Jun 3, 2021
Random Dialogues From A Pond Bucket
‘During the past 100 years, the countryside has lost almost 70% of its ponds, resulting in the critically damaging reduction of a major form of habitat’ Wildlife Gardening for Everyone: RHS & Wildlife Trust
There is a wealth of wildlife that depends heavily on ponds for success.
Swoopers, surface suckers, and pluckers to a pond may include:
✔️pond skaters
✔️water beetles
✔️snails
✔️mayflies
✔️caddisflies
✔️damselflies
✔️dragonflies
Remembering also, frogs, toads, newts (60cm depth), and birds.
We have a pond at the allotment, and one planned for our wildlife garden too.
In the meantime, inspired by Surrey Wildlife Trust and #30dayswild, two years ago we created a pond in a bucket. It actually took a while for the wildlife to arrive. I’ve since filled it with some aquatic plants and sunk it in the ground. I put a few stones around the edge and twigs in case anything fell in and needed to climb out with support.
In 2019, I entered our wildlife garden into a local competition and it won a silver award.
“Mum are you seriously entering the garden into a competition, really?”
“The pond bucket will be a winning feature!” I joked.
“It’s just a bucket with water in though.”
“Watch it grow”
Jane Tyson
