Water in the garden is great fun for old and young. The pond is given the finishing touches to its design with a babbling waterfall. You can build the decorative highlight yourself. Read how to do it here.
How can you build a garden waterfall yourself?
To build a garden waterfall yourself, you need pond liner, pond fleece, a powerful pond pump, source stone, topsoil, sand and quarry stones. Create a hill with a depression, model a trench, fill it with sand, pond fleece and pond liner and install the pump and the source stone.
Material and preparatory work
The following materials are needed to build a waterfall on the pond:
- Pond liner and pond fleece
- Powerful pond pump (€47.00 at Amazon) with hose and accessories
- Source stone or gargoyle
- Topsoil and sand
- Rubbish stones, at least the size of a fist
Fill up the topsoil next to the pond to form a hill, at the top of which you create a depression as a starting point for the waterfall. From this mini pond, model a steep, terraced ditch towards the pond. This ditch does not have to be as deep as for a stream.
How to build the waterfall – step-by-step instructions
Following the excavation work, fill the mini pond and trench with an approximately 5 cm thick layer of sand. The sand layer evens out unevenness and protects the pond liner from damage. Follow these steps:
- Line mini pond and ditch with pond fleece
- Lay pond liner up to 20 cm beyond the edges and a little way into the garden pond
- Run the pump hose either under the pond liner or around the outside of the hill
- Connect the hose to the pond pump and the source stone and carry out a test run
If the waterfall has proven to be functional after the test run, the decorative design is on the agenda. Layer the rubble stones in such a way that the soil and pond liner are hidden from view. Please build the walls in an offset manner without cross joints. Alternatively, you can build a dry stone wall, the joints of which can be planted using substrate pockets. Alternatively, you can give the waterfall wall reliable stability with mortar.