Very chuffed here - two years ago we made a little wildlife pond 2.5m x 1.5m in the garden. It's been great and we've had lots of frogs and a grass snake visit as well as loads of insects and invertebrates.
Today we have our first ever frogspawn
This is a pic of the pond last summer
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I love that Dove, just what I am aspiring to achieve! What is the plant with the red leaves? Lobelia?
Yes - I don't know whether it's survived. There's lots of native hornwort in there, water soldiers, brooklime, spearwort and water cress as well.
We use Blagdon Barley Straw Extract to keep blanket weed under control in the summer, along with their sludge control treatment as the pond is quite shallow. The water is lovely and clear and very healthy. We bought some native pond snails as well last year to help keep the pond fresh and they're thriving too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Including tadpoles.
Very chuffed here - two years ago we made a little wildlife pond 2.5m x 1.5m in the garden. It's been great and we've had lots of frogs and a grass snake visit as well as loads of insects and invertebrates.
Today we have our first ever frogspawn
This is a pic of the pond last summer
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I love that Dove, just what I am aspiring to achieve! What is the plant with the red leaves? Lobelia?
Something took my breath away.
It was a grass snake, swimming next to me.
It was also at least 5' long.
Amazing.
And here's some of the frogspawn
I hope that encourages everyone who's making a wildlife pond.
Two years ago ours looked like this
You can see where we folded the lawn back - then we put the liner in and folded the lawn back over the liner to the edge of the hole.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes - I don't know whether it's survived. There's lots of native hornwort in there, water soldiers, brooklime, spearwort and water cress as well.
We use Blagdon Barley Straw Extract to keep blanket weed under control in the summer, along with their sludge control treatment as the pond is quite shallow. The water is lovely and clear and very healthy. We bought some native pond snails as well last year to help keep the pond fresh and they're thriving too.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I could sit there for hours/
Here's Hissing Sid
Afraid he had one of the frogs for lunch, but a snake's gotta eat too, and there's plenty left
I have got a photo of him eating his lunch, I can post it if you like, but it's not for the squeamish ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We do - or rather we lay on our tummies peering into the water for hours and hours ... bliss ... who needs telly
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.