My new pond

I have an old cement fish pond in my front yard which has developed a serious leak. The pond is home to 2 eastern long neck turtles that moved in a few years ago. I have bought some black plastic to line the leaking pond with but then thought....where will the turtles go while their pond was empty?
Suddenly I remembered I had an old clam shell wading pool out the back that I got for my ducks but they don't use it.
I bought it around into the front garden. I am in the process of digging out all my current plants and replacing them with natives so the front was a mess. I found a siutable spot and dug it in.

It looked like crap! I couldn't handle seeing all that blue, it stood out like balls on a dog. Hmmm, I have some black plastic!

I tucked it in all the way around to stop chooks digging it up and held it there with bricks.

The picture above shows the bricks covered with soil. Still looked a little stark so I decided to try and make it look like a natural rock pool. I surrounded it with rocks, trying to make them seem natural but not succeeding very well! So I tried planting native strappy leafed things (I don't know thier correct name!) Randomly around the edge and popped a few bits of fallen timber around. Then I potted up some flat leaved sedge and put that in around the edges of the pool.

What do you think? Once the rest of the garden is established do you think it will blend in? I really hope so!