r/ponds

I get excited every night to have coffee by our pond the next morning 😆🐸🪻

These soldiers were in the pond section at a garden centre. Pennywort. 🙂

NJ/USA My mini pond was covered with white/pale yellow lilies for a few years and then we had a drought and the deer ate them down to the water line. My pond is low, (mostly no), maintenance, so I don't want any kind of netting, fences or other barrier. Would the plants die if I put them in a tub in the house over the winter? I don't know the variety since they were here when we bought the house. The pink ones didn't come back after the deer got ahold of them, but I'd love an id on them if anyone knows. Thank you!

Editing to add that we get decent freezes here and they thrive in the new extremes of climate change: maybe overwintering in the garage where they're protected from the deer but have the chance to be cold? I hope someone has advice.

Location -Queensland, Australia. All landscaping completed by our small team of 3 people……Pond, wetland, stream, retaining walls, BBQ area and planting.

My pond is finally finished! It’s been through several stages including one enlargement and three liners, and now it’s done. Next summer when the plants have grown bigger it will look pretty lush I think; my tropical oasis in the middle of a freezing cold prairie. One of my plants Is missing because it got stomped on too many times, I’m hoping it comes back next spring. I might make a bog filter next spring but I’m not really sure how to fit one in that will look like it belongs there. There isn’t much space.

It’s a small pond, couldn’t make it any bigger, but I love it. So much better than lawn.

I have a small field which has been used for grazing for at least a century. It has an area that despite the weather has remained mostly green this summer, and in spring was very boggy. The area is also full of rushes. I can’t find it on any older maps, but my assumption is that this was a stock pond which has been filled in. It is about 3m above the stream which runs across the bottom boundary, and the land appears to form a small valley from where this pond would be down to the stream.
The neighbour has a wildlife pond which is to some extent damp all year from the same seep/spring. We have a lot of clay in the soil and a hole dug anywhere will hold water for several days.
How should I go about recovering this pond? I had planned to just go for it with a digger at what looks like the middle and work my way outward, but I worry that I might dig too far or in the wrong place if this was previously a stock pond or even natural?

Just sharing some Water Hyacinth bloom 🌷🪻🌹

I live beside a large forest, with bears, deer, raccoons, herons. So I guess any one of those. It’s about 27 degrees here. The thing is, animals are not tidy and there is no fecal matter anywhere. Only my statues and camera were knocked over. I do have a dog, but he barks at everything so I don’t pay attention. My fave fish is still there.

Thought these would be cooler than a metal heron. So far, so good!

Hi folks, first of all, I love the community rules here, “posts must be about ponds” 😜

I have some of these firkins spare and wanted to convert one to a small wildlife pond for my vegetable/cottage garden. The basic idea would be to cut the top off, bury it partially in the ground, then fill it.

I’m basically wondering if the height is an issue, I see barrel planters are common, but wouldn’t want to create a pond where escape is impossible. Also, are the sloped sides an issue? If so i would have to cut where the central banding is. Could I fill it with house bricks or similar to create levels easily?

Many thanks

The feeder gave out food and the fish got excited, Mario just so happens to be there taking a sip

We’ve manually pulled for a few days, and there just such a strong network that they grow extremely quickly right now. My dad tried an herbicide spray on a small section but it really didn’t seem to have any effect. We want to build more diversity, some plant life is just fine with us but this is definitely overkill.

I had an old bathtub so obviously I dug a hole and dropped it in! Put in some rocks, a few plants and as it’s been so dry I filled it myself with collected rainwater… and a lot of trips back and forth with a watering can 😂
It’s intended as a wildlife pond so I haven’t done anything to it since.
Now, a few months later I’ve spotted plenty of birds drinking, a damselfly and some little things who have made it their home! But what are they? Last photo I think is some kind of Nymph?

Edit: This is in Somerset, England.