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...

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....

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...

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...

With their lush floating vegetation and elegantly showy flowers, water lilies are probably the best known and most instantly recognised of all...

Natural wetlands have been disappearing from the British countryside at an alarming rate over the last fifty years or so, which makes it hardly...

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...

While frogs have almost made the garden pond their own, the other British amphibians have generally fared less well faced with the rapidly dwindling...

A brightly coloured dragonfly zipping across the surface of a pond is one of the iconic images of a British summer - though in some parts of the...

Few issues divide the ranks of pond-keepers quite so readily as the topic of pond snails. To some they are nothing more than an aquatic version of...

Water gardens like all gardens; suffer from the attentions of plant eating insects and other pests. Although the closed nature of the pond...

There are probably few things quite so disheartening than having established your beautiful fish or wildlife pond only to see its inhabitants...