frogblog

Sorry about the washer but you enjoyed your self far better outside,love your lupins..great photo,s.........

I' ve always wanted a pond but thought my garden was too small. You've inspired me to create a titchy pond, but how do I get frogs to live in there? None of my neighbours have ponds, its not that sort of a neighbourhood! Could I perhaps buy a couple of frogs from somewhere to get things started?
And how do I make the pond a good place for the frogs to live? Sorry to overload you with questions!

lupins looking great , big looking frogs pond must be suitin em

i love the gribbet on the end, no washing machine and a large family is like having no milk for your teas!! a living nightmare

you have beautiful garden and am loving your blog

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What an interesting Blog!! Lovely shots of your lupins and brilliant dialogue to the photos. You should have a job like David Attenbough. lol. I'm definately getting a pond next year!

I would dearly love to have a pond again, and I am thinking of getting one, but still in the very early planning stage. Great blog and shots tho'.

Well, I for one am glad that you took time out to take these photos - the lupins are stupendous. They grow wild at the roadside here, and people tear them out of their gardens (not easy with their root systems) in disgust. When they bloom next I'll post a photo. Great frogs too. Aren't they fun? We get peepers in the 1,000's in the ponds and ditches here, and if you live nearby it can be deafening while they're mating.

thx for kind comments.
Today, after lots of elbow grease and wet floor, the washing machine is fixed. Hooray for husband! Washing drying fast on line as GB enjoys v summery temperatures.

Mazziestar, I don't think you actively have to do very much to entice frogs once you've got a little pond. They seem to find there own way there pretty much. One of our friends had a really teenyweeny pond, more of a damp hole in the ground - and she had newts! Probably word gets around on the garden grapevine... Maybe, as not many of yr neighbours have one, they'd be especially grateful for yours?
As long as frogs have a way to climb out of the pond (assuming it's a large bucket or something with quite steep sides) they'll be happy. And some big stones or rocks to hide under around the edge I think are quite good too. As you can see our pond is not the size to consider in-pond planting, so that's easy too!
Try checking the Springwatch website to see if they have any tips on making a good frogpond?

So glad someone else has a 'pond' as small as mine. I used the biggest plastic planter I could find at the garden centre - probably similar size to yours. For several years it disappeared in the jungle, and was full of yellow iris when I found it again. Amazingly, once cleared of iris and topped up with water (didn't 'bottom it') it became a pond again. I put in about six inches of pond plant (donated by a friend), and the same year the first frog arrived.
I think it's too small for breeding, but there's a big pond nearby always filled with spawn at breeding time, and I get anything up to 7 visiting. Grandsons love them!

I too have a pond and have frogs in spring, quite a few too doing what frogs do in spring, but where do they all go? i hardly ever see one in the garden but there they all are in spring! Got newts too, 2 goldfish from a fair they've been in there 10 years at least! i wouldn't be without it, my friends little niece loves it and comes round when she's visiting to 'look at your frogs please?' LOL and now my grandaughter is showing an interest, get rid of it NEVER!!

It's wonderful to see wildlife in your garden. I'll have to have a pond I think.

My father in law has an old metal dish about 18 inches across sunk into the ground. he put a little weed from a neighbours pond into it with some rocks for the frogs to climb out. He has had frogs in it ever since

I love to see wildlife in gardens

My partner still has his son's paddling pool in his garden, although his son is now twenty!
When Imoved up here about nine years ago I split the plants in my old pond to pot up and plant in my new pond, which at the time was just an idea in my head. So the pots stood in the paddling pool until my new pond was dug about four years later. By that time the plants needed splitting again. Half went into the new pond and the other half to friends and neighbours. However, some had rooted through the bottom of the pots and bits of root remained there. Now Paul has a wildlife pond in paddling pool, and the flowers on the iris root are looking better than the one in my pond!
My dog happily drinks from the pool while the birds bathe in it too and we often see frogs sitting on the edge waiting for unsuspecting insects to visit it.

My new pond is a big plastic round thing, 88cm across and 50cm deep. Tiny really but I don't have a very big garden plus I don't have the strength to dig all the soil up and lay liners etc. I'll probably badger my hubby into doing one if we're still here in a few years time! My hubby got some tadpoles from his mum, so we shall see if any "grow up!"

I think your frogs are that, as their skin appears to be smooth and not lumpy like toads. (imho anyway!)

So happy all you lovely people have ponds too. We have 12 large fish and our pond is many years old, dug out and lined when children were still at home and John and I had much more strength and energy! They fledged a long time ago (the children that is!) but we enjoy the pond now with our 2 grandchildren. Of course since the little ones arrival (Amy is 6 and Josh 4) the pond has been 'caged' in to prevent accidents. We look forward to the day when they are old enough so that we can sit by the pond and enjoy the waterfall and the fish free from their confines. We have blackbirds who regularly come to bathe but sadly we have never had any frogs. We did once introduce some tadpoles but too late realized that the fish enjoyed their tasty unexpected snack!! Our pond is circular about 6 ft across and takes up half of our gaden but we love it.