At Tidy Mom, the blogger Jessica shares how she made a wooden outdoor planter on wheels. You can also use it as an indoor planter. Some woodworking and painting are required. But, overall, it’s not that difficult.
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I’m writing to show you my cottage garden pond and how I’ve been fiddling about with it lately. A small pond is a lovely thing to have in any garden and there’s advice about them everywhere.
We have had frogs and frogspawn in the past but sadly I’ve seen none now for years. I’m hoping the revamp will encourage wildlife to return. You can see how it looked in 2018 here
by stabbing a few holes in the liner to let the water drain out and then digging the hole a bit deeper in the middle. It’s still only around 30cms deep.
A little deeper in the middle
I relined it and filled it with old pond water and lots of rain water I’d collected.
New pond liner and old pond water
I put stones all around it and thought it looked rather fab.
politely suggested this wasn’t a good idea as the stone edges were a barrier to creatures getting in and out. They look nice but are not as natural and as wildlife friendly as planting would be. I could understand that so I took away most stones and now you can see the edge of the liner sticking up. Stones in the pond are fine and provide hiding places for creatures as well as different levels in the water.
There also seems to be someone on frog watch.
looking good
I’ve decided to plant around the edge to cover the lining so there will be a green seamless circle round the pond.
I’ve planted ferns, astrantias and epimediums to start with.
Ferns as edging
I found two newts in the sludge so fingers crossed.
At first the water was lovely and clear until the sun came out and then it turned into pea soup.
Sunlight turns the water into pea soup
That was solved by throwing in a straw bundle from the garden centre and some oxygenating plants from Amazon. I also bought pond plants from
At Tidy Mom, the blogger Jessica shares how she made a wooden outdoor planter on wheels. You can also use it as an indoor planter. Some woodworking and painting are required. But, overall, it’s not that difficult.
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I don’t really like the title which I have used for this post. Makes me sound full of myself, I can assure you nothing could be further from the truth.
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