Archive for the Attracting Wildlife Category


How to attract frogs to your garden

Frogs live in in a variety of  places, including your backyards. Creating a frog friendly environment around your garden can be fun and it’s easy. If you decide to do it and i hope you will, frogs need plenty of moisture, shelter and food. This means planting native trees, shrubs and ground cover, using mulch on [...]

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Attracting more than ornamental fish to your pond

Attract wildlife into your backyard instead of just keeping Koi or Goldfish. To the uninitiated a fish pond is simply that, a fish pond. Experienced pondkeepers, however, know that this is only the tip of the iceberg and many design the pond to attract wildlife, birds, mammals and frongs etc. A fish pond or probably [...]

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Difference between A Pond and a Water Feature

It is common place in the pond keeping world to become somewhat confused between the terms pond, fish pond, water garden, fish pool etc. In the majority of cases the terms are interchanged and are actually describing the same thing. To the purist however there is a difference.   I’m not a purist and must admit [...]

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Birds, Fish Ponds & Parasites

I recently received an email from a lady who asked for my advice regarding making a bird bathing area in her pond.  I’ve got mixed feelings about this! On one hand hand birds using your pond or waterfall as a bird bath adds a touch of beauty and nature to your back yard. On the [...]

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