Small Garden Wildlife Pond Design Ideas
They include a wildlife pond an ornamental fish pond a container pond a modern pond and a natural pond.
Small garden wildlife pond design ideas. Here s the simplest of small garden ponds a stone basin filled with water and lily pads. People and wildlife alike enjoy ponds and even a relatively small water feature can bring life sound and beauty to your home but before you start digging there are a few things you should ponder before building your pond. Apr 16 2017 explore jessica bedel s board small garden ponds followed by 861 people on pinterest.
The following is a list of five types of small ponds that can be placed into small gardens. Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife including damsel and dragonflies frogs and newts. She looks at the importance of sloping sides a wide range of pond plants including oxgenators marginal plants tall stemmed plants and plants such as waterlilies that cover the water surface plus the need for some dense low growing foliage around the pond to provide shelter for emerging wildlife.
See more ideas about small garden garden ponds for small gardens. It s cute easy to manage and will still attract wildlife look out for dragonflies and frogs. Your pond needn t be big.
You also need plants that stick up such as irises or equisetum so that young dragonflies can crawl up them. Any pond can become a feeding ground for birds hedgehogs and bats the best natural garden pest controllers. This is an attractive feature for any small garden that creates a haven for wildlife.
This is a mini pond at the wonderful abbey physic garden in faversham. Diy backyard pond ideas can run the gamut from simple container water gardens to elaborate man made lakes. Try not to mix soil with it as the nutrients in the soil will encourage the growth of algae.
Most people won t need to be told this twice but one of the best things you can do to encourage wildlife into your garden is to leave a small area of grass or planting overgrown and undisturbed. You might have to top this up in very hot weather try to use rainwater but it s worth the effort. Conserving water with a rainwater cistern tank mother earth news a gravity watering system can consist of a cistern to save roof top rain water and elevated tanks to gravity feed this water to your garden.