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Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:05 pm
by oldherbaceous
Same thing happened when I dug my pond, many years ago, Tigerburnie...where do these things appear from, so quickly!

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:25 pm
by tigerburnie
Most of them can fly...…………….

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:43 pm
by tigerburnie
Quite a bit more work done around the pond today, using the excess pond liner hanging over the edges, I have created some bog plant areas. If you imagine a letter M shape, I have made a trench and the folded in the liner still connected to the main pond, then back filled with soil for the boggy margin plants. This might need a few holes puncturing in it if it becomes too wet, but for now I have left it as is.
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Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:30 pm
by Westi
That is going to look brilliant! Liking the bog edges!

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:17 pm
by Stephen
That looks very good.

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:36 pm
by tigerburnie
I intend to have some plants that will spill over the rocks to soften the edge and hide the liner, the water will still come up a few more inches as it's not up to the overflow level yet.

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:29 pm
by tigerburnie
One of the pond plants has a flower on it, a Water Hawthorn, caught this bee having a rest on it today.
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Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Sun May 10, 2020 2:00 pm
by Robertorton
Make sure you put plenty of cover in it, like lillies etc or you will end up with a hole full of ragweed. You will be surprised how quickly life moves in

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Sun May 10, 2020 5:11 pm
by tigerburnie
We have several plants with floating leaves, just they are all small at the moment, out lily has almost got leaves to the surface, the water is still cold yet, it was snowing in Montrose this morning, so everything in the garden is slow getting going, hopefully the weather will warm up a bit. We can see insect larvae wiggling in the water and diving beetles and a couple of pond skaters have moved in already. More plants and seed are on order, hopefully they will arrive this week.

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 4:36 pm
by ZelicCzack
That's a fine pond, well done!

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:36 pm
by tigerburnie
Smooth Newts back in the pond, no pictures yet as they seem to be egg lying, don't want to disturb them.

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:18 pm
by Primrose
When I put a micro mini pond in our garden i was astonished that within two or three weeks a couple of newts had arrived in It. I was thrilled but had absolutely no idea we had newts in the garden.. How do they live without a permanent water supply or do they only need to be in water in the breeding season?

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:21 pm
by oldherbaceous
I saw a big clump of frog spawn in my Mum’s pond, seems the wretched Heron has missed a couple of frogs, thank goodness…

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2023 5:25 pm
by tigerburnie

Re: Wildlife pond

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2023 9:58 am
by robo
My wife made a pond a few years ago it started off as a 25 gallon drum and now it’s a decent size pond in between it was a shallow pond made out of visqueen she went out with the grandson one day and came back with 6 smal fish two turned into koy one reached about 12 pounds till the heron killed it by which time it had killed every plant I put in you can’t have lilies with Koy