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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

-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

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

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

, 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

'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

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

you see. I am having similar problems with slugs and thought my remedy would be a resident hedgehog but a friend has just advised me to install a mini pond to attract frogs and wildlife and this should sort out my problem with the slugs I'm not sure

resident hedgehog and loads of frogs in the garden. Tried again this year and had very successful germination only for them all to disappear only three days later. I know it's a perennial question but does anyone have any ideas.   What is really odd

We have a raised pond one side is on the patio then steps down to a small patio the garden side is a rockery.  As the pond is square and has an overhanging stone top it is difficult for the frogs, toads and newts to get in and out.  We would like