Pond Ponderings – An Emerging Story!

By Alison and Marc Dilnutt We started off with a very small pond about six years ago then in lockdown we went crazy and hand-dug our current pond.  It’s about a sixth of our garden now and we love it. When we dug the new one, we decanted all the water from our old one and kept…

Pond Ponderings – The Bigger the Better

Pond Creation by Susan Payne We moved into our new home 2 years ago, moving from a city centre to the countryside. It is a big plot but the previous owners had simply kept a large rectangle of grass, closely mown with no plants at all. I knew one of the first things I wanted…

Pond Ponderings – A Boat for Wildlife

My Rowing Boat Pond – Sherryl Walters When we moved to the south coast just before Lockdown 1 we knew we wanted a wildlife garden with a water feature. To enable this, when we moved in, we took away a hedge of viburnum to open up the garden to more light. Being near the coast…

Pond Ponderings – Tiny Pond-scape

Tiny PondWatch by Jen @TinyPondWatch Hello! My name is Jen and I run @TinyPondWatch, where I share the creatures great and small that visit my tiny garden ponds on Instagram. How it came to be  I am a passionate gardener, and created a wildlife-friendly garden when we bought our new build home in Shropshire five…

Pond Ponderings – Whiskey Barrel Pond

Ponds for small spaces by Jim Horsfall I created a new ‘pond’ soon after I moved into a new house in 2013, not having much space I opted for a whiskey barrel to turn into a pond (the smell of whiskey was still apparent on brining it home). I put a few bricks in the…

Pond Ponderings From The South Coast of England

We would like to introduce our newest ‘Pond Ponderer’ Daniel Peart:   “I live in Gosport, Hampshire on the South Coast and we added a small wildlife pond last summer in our garden. Within days I was amazed to see how much wildlife soon took advantage of it; from birds to foxes, bees and dragonflies…