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from your crops so if i can help the local widlife and the bee hive in the next field and get some help as well we,ll be happy, we have already built a 4foot deep small pond hopeinjg for frogs and toads to help keep the slugs etc down and are now

My recently completed pond has a visible pipe at water level, which I would like to hide with a plant growing down from the rocks above it and trailing into the water. Are there plants I should avoid which would be toxic to fish, newts and frogs

as you can every so often. It is impossible to eradicate entirely, but as long as you keep most of the surface clear, it will not smother everything else. One important point for this pond, surrounded by tarmac, do not let anyone put frogs, toads, newts

steep at one end and sloping at the other?  Maybe a surface area of four metres by three metres?  I'm guessing it will fill up with muddy water.  Could it be healthy, or will it just go slimy?  I'd like to have frogs and newts, and perhaps plant up

is full. Hurry up spring. My compost bin fills up every winter. It’s a lovely wooden beehive type that looks perfect in our tiny garden. It’s sited against the south-facing wall and gets really hot and steamy in summer. The frogs love it and it’s full

. 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

there is not much life in it. In summer the weed is alive with all sorts of wriggling larvae, nymphs and maggots, but now they have mostly descended into the ooze below.By Saturday it was all but empty when two frogs started splashing about in the murky dregs

are helpful to wildlife. There are no limits. A container just a couple of inches is deep is sufficient for frogs to lay spawn. A small basin of water, kept ice free during the day, is useful to birds in Winter. I have an upturned dustbin lid in a depression

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

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