When we bought our house a few years back we inherited a massively overgrown garden which has been very difficult and dare I say it expensive to control. Over the colder months we have had a really nice chap coming to us who has broken the back of the work. He is also an aquatic expert which means he has been able to tackle the large pond at the bottom of the front garden. Last Summer it was almost impossible to see any water. It took him weeks to drain it and remove years worth of sludge and I did worry that the wildlife would miss out this year because it had been totally emptied.
I need not have worried because the newly grown lush young pond plants are chock-a-block with frogspawn and the water is alive with hoards of frogs.
Let's hope Miss Mittens doesn't cotton on.
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Cleaning ponds is a mammoth task, but well worth it. They attract so much wildlife.
ReplyDeleteEvery garden should have one.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely that your pond got a new lease of life, and that wildlife has returned. I hope you can keep Miss Mittens away :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteI'll do my best. She has only caught a frog once before.
DeleteWhat a great area! I can only imagine how beautiful it will be when everything is fully restored. I love, love, listening to the frogs. We have a creek that runs below our property and it is a frog haven and many migrate to the backyard proper as well. There are some summer evenings when you can even hear yourself over the din of the frogs. I absolutely love it. And what a lovely photo of Miss Morgana! ~Robin~ (TheCrankyCrow)
ReplyDeleteAh thanks Robin, lovely to hear from you.
DeleteHow wonderful to have a pond full of frogspawn and other life! Sounds like it was well worth clearing out.
ReplyDeleteIt was. Hopefully it will serve the local wildlife well.
DeleteWhat a beautiful garden. Yay for the pond. I agree that every garden should have one.
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