How to Make a Wildlife Pond for Pondlife and Nature in your Garden. A guide to creating a wildlife habitat to rewild your garden.
First choose the best location for your pond, ideally away from main roads or footpaths, not constantly in direct sunlight but also not to near mature trees which may drop leaves. Near a mature evergreen hedge is a good place, the hedge provides shelter for wildlife but also acts as a wildlife corridor and a place for birds to nest.
Try to make your pond as big as possible, you won’t regret it, but any size body of water will encourage wildlife and help biodiversity.
Try not to be too tidy in the garden, wildlife loves places to his like long grass and piles of twigs or sticks. I’ve made a log pile and a hibernaculum, Also, plenty of piles of organic waste.
Dig the hole as deep as possible, this stops the water freezing during winter. Various depths also caters for different elements of nature and encourages biodiversity. So have layers of varying depths, like ‘shelves’ around the margins of the pond. This will give you places to put pond plants.
www.pondkeeper.co.uk were very supportive with me in my pond construction and I would recommend them. (They also have a helpline with real people).
Here are some links to my other pond and wildlife videos:
How to make a wildlife pond: • How to make a Wildlife...
Installing the Giant Pond Liner: • Giant Wildlife Pond, I...
My Beautiful Wildlife Pond: • My Beautiful WILDLIFE ...
Gardens and gardening, how to make a pond, garden tour, walking tour, rewild your garden, how to encourage wildlife, biodiversity in the Garden, Gardening UK, A tour of my wildlife pond, the Jurassic jungle garden,
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