Hi Lynne,
It's nice to hear of other sites that have ponds on their plots. I made one last year and it is the delight of my allotment. I am totally hooked on it and spend as much time just gazing into my pond as I possibly can. I never realised just what went on in a wildlife pond. I have watched the tadpoles grow into frogs, I have seen newts and I was lucky enough to have a dragonfly hatch. Unfortunately it had just hatched when I asked my husband whatever is that thing on one of the pond plants. I know all the things that people say about dragonfly larva but haven't found it has harmed my pond. I also have a fish in the pond, named Sunny. He came from nowhere, and I got so hooked onto my pond I have actually made a website for it where I waffle on about all the things I see in it. Because of Sunny I then made another wildlife pond, just for the frogs, but unluckily or not, depends how you see it, I had the plants from my friends pond, when she cleaned it out and lo and behold, I now have about 20 more baby fish. Her fish must have mated and the eggs must have been on the plant. I had many more fry, than 20, when they first hatced but it looks like nature has taken care of some of my problem. I had to transfer some of the babies into the big pond, with Sunny, so I now have two ponds with fish in them.
Yes, and I do have names for some of the other fish too, and names for the frogs too, but must admit they tend to be called Freddie's and Freda's and of course Norman the newt.
I will stop now, as I do tend to waffle on for hours about my ponds:)))
