Comments for The Garden Pond Blog

Comment on Edging the pond by Colin Wavell

Colin Wavell — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:08:29 +0000

I made my pond in a lawn. Around the edge I just lifted turfs and brought the pond liner under them. it gives a natural mossy edge. See the pictures in my archive

Comment on How deep should your pond be? by Noddrick

Noddrick — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:46:32 +0000

the heat form the sun is also and issue, too shallow and the water gets too warm. 2 feet min, 3 feet better, with a graduation area. Dig deep and take a break, then again and keep going until you can’ dig anymore, leave ledges, and some graduation. You don’t want a slime pool.

Comment on Pre-formed pond liners by Ruby - Pond Liners UK

Ruby - Pond Liners UK — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:23:59 +0000

In my opinion (or should I say for my garden?), the size is just perfect. I guess if you really wanted it in a specific size, you’d need to have it customized.

Comment on Duck attack by Brenda Nyman

Brenda Nyman — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:17:05 +0000

Why would you want to discourage the ducks? We put in a 12 x 20 ft, 1.5 ft deed pond for a female mallard duck that was coming to our place for the cracked corn we put out for the birds/animals and was trying to sit in the bird bath. Now we have the one female and two males and we’re trying to figure out what is best to plant in and around the pond for the ducks. This is an all natural pond, no liners, no fish and all the water comes from rain & ground water being pumped from around the house via our sump pump. We did how ever put in a filter with a fountain head that just barely breaks the water surface to keep the water moving.

Comment on Naughty newt by Denise

Denise — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:39:41 +0000

We relined our pond last year , our Newt population had been dwindling for a couple of years, but now we are a year on and we still only have one female common newt and one Male crested, are the others likely to come back, poor cresta looks very unhappy on his own Denise, Buckinghamshire

Comment on Edging the pond by Ilse

Ilse — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:55:01 +0000

Hi we have an existing big pond that we just cleaned entirely and refilled the sides with big rocks of all kind of shapes and sizes. We want the grass to come as close as possible to the edges. Would you suggest anything special for the edges? Artificial grass? Sand? Thanks heaps for your help.

Comment on The worst frog mortality so far reported by heather

heather — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:55:27 +0000

Has anyone ever considered Acid rain or snow, melting in spring would destroy pond life… pollution in the air precipitating…? In canada it kills fish eggs in some areas… wondering if there is a connection…

Comment on Is Laburnum poisonous? by Kerin

Kerin — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:22:19 +0000

I wouldn’t assume that the mode of action in insects, invertebrates, birds and mammals will all be the same for alkaloids.

Comment on How to make a really good wildlife pond (3): the pictures by Elaine Kneller

Elaine Kneller — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:14:32 +0000

Hello Pat, sorry I missed your post earlier, i hope some of the “experts” can give you advice, I am a new pond owner, so cannot really advise, other than the pre-formed ponds seem to be fairly deep and do not have graduated edges, which the wildlife seems to prefer. We have one very small preformed pond, which is nearly 2 years old, had frogs in last summer but nothing since. Our newly built pond (using liners) is more graduated depth wise and will, hopefully, be better for any frogs/toads/newts that visit next spring.

Sorry I cannot be of more help though. I do hope you get response from lots of the posters who were about here last year, but seem to have disappeared now.

Comment on My tadpoles by Phil Constable

Phil Constable — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:33:15 +0000

For the first time we have seen a blackbird perching on the pond plants and taking tadpoles. Never seen tghis before and we have had the pond for many years. Is this common?