I had a small pond installed 2 years ago. Everybody told me that frogs and toads would be falling from the sky when they realise I had a pond in my garden. In fact, nothing arrived. So 2nd year I was given some frog spawn by a friend who had a pond ( and frogs) in his garden for years. It took seemingly forever for the chaps to hatch and then eventually turn into fully grown frogs. This years I've encounterd just one frog in the garden - scared the living daylights out of me when I'm sure it tried to jump for my throat whilst tidying up old fern leaves around the pond edge. I've got no frog spawn yet, but then somebody told me it takes two years for a frog to mature to lay/fertilise eggs. Maybe next year.....! Or perhaps it will rain frogs and toads after all!
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I had a small pond installed 2 years ago. Everybody told me that frogs and toads would be falling from the sky when they realise I had a pond in my garden. In fact, nothing arrived. So 2nd year I was given some frog spawn by a friend who had a pond ( and frogs) in his garden for years. It took seemingly forever for the chaps to hatch and then eventually turn into fully grown frogs. This years I've encounterd just one frog in the garden - scared the living daylights out of me when I'm sure it tried to jump for my throat whilst tidying up old fern leaves around the pond edge. I've got no frog spawn yet, but then somebody told me it takes two years for a frog to mature to lay/fertilise eggs. Maybe next year.....! Or perhaps it will rain frogs and toads after all!