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Photos of your ponds please

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  • Peat BPeat B Posts: 441

    Pollywogs is a sort of natural corruption of Pol~ head, and Wog,~ wiggle,

    Put 'em together and what have you got ?  Bippety Boppety Boo !

     

    Over in 'Canadia', where I come from somehow, we always call them Pollywogs, and I maintain this right. AND I still say Aluminum !   so there !

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,123

    So hot and sunny today - but the frogs in our pond look cool enough 

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Peat BPeat B Posts: 441

    Loverly piccies, Dove. Makes you wanna say, 'Bon Jour ' ! 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,123

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     Wildlife pond dug in March 2014 - getting really established now image

     


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LesleyKLesleyK Posts: 4,029

    Just wonderful Dove.  The pond looks as though it has always been thereimage

  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,606

    WOW!! Thats amazing, Lesleys right it looks so established,  you wouldn't think it was only dug out a few months ago. Love the plants. Love the froggy pics too, haven't seen those before. Thank you for sharing, you must be sooo pleased with it image

  • Gillian53Gillian53 Posts: 112
    We have baby frogs that left the pond about 3 weeks ago. Yesterday I was surprised to see 2 tadpoles with back legs but no front ones. Do some taddies wait until the following year to become frogs?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,123

    Yes, some over-winter as tadpoles. image

    Info here http://www.froglife.org/info-advice/spawn-tadpoles-behaviour/ 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    What wonderful pics! You are all so neat, ive got a major yellow flag iris problem, to the point that its hard to see the pond in summer! Im just not strong enough to get the iris out image



    Ive found if you let duck weed cover the surface, the algae dies off, you can then skim the duck weed off image



    Pottie Pam, i want your pond, if i had seen that with the horses when i was little, you would have had a lodger! image



    Will see if i can get a pic showing my hustle poster pond liner!image
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502

    Your pond looks lush Dove; I can't believe it was only made in Marchimage

    My pond is growing up nicely too, the far side about 18 months the closest added early this year:

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     The clover's going a bit nuts but it does hold the stones together nicely and covers some awkward bits of liner...

    Wearside, England.
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