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Ideas for the site of my garden pond 2
happy site Perhaps it depends on the weather conditions.  Has been cold here and the fish have only moved off the bottom in the last week.  Unfortunately, I have found 2 dead frogs and I have no frogspawn this year.  I read somewhere that if you get a by Gary Kinch
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22/04/2013 05:39:37
by Dovefromabove
Potted ponds in Thailand
. And I bet you are as brown as a berry after researching all those mini-ponds.  i find plastic buckets from the pound shop make great containers for bog plants and the frogs love them too.if you dig a hole in the border and lower them in. @oldchippy - I by Kate Bradbury
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24/02/2012 20:24:08
by Rosemary Clarke
Talkback: Toad in the garden
YEARS AGO THEY WERE IN OUR AREA,I HAVE ONLY MANAGED TO GET FROGS TOADS AND PALMATE NEWTS.DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO ENCOURAGE THE GREAT CRESTED NEWTS BACK INTO MY GARDEN,[ANY SPECIAL PLANTS ETC]. A primary school in Inverness is starting from the 'ground by kaycurtis
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28/11/2011 18:39:32
by Richard Jones
Talkback: Creating a pond
of advice please. I am building a wildlife pond as soon as is practical, so is it best to do it this Autumn, or wait till the spring. The hundreds of frogs on my lawn are itching to get started. what is the plant in my pond that is green and looks like by Gardenbabe
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28/11/2011 18:41:08
by debbieb
Talkback: Toad tadpoles
-friend-in-weed-is-a-friend-indeed/ We have a beautiful pond that we have kept natural for the wildlife, we have foxes badgers and all manor of birds. We had literally thousands of what I thought was frog tadpoles but from your description they are more likely to be Toads. I will watch by oldchippy
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24/05/2012 22:26:32
by ess
moss on the lawn
frogs, hedgehogs etc. I am collecting the grass when we cut the lawn rather than leaving it on the surface, and making sure that we don't cut the grass too short.. I am raking the lawn vigorously whenever I get the chance (really good for toning by Tigger Tom
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08/06/2012 11:01:08
by gardeningfantic
Grass snake in the pond HELP !
How does one remove a snake from ones pond before it eats all the fish and frogs? Having spoken to our local reptile centre they say if it has been disturbed it will move on. Difficult to check by looking at the pond from a mile up the road. Any by Bored with Bindweed !
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10/06/2012 22:12:48
by FloBear
Slugs and snails
, as it has a path running past it, I put all my young plants by the pond to harden off and none of them have been nibbled.  I'm presuming as the pond is home to frogs and newts and is visited by birds and hedgehogs, any slugs are quickly despatched I'm lucky by Harry Sinclair
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09/06/2012 22:53:14
by Tim Burr
What does Monty think?
're Brits and Frogs and Krauts and all the rest, not just Belgians and teher's been a huge influx of eastern Europeans recently too and that has skewed hpusing costs a sthey put pressure on teh rehntals market.   All brings a lot of money too in spending by Clancy22
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28/04/2013 18:45:30
by Fairygirl
Talkback: Stag beetles
with their mouth open, full of food and sticking to the 6inches of ice we had. One frog returned to the pond and my son said "we'll have frogs this year.""Not with one frog we won't". I replied worried because he's now 13yrs. Anyway, I found a source of approx 100 by angelfreem1976
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28/11/2011 18:43:45
by Richard Jones