Pond life…
Claire April 4th, 2008
This seems to be my latest fascination – the pond in my garden. When we were looking round the house one of the main things after initially walking round was having a look at the garden. Our landlady Christine is very relaxed and sounded really happy that I wanted to make the garden look nice. it’s been bugging me all winter that it was a mess, but slowly I am starting to bring some sense of order to it. I have loads of bulbs that aren’t growing that I will get rid of, and after much debate have decided to lift some slate that was laid in a rather randm fashion over a bit of what was once the lawn and grass it. Christine also told us that the frogs came back to the pond each year, so I have been keeping me eyes peeled for signs of life for a while. The frogs were back about a month ago, but the last few days have seen a real flurry of activity, culminating in a large amount of frog spawn appearing yesterday. There seems to be 4 frogs in there, and as we dicovered a couple of days ago, newts too. 
I need to get some more oxygenating plants in there, and would love a waterlily. Vicky has also offered me some of her snails too, so I shall see if they can clean things up a bit for me in there. Maybe I need to get a life, but I keep wondering over to the window to have a look and see what’s hapening in the pond 
(our garden is level with the cellar so we get a great view from our dining room window).
I once saw David Bellamy (a childhood hero) going on about spring being nature’s orgy – everything getting out there and reproducing. Well, as a testament to much frog watching, I can certainly agree with that!
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I know what you mean, I’m obsessed with our pond too, especially since the frog spawn and tadpoles appeared. They’re lovely aren’t they?
Will have to get the plant and snails over to you soon x
Lucky you, having a pond. It’s something I’ve thought about, but I’ve no idea where I’d cram it into my overcrowded garden. Maybe I’ll make up a half-barrel. Don’t forget you can come round and help yourself to chunks of my perennials if you want things to add to your garden.
last summer in the garden i was walking around barefooted and the grass was quite long. I trod on something slimy and squidgy and I quickly lept in the air it was a frog. I was horrified because i thought i had squashed it, but luckily it lept of up the garden. I dont know how it survived, I am glad it did.
It must be lovely to have a pond. I know my children would love one.
Hi Claire…oddly enough while going back over some old posts, I found you…I mean some of my really old posts…I apparently was quite rude by not going back to check on comments, and was doing so today…and I found your pond…I love ponds, frogs…the plants…good luck with it all…lucky girl, frog spawn…you know Iris in a pot do quite well…
Sandi
I LOVE frogs, last year I found a teeny tiny baby frog and brought it into the house (with much excitement) and was met with ‘so what?’ from my daughter and husband. *sigh* I’d love a pond – a huge victorian style one, but have no room for a washing up bowl out in my teeny garden. One day, eh?