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How to Create a Wildlife Pond: Plan, Dig, and Enjoy a Natural Pond in Your Own Back Garden
The best way to attract wildlife to your garden is to build a pond.
If you want to do your bit to support local biodiversity, pick up a spade and start digging. RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond makes it easy to attract and support a huge array of species, with fully illustrated step-by-steps showing you how to plan, dig, line, and fill a simple wildlife pond, alongside alternatives including container ponds and more formal designs. Discover the best mix of plants you'll need to keep your pond thriving, how to make sure that creatures can enter and exit the water safely, and the little extra touches that can attract and support all kinds of wildlife.
Once your pond is ready, sit back and watch nature do its work as the book reveals the creatures that will visit: the blackbird that bathes in the shallows; the wriggling tadpoles that bring the water to life; the bat that soars above the pond at nightfall to feast on rising insects. Every garden should have a pond, and with Kate's help, you'll have everything you need to create a pond that will teem with life for years to come.
If you want to do your bit to support local biodiversity, pick up a spade and start digging. RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond makes it easy to attract and support a huge array of species, with fully illustrated step-by-steps showing you how to plan, dig, line, and fill a simple wildlife pond, alongside alternatives including container ponds and more formal designs. Discover the best mix of plants you'll need to keep your pond thriving, how to make sure that creatures can enter and exit the water safely, and the little extra touches that can attract and support all kinds of wildlife.
Once your pond is ready, sit back and watch nature do its work as the book reveals the creatures that will visit: the blackbird that bathes in the shallows; the wriggling tadpoles that bring the water to life; the bat that soars above the pond at nightfall to feast on rising insects. Every garden should have a pond, and with Kate's help, you'll have everything you need to create a pond that will teem with life for years to come.
- GenresGardening
192 pages, Hardcover
Published July 20, 2021
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August 21, 2021
Great book.
Everything you need to know about creating a pond in your garden or outdoor space to attract wildlife.
Great photographs and diagrams.
Everything you need to know about creating a pond in your garden or outdoor space to attract wildlife.
Great photographs and diagrams.
June 24, 2021
Very informative! Wish it had been available when I made my rubbish pond! I skimmed some parts of the book but would come back to it if I ever get to start again in another garden. Maybe I’ll expand my tiny pond if we’re stuck here...
February 3, 2024
This book introduces so many ideas for creating homemade ponds that coexist with natural animals, birds, plants, flowers, and plants.
How happy you would be if you had one of these lovely ponds in your own garden!
I love frogs, so if I were to build a pond, I would want to have a frog house as well.
In traditional Japanese houses, some people raise Koi Fish in their ponds.
After reading this book, I was excited to think about whether anyone has created an original pond in their garden.
How happy you would be if you had one of these lovely ponds in your own garden!
I love frogs, so if I were to build a pond, I would want to have a frog house as well.
In traditional Japanese houses, some people raise Koi Fish in their ponds.
After reading this book, I was excited to think about whether anyone has created an original pond in their garden.
February 5, 2022
A brilliant read, perfect for anyone even thinking of creating a wildlife pond.
It covers every aspect of pond, tub, bog garden, provides valuable information about how to dig/line your pond, the plants needed, the wildlife that will visit, and any problems you may come across.
It covers every aspect of pond, tub, bog garden, provides valuable information about how to dig/line your pond, the plants needed, the wildlife that will visit, and any problems you may come across.
December 17, 2021
I’m going to create a wildlife garden in 2022. I love all types of gardening, I’m obsessed. Especially kitchen gardening (as I love cooking too). I get my green fingers from my mum and my love of good food from my dad, it’s lovely to share a passion. So it’s no surprise I read a lot of gardening (and cooking) books.
I recently watched a brilliant programme on the BBC called The Wild Gardener, presented by Colin Stafford-Johnson. He’s a well known wildlife cameraman and filmmaker. I was fascinated by the programme and it inspired me to create my own wildlife garden. It seems a bit of a fad or trend at the moment - everyone seems to be talking about wildlife gardening and what difference we can make to the environment and world around us. I hate it when people try to tell me what to do, I instinctively want to do the opposite. But this programme wasn’t like that at all, it didn’t force the issue. It was mesmerising. Inspiring.
This wildlife garden coincides nicely with me keeping bees for the first time, something I’ve wanted to do for a few years now. I’ve pre-ordered my beehive and bees. So I will be reading up on many aspects of wildlife gardening. This book, of course, is all about wildlife ponds which are an integral part of any wildlife garden. The book was informative (covering all the important issues I’m creating a pond) and had plenty of information on native plants and species. After finishing the book I went out and plotted the perfect location for my pond. With a spray painted outline, I now have a plan. The diggers arrive in January…
I recently watched a brilliant programme on the BBC called The Wild Gardener, presented by Colin Stafford-Johnson. He’s a well known wildlife cameraman and filmmaker. I was fascinated by the programme and it inspired me to create my own wildlife garden. It seems a bit of a fad or trend at the moment - everyone seems to be talking about wildlife gardening and what difference we can make to the environment and world around us. I hate it when people try to tell me what to do, I instinctively want to do the opposite. But this programme wasn’t like that at all, it didn’t force the issue. It was mesmerising. Inspiring.
This wildlife garden coincides nicely with me keeping bees for the first time, something I’ve wanted to do for a few years now. I’ve pre-ordered my beehive and bees. So I will be reading up on many aspects of wildlife gardening. This book, of course, is all about wildlife ponds which are an integral part of any wildlife garden. The book was informative (covering all the important issues I’m creating a pond) and had plenty of information on native plants and species. After finishing the book I went out and plotted the perfect location for my pond. With a spray painted outline, I now have a plan. The diggers arrive in January…
August 10, 2021
Written in a really pleasant flowing style. The authors passion for the subject is clear from the first paragraph and infectious! Plenty of practical information with very high quality illustrations.
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