I was in the Library with my girls and one of them had picked up a childrens book about Wildlife and handed it to me to read with them. Inside the book I came across something which really appealed to me, a section titled 'Make your own Wildlife Pond'.
It was a project to make a Wildlife Pond from a plastic storage box to attract wildlife to your garden. Reading through the pages I became keen to have a go at this myself as I've always been into nature and dreamed of one day having my own Wildlife Pond.
The first task was to find a plastic storage box similar to that in the book, so I paid a visit to the shops until I found something like these:
The book didn't really specify an
exact size so at the end of the day
it's down to your personal preference.
I opted for a box similar to the
above and the dig began.
I chose a site at the back of
the garden next to the shed
the garden next to the shed
where it wouldn't be disturbed.
After digging out the hole
I lined the bottom with some sand.
Next I placed the box into the hole before
carefully filling around the sides with soil.
After leaving the water a few days
to let any chlorine evaporate,
I added some pond plants.
These were as follows:
Some bunches of Elodea Crispa,
an Iris, some Starwort and a Scirpus Cernuus.
To complete the look
I added some natural rocks around it.
Just behind the pond I buried a tub
with some holes in it and added a bog plant.
If you look carefully in the photo above
you can just make out the bog plant.
