I managed to grab an hour over the weekend to get some plants into the bog garden and I also added various lengths of dead branches in and around the pond for additional hiding spaces and access in and out of the pond.
Other than the little snail I've had a bee-fly nearby. I'm claiming him as a visitor.
Coming on, it would look lovely if you could get some slates or flat stones to cover the black edges, have you got a beach bit, Once tadpoles start to get their legs they need to sit on stones out of the water. By next year, or even later this year, it will be full of all sorts of creatures.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
i'd agree with Lyn - I think a lot of those branches might get knocked into the pond too. Some flattish stones would cover edges better. If you're careful, you could mortar them into place too, which will stop them tipping in, and give a good entrance/exit for anything accessing the pond.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looking great, a few sprawling plants in and amongst the branches will quickly provide plenty of cover, access points and hold the branches in place if you dont want to go down the stones route
Coming on, it would look lovely if you could get some slates or flat stones to cover the black edges, have you got a beach bit, Once tadpoles start to get their legs they need to sit on stones out of the water. By next year, or even later this year, it will be full of all sorts of creatures.
Ah ok, well I think I could try and get some stones. I do have some at the nearside and some protruding out the water just behind the Equisetum scirpoides (dwarf horsetail grass looking thing).
All the branches are secured into the surrounding mud using smaller branch offshoots and by intertwining them, so I'm hoping they will be nice and stable. I have a few plants nearby which I'm hoping will begin to colonise them too
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Other than the little snail I've had a bee-fly nearby. I'm claiming him as a visitor.
By next year, or even later this year, it will be full of all sorts of creatures.
If you're careful, you could mortar them into place too, which will stop them tipping in, and give a good entrance/exit for anything accessing the pond.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
All the branches are secured into the surrounding mud using smaller branch offshoots and by intertwining them, so I'm hoping they will be nice and stable. I have a few plants nearby which I'm hoping will begin to colonise them too