Very interesting posts,as I'm just looking on Amazon to see what the specs are for a preformed small pond for wildlife.Do you need a pump? I kept Koi once,and realise that this is a completely different thing. What do you suggest for starter plants,I am looking at a small 55 litre one. My garden is longish and narrow,and I have access to lots of Welsh stone.
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Lovely - thanks Dove I've got lots of newts and little 'uns, pond skaters and all sorts of bugs in the water, lots of flourescent (damsel?) flies doing what they do this time of year, it's a facinating world to watch. No frogs yet though, but I've added more logs to the pile and am building another mini-rockery that goes into the pond at the other end.
I'll wait until the heatwave ends before ordering the snails, the pond is coming up to 2 yrs old now so hopefully they'll be ok
Billericay - Essex
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See how clear the water is ... everything except the grass to the right is below the surface.
Lots of pond snails .... although we try to keep the falling leaves out of the pond in the autumn, it is below an ash tree so some always get in there, and the snails just munch them up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gosh those snails are monsters compared with our tiny little specimens. I think I will be ordering some too. Pete, we have worked out that for our pond - without postage we will need to spend almost £80 for the Cloverleaf and sludgebuster. How often do you apply it, and can we use the Cloverleaf Blanket with the sludgebuster too?
Very interesting posts,as I'm just looking on Amazon to see what the specs are for a preformed small pond for wildlife.Do you need a pump? I kept Koi once,and realise that this is a completely different thing. What do you suggest for starter plants,I am looking at a small 55 litre one. My garden is longish and narrow,and I have access to lots of Welsh stone.
Any advice anyone? Many thanks.
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We bought 20 ... we now have what seems like hundreds
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've got lots of newts and little 'uns, pond skaters and all sorts of bugs in the water, lots of flourescent (damsel?) flies doing what they do this time of year, it's a facinating world to watch. No frogs yet though, but I've added more logs to the pile and am building another mini-rockery that goes into the pond at the other end.
I'll wait until the heatwave ends before ordering the snails, the pond is coming up to 2 yrs old now so hopefully they'll be ok
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Lots of pond snails .... although we try to keep the falling leaves out of the pond in the autumn, it is below an ash tree so some always get in there, and the snails just munch them up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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very helpful with advising re the pond and the plants that would suit best.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.