Unwilding
May 28, 2022
HUGE congratulations to local garden designers Urquhart and Hunt, who won Best of Show at Chelsea this year - and at their first attempt! What fant...
Listen To The Sound Of Pond Life
November 28, 2017
Who knew pond life was noisy? I just love ponds and can happily spend hours sitting by ours watching the extraordinary drama played out by a vast c...
Pond Plants for a Pond with a Liner
April 2, 2015
We used a butyl liner for our new pond, partly to see the difficulties it might cause. In the past we've used a really good product called Bentomat...
A New Pond
August 29, 2014
The landscaping around our new house has been coming along very nicely. The meadow areas have been very exciting this year and the forest garden is...
Freshwater Habitats Trust
September 16, 2013
The Freshwater Habitats Trust is the new name for Pond Conservation. I went to their very jolly rebranding presentation on the Thames last week. Th...
Not Great Weather for Our Garden
March 22, 2013
Spring in SomersetLooking at our garden you'd never know it was spring. It's a smidge ironic that global warming seems to have resulted in tempes...
Pond Conservation
November 27, 2012
A charity to support
Hookgate Cottage Build
June 5, 2012
Our new house and garden
Mini-ponds
November 14, 2011
Mini-ponds for mini-beasts
Batman
August 5, 2011
comes calling
Pond Story Update
May 3, 2011
it's all kicking off down at the pond
Moving On
December 8, 2010
Different values
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