Make a mini pond and bog garden to attract wildlife into your garden.
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A great project for all the family to get involved in.
We had a small overgrown area in our garden which we wanted to attract wildlife to. An old tray had been left there which gave us inspiration to create a mini pond.
We decided to create a mini pond surrounded by a bog garden.
The first job was to clear the area. This didn't take as long as we thought it would. The sunshine helped!
We started in early February so that we would have plenty of time to get a bog garden planted.
We dug the area out, placed plastic liner down, punched a few holes into it using a pair of scissors and then covered it over with the soil.
We then dug an area for the plastic tray to go into and made sure the soil was pushed up to the sides so it was nice and firm.
Then it was time to make the bog garden boggy!!
The children loved doing this as they could just keep adding water! It did get rather messy but we love a bit of mess!
I'm not quite sure why we decided to opt for pale trousers on this particular day though!
We filled the mini pond with water from the water butt and began by placing pieces of bark and stones around the edge. We changed the stones for wood later on.
We bought a few plants for the mini pond from a local garden centre. I really didn't have a clue about plants so replied on advice from the lovely men at the garden centre! I just had a bit of an idea of the type of look we wanted to create.
We then just had to wait for the bog garden to grow.
And it did!
We decided to add some frogspawn. We researched that it would be fine to transfer frogspawn from another pond if it was still spawn. We were so pleased when we saw it change into tadpoles and then frogs.
The mini pond has also attracted older frogs. Even more excitement!
I would highly recommend taking on a project like this. We all still get so much from the mini pond. Conversations, observations, and further plans.
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