Category: Ponds

Whether you’re considering encouraging newts to your garden, or have found that newts have made a home in your pond already, there’s always the same question that crops up: Are newts good for garden ponds? The answer isn’t as cut and dry as you would hope, but if I can lay out the pros and…

Between the Spring and Summer seasons, newts will often be on the move to find a pond to breed in. If you have water in your yard or garden and have noticed some new arrivals, you could be confused by how newts got in your pond. It can quite a bizarre event when you consider…

Have you found a random toad or frog in your garden or backyard, but are puzzled as to how it got if you have no pond or water source? Well wonder no more, as today I am going to explain just why you have a toad in your garden but no pond.  I will also…

A few years ago, I dug a pond in our backyard as a summer project. After lining and filling it with water, I added weeds and fish, then sat back to enjoy the wildlife.  What I wasn’t expecting though was how within weeks there were frogs – and not through my own making! I couldn’t…