If you line your pond with a pond liner, you will find that the liner remains visible in some places. Read here what you can do to cover the pond liner and make it optically invisible, and whether you should completely cover the pond liner.
With a little skill, pond liner can be completely covered
capillary barrier
One of the most disturbing areas of the garden pond is the edge area. Here the pond liner must be led over the edge of the pond and through a small ditch and then buried. This is as capillary barrier unavoidable.
The purpose of the capillary barrier is to ensure that the surrounding soil does not simply “suck” the pond dry through capillary action. This would inevitably be the case with unprotected pond edges and a pond liner that was only pulled up to below the pond edge.
The problem is that the foil remains visible at this point - and that doesn't look very nice. While graveling the liner is one option, it's not a particularly good one in most cases.
bank and embankment mats
These mats can simply be placed on the pond liner. They reach down a little over the embankment and cover the foil very well in the edge area. This has several advantages:
- the edge area of the pond liner is well protected against destructive solar radiation
- the foils allow plants to be planted along the edge of the pond, so that the edge of the pond looks completely inconspicuous at the end
- Embankment foils give different design materials (small plants, stones, moss) a good hold, so that there can be a variety of designs.
In terms of price, the mats are quite reasonable - they are available in different widths between 60 cm and 2 m, for the running meter you have to calculate around 10 EUR. A start planting including suitable fertilizer is often already included (flowers or moss). The flower solutions in particular are often very intensively flowering and usually very easy to care for.
You should be careful with coconut mats (€21.90) or jute mats. While they are also a good solution, they often rot within a few years. Then they have to be removed because they also cause foul odors when rotting.
stone foils
Stone liners are also an option to cover the pond liner in the bank area. They consist of a plastic mat covered with a small layer of stone. The steepness of the embankment is irrelevant when using stone foils, they can be used on all types of embankments - regardless of whether they are flat or steep. The prices are about the same as for plant foils and bank mats.
tips
You can also use stone liners to visually hide the pond liner in a stream and to better protect the pond liner. A complete lining of a pond interior with stone liner is usually unnecessary and usually nonsensical.