Pond Life

Watching a Pond Grow

Idea Behind the Pond

We have had a small pond hidden away behind the greenhouse for years and years but it had never managed to get frogspawn. I had seen frogs in it and in the garden but they had never spawned. The pond was very small, it was rectangular in shape and was only 1 foot wide about 2 and a half in length and not much deeper than 1 foot either so I decided that was most probably the problem.

Also we like wildlife and there was already birds etc in the garden that would use the pond for washing and drinking and any other passing wildlife.

Where the new pond was build we had always had grass. In the summer most of the time it was walkable unless it had been raining but in winter it was a bog so there was not much of a point to keeping it so we set out to make a pond like we had thought about for a few years.

We thought about where to place the pond and size/shape etc and finally decided on a simple oval shape slightly off to a side and that we would put gravel around it.

Finally we decided it was time to build it in April 2007.

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