Pond Ponderings – Pond Beginnings
By Sherri Eckworth A dream come true… This was very much my husband’s dream – Grahame had wanted a wildlife pond for so long and we were about to fill in a fishpond we’d inherited. So, November 2023 seemed like the right time to get ‘his’ pond underway. With a bit of help from a…
Pond Ponderings – Mass Emergence
With close to 100 dragonflies emerging from the pond this year, Les Carter in Suffolk tells us how the pond came to be! [Emerging dragonfly] We moved to our new home about fourteen years ago, and as soon as we saw the front garden we decided to create a wildlife garden with the primary features…
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 a NEW writer, Gareth Harbottle in Newark, Nottinghamshire
Transition to Wildlife Friendly Gardening I’ve enjoyed gardening since starting with some containers around 15 years ago. I always craved some kind of theme though, an overall objective or colour scheme or whatever, but could never settle on one. Around 2017 though the moment of inspiration came whilst watching damselflies near the confluence of 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…
Welcome to Pond Ponderings – a pond blog by gardeners of all experience levels
Here you will find regular blog posts, Pond Ponderings, about garden ponds of all types and sizes created by gardeners of all experience levels and different budgets levels too. These posts will be honest accounts of the issues and joys that wildlife gardening and ponds in particular can bring, including highlights of which species move…