I like both types - but if push came to shove it would be a wildlife one. Once I move - again- I might have both. A formal pond in an Italinate garden and a wildlife one in a more natural setting.
Well , I can dream....
We had a lot of blanket weed in the big pond at last house Victoria and the frogs used to sit on it
and do other things too....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just been gazing in the pond again - three frogs there today - one biggish and two that look like last year's froglets. They look so happy - if a frog can look happy - or is that the reflection of my big grin that I can see in the water
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good news my fish have started feeding on the pellets, and are becoming a wee bit more bolder, it is very therapeutic watching them feed, one of them is a little grubber eating everything before the rest get a chance, for some reason the OH named that one after me, huuummmppphhh, right i'm off for a kebab, doh...
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Reasons to have blanketweed Number 23:
It makes an inelegant frog den...
Can never have too many ponds PG
I like both types - but if push came to shove it would be a wildlife one. Once I move - again- I might have both. A formal pond in an Italinate garden and a wildlife one in a more natural setting.
Well , I can dream....
We had a lot of blanket weed in the big pond at last house Victoria and the frogs used to sit on it
and do other things too....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just been gazing in the pond again - three frogs there today - one biggish and two that look like last year's froglets. They look so happy - if a frog can look happy - or is that the reflection of my big grin that I can see in the water
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've been having a look as well, no frogs but dozens of newts
In the sticks near Peterborough
Good news my fish have started feeding on the pellets, and are becoming a wee bit more bolder, it is very therapeutic watching them feed, one of them is a little grubber eating everything before the rest get a chance, for some reason the OH named that one after me, huuummmppphhh, right i'm off for a kebab, doh...