I'd be lying to try and say that I'm not finding this challenging. I'm best now to start mixing mortar and laying a row of recycled bricks. Yes, I have wet feet.

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Drifting into quieter places where the world slows down—watching ducks glide across still water like small moving poems, leaving soft ripples behind 🦆🌿💧📸

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🌱 Struggling with murky waters or lack of oxygen in your garden pond?

Curly-leaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus) might just be your answer!

This stunning aquatic plant not only enhances the aesthetic with its wavy leaves but also plays a crucial role in ecological balance.

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The first Newt found the new garden pond.

Lissotriton vulgaris
Lille Vandsalamander
Smooth Newt

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A buttercup leaf turned into a tiny nursery! 🐸 My garden pond is full of life this spring — dozens of toad tadpoles (Bufo bufo) are resting and grazing on the floating leaves of marsh marigold (Caltha palustris). These tiny creatures will spend the next weeks slowly transforming, growing legs and absorbing their tails before venturing onto land. Garden ponds are crucial breeding habitats for toads, frogs, and newts, helping support declining amphibian populations.

Een dotterbloemblad als kinderkamer! 🐸 Mijn tuinvijver zit dit voorjaar vol leven — tientallen paddenvisjes (Bufo bufo) rusten en grazen op de drijvende bladeren van de dotterbloem (Caltha palustris). De komende weken ondergaan ze een spectaculaire metamorfose: ze groeien poten, verliezen hun staart en verlaten uiteindelijk het water. Tuinvijvers zijn onmisbaar als voortplantingsplek voor padden, kikkers en salamanders, en spelen een belangrijke rol in het beschermen van deze kwetsbare diergroep.

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It has been bothering me for most of a year that the old garden pond got trapped in the cat aviary. Moving it would be a pity because the edge planting of Marsh-Marigold and Meadowsweet thrive too well and the cats love their large tasty water dish.
While the net prevent the cats from hurting birds, Damselflies, Dragonflies and Toads it also kept all of the wildlife from getting to the water.
So I bought a used pond liner, patched it up, and dug a new pond.
It turned out a little bigger than expected, I think it's about 1000 liters (264 gallon).
I still need to build a small solar-powered waterfall, dig out a shelf for a low water level swamp area, and hide the edge of the liner, but for now I have to wait and see if it holds water.

#GardenPond #Biodiversity #VildMedVilje

That wasn't on the plan.
I've emptied, cleaned out and refilled the garden pond.

Sacha was fretting that she hadn't seen any of her fish this year. I was concerned that the water was very murky.

So, I was talked into a 'quick job' that's taken all afternoon.

Certainly no fish found, so we've obviously been feeding the local magpies.
I got a fair amount of sludge out of it, but perhaps not as much as I expected.

Thankfully this horrible job is a once in 5 years affair normally. It's a chance to review our anti-predator defences as well.

Now - I stink of mucky pond water and my clothes are filthy. Shower? Certainly!

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It must be Spring! We have some froggy action in the garden pond....
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Spring is truly here — the pond has its first toad spawn! 🐸 The long strings of black eggs winding through the water are the unmistakable sign of the common toad (Bufo bufo). Unlike frogs, which lay eggs in clumps, toads wrap their spawn in long double-stranded strings around aquatic plants. Even a small garden pond can play a vital role for amphibians looking for a safe place to breed.

De lente is echt begonnen — de vijver heeft zijn eerste paddeneieren! 🐸 De lange snoeren van zwarte eitjes die door het water kronkelen zijn het onmiskenbare teken van de gewone pad (Bufo bufo). In tegenstelling tot kikkers, die eieren in klompen leggen, wikkelen padden hun kuit in lange dubbelrijige snoeren rond waterplanten. Zelfs een kleine tuinvijver kan een cruciale rol spelen voor amfibieën die op zoek zijn naar een veilige plek om te paaien.

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