It's nearly finished! The liner has been replaced (was 0.25mm PVC, now EPDM) and the water loss has slowed right down, and I've just about finished the planting.

As well as the original pond plants (except the Papyrus which didn't make it) I added a Black Taro, so there is now:

• Oioi – Leptocarpus similis, a native reed
• Baumea articulata, native jointed twig rush
• Sweet flag – Acorus calamus
• Ludwigia repens
• Myriophyllum propinquum, native milfoil
• Waoriki – Ranunculus amphitricus, native buttercup
• Black taro – Colocasia esculenta

Around the edges has been the big change, going from two elders to a good mix of the useful and the beautiful:

• Carex dissita, native forest sedge
• Phormium 'Emerald Gem', dwarf native flax
• Leopard plant – Ligularia tussilagenea
• Ligularia renformis (which arrived in the place of one of the L. tussilagenea)
• Ornamental rhubarb – Rheum australis
• Ajuga reptans 'Caitlins Giant'
• Purple angelica – Angelica gigas
• Canna 'King City Gold'
• Elderberry 'Adam' – Sambucus nigra

The bog inhabitants haven't changed, although they got moved when the liner was replaced:

• Arum lily – Zantedeschia 'White Mischief'
• Heuchera 'Amethyst'
• Louisiana irises
• Red Root – Wachendorfia thyrsiflora

After all of that I put in a watering line, then newspaper mulch with mulchpost on top.

Then I slept :)

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