Inspired by a post I saw on here the other day, I decided to dig a wildlife pond in a slightly "dead' part of the garden. I've kept as much of that plant as I can as the bees loves it (plus it grows like wildfire anyway). Still needs a bit of tidying up and importantly, some rain! Happy with the result though.
My back is shagged but worth it.
by Barleybrigade
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Hard to tell without a close up but I think your wildfire plant is Alkanet.
Ah the garden pond. It’s a slippery slope!
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enjoy! They are very satisfying to build and watch.
That’s a great change of space. Love it ❤️
Well that was worth the effort much better…good work
Pic three… Why did you put dirt in the pond?
We have flooded potholes bigger and deeper than that. however as they say location!, location! location!
Honestly I don’t know how deep you made it , but good luck with it. I hope it thrives and you can attract some frogs or toads to assist in garden slug duty.
You could ask your neighbour if you could set up a rain collection off their roof there. Maybe into a water butt with the overflow into the pond? Maybe not but just my penny’s worth of an idea.
I read that the best way to increase biodiversity in your garden was to add a pond. It’ll be lovely when plants have settled in etc.