Any kind of access to water in your garden will attract new wildlife, such as damsel- and dragonflies, toads and frogs to breed, birds to drink and bathe and possibly even hedgehogs to visit. In addition, pond and marginal plants will enrich your garden with colour and structure. Jenny Steel will guide you through the various steps of creating a pond and bringing it alive, including deciding on its right location, digging, lining, filling and planting your pond, with additional advice on its maintenance.
Making Wildlife Ponds – How to create a pond to attract wildlife to your garden
Publication date: 28 October, 2016
Category: Gardening
Paperback
RRP: £9.99
ISBN: 978 1908241 481
Extent: 80 pages
Reviews
A practical, passionate, colour-illustrated guide to siting, creating, planting and maintaining a perfect wildlife refuge.
Oxford Times
Written by a noted gardener and ecologist, the book is divided into various sections, guiding the reader from the virtues of wildlife ponds, the importance of gardens as a wildlife habitat to creating, planting and maintaining ponds of all sizes down to those in containers. Chapters explore and profile the various types of wildlife to attract. Best line: Perhaps the most exciting thing about a wildlife pond is that you hardly need to do anything, except add water, to attract a variety of wildlife.
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Jenny Steel
Jenny Steel, a plant ecologist and natural history writer, grew up in the middle of Oxford surrounded by her five brothers and sisters and an ever-changing collection of creatures including frogs, budgerigars, fish, a pet magpie and, for a short while, a privet hawk-moth caterpillar. She has been passionate about …
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