It looks really nice and from this angle you can see where the waterfall comes in to it. I need to see things from different angles as they give a better all round picture. I know with mine it looks very flat from the top of the garden, but on looking at it from below the pond suddenly there is a couple of feet of drystone walling leading up to the shallow end of the pond. It looks totally different. Your pond is larger than I thought from the other photos.I like the edging it looks big enough to sit on to watch the fish at close quarters.
Alison

Thanks for the nice words Alison!

Yes, I've seen lots of pictures in the gallery where it took a while to figure out what I was looking at! Especially pictures showing just one corner of a pond. It's difficult unless you see it the context of the whole pond, from a picture showing the whole thing...

As for the edging, it's 45cm wide which is definitely big enough to sit on and stare into the pond (I do it all the time!) And the water level is only a few cm lower than the edging so I can easily get "up close and personal" with the fish, and the frogs who love to lurk in the plants and rocks on the first shelf level.

The edging is also good to sit on with your bare feet in the water, resting on the first shelf level, when the weather is hot!

It's lovely, really lovely - I am in awe!

it's lovely, all of your planting - it's going to be riotus next year! The 'in' pond vegetation looks very established already. Is that bamboo roll around the edging? I love that stuff. It's so versatile. The whole thing is really beautiful.

Thanks SandyN! And Linda/Clive, a lot of the pond plants are 2 or 3 years old now eg. some of the lillies... so yes, some are quite mature. But some of it was bought this year and is also thriving. I've decided not to over-Winter anything this year, I'll just see what survives - and replace anything that doesn't in Spring - with more hardy plants.

The edging is not bamboo, it's willow or something - a nearby Wilkinson's was selling rolls of it really cheap so I snapped it up. It had a "wavy" top edge, but I just sawed the ends off while it was still rolled up, to get a straightish edge and make it the right height.

Next year, I'm planning to add a decking area opposite the waterfall, for pond-side relaxing... and a bridge across the middle to provide a more interesting place to do my pond-watching and also provide more shade. More shade = less algae, I was hoping for good surface coverage by duckweed - and azolla thanks to Sean - but they never really get going because the fish love eating it :-P)