Pond Life

Pond dipping can provide hours of education and entertainment – offering children all the fun of rock-pooling without the need to drive to the sea-side – but like anything else which involves ...

For many people, a pond without fish is an impossible idea and choosing them can often be one of the most rewarding aspects of water gardening. Although there are many different varieties available, ...

With natural lakes and wetlands disappearing from the countryside at an alarming rate – over 70 per cent of the UK’s ponds have disappeared in the last hundred years or so – it is small wonder that ...

Frogs have a special place in the hearts of most wildlife pond-keepers if only because they seem so very willing to reward our efforts by using our ponds so readily. Secretive outside the breeding ...

With their lush floating vegetation and elegantly showy flowers, water lilies are probably the best known and most instantly recognised of all aquatic plants and make a huge contribution to the ...

Around 90 per cent of the health problems and deaths in fishponds can be put down to poor husbandry. Having taken the trouble to select your fish carefully avoiding any obviously diseased or damaged ...

While frogs have almost made the garden pond their own, the other British amphibians have generally fared less well faced with the rapidly dwindling availability of natural wetlands. The situation is ...

Water gardens like all gardens; suffer from the attentions of plant eating insects and other pests. Although the closed nature of the pond environment imposes its own constraints on dealing with ...

There are probably few things quite so disheartening than having established your beautiful fish or wildlife pond only to see its inhabitants decimated at the claws, jaws and beaks of hungry ...