Today after the rain went away, Tim and I were walking around the garden discussing the circular garden beds at the front of the house. We have some plans to clear the beds and add brand new soil, make each bed exactly the same size and finish it with a nice brick border.  As we were talking, we eventually moved round to the back of the garden to where the big pond is. It’s hard to see in this photo, but at the back of the pond, there is a huge block of ivy, which is growing up the tree and its really thick and horrible.

Anyway, I just happened to look  through the ivy and I noticed there was a bunch of rocks behind it. We have never noticed, or even thought that there might be anything behind the ivy. We just assumed that the ivy was super thick and tall.

Anyway, we started pulling back the ivy and found that there was some weird structure behind there.  We kept chopping the ivy away and eventually we discovered that we have quite a large water feature that is being hidden by overgrown ivy.

We continued clearing away the ivy and we realised that in fact the structure is a water feature that was part of an original pond.  For some reason the previous owners filled in the original pond and put a massive concrete pond (which looks like a massive piece of concrete pipe) in its place.  It looks like there was once a pump that pumped the water from the little basin at the floor and then pumped it up the rocks into the top basin and then when it got too full in the top basin, the water flowed down the right hand side of the and flowed into the (non-existant) pond.  We’re thinking about getting rid of the big concrete pipe pond and getting the old pond re-dug and re-concreted.