden sedum, peperomia, a variegated sedum and then peace lily's. It takes alot of plants this one had 400 or so individual ones. The plants are the difficult part, this was my 3rd vertical garden I built at home and I still had to redo a section of it. Bunnings does sell a system but it gets pretty expensive. Yeah the felt pockets just came from ebay i think it was like $25m2. Out of the 4x sets all of them have a at least one light out. One thing I have found while the spotlights are great, the pond lights are shocking bad no where near waterproof. The fish don't seem to mind.įinally I used the rgb holman garden lights so it all lights up at night. The trouble is the water from the garden has too many tannins so it's a little discoloured, hoping that it will clean itself up eventually. The roots and bacteria should filter the water. Followed by large rock to 1mm drainage gravel topped with plants. ![]() For the back section, the bottom 400mm is empty space made using aluminium tube and plastic mesh. So the water is pumped from the main pond to the back section. I wanted to have the pond with a natural filtration system. I inlayed a piece of cortan steel into the middle as I had a piece laying around. I made the furniture next, just a simple storage box that I copied off the diy bunnings page, and matching table. The tile saw did struggle a little bit but it got the job done. I used the ryobi tile saw but hindsight would have hire a proper unit. The pavers just came from bunnings, they are the 600x400 porcelain pavers with the light grey granite paver as a edging paver. Ievelled the area and got some paver sand in I built the bench seating next, pretty easy just a bunch of treated pine and merbu decking timber. So Anyways pulled it all up and used betta pond sealant which is much more forgiving. This is because the garden needed watering so I couldn't get the concrete to be completely dry. I did 2x coats and the whole thing bubbled. When they say that the concrete needs to be really dry they aren't kidding. I first used cromlin pond sealant, however this was a mistake. Hindsight would have tried to get design the pond so it a square This was a very tedious process, because I made the pond a weird shape all the corners are at strange angles. Then came the besser blocks for the walls. ![]() 100 series besser blocks was used to make the step I did a step down in the middle which meant 2x pours, this did make the concreting a bit easier. 100mm of crusher dust and a bunch of rebar. Next I dug out and prepared the small concrete slab for the pond. I wanted a Waterfall down the middle so I used marine ply, sealed it with a waterproof tile paint and used the stacked slate tiles that are just from bunnings.Īnd filled it with a heap of cuttings. I used these as they are much cheaper than alternative methods. ![]() Exterior hardyboard was used to cover it.Ģ layers of builders plastic over the cement sheet and then the felt pockets. I had to use 2.4m because I couldn't get anything else. I used 90x45 treated pine for the backing. I got another 100mm post and sunk it in a heap of concrete. Not that you can see it overly well but I had an existing 100mm square post for the shade sail. This is what I started with basically I had a bit of a nothing area next to my pool. There is a 3m high vertical garden, with Waterfall down the middle, pond with glass inlays and a fire pit area to make a nice contrast in energies. Spent quite a few weekends slowly building it all but i think the end result was worth it. ![]()
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