Hey Tim, Sorry to hear about your tadpoles :( If you have to choose between duck weed and blanket weed I'd choose duck weed. In my tadpole grow out trough/tub/thing (essentially a raised mini pond) it's under a hundred liters brimming with plants and covered in duck weed but no blanket weed. I'd say...

Early summer project is to create a bog area (no pond). approx 1x3.5m. I'm utterly confused whether to poke holes in the membrane/liner/etc. or not, or fill with peat or not. I suppose it depends on what type of plants you want? It'll be iris, rushes, sedges, grasses, arrowheads and all kinds so I h...

I took a tiny amount of brooklime from a friends pond late last year, but didn't have space for it in the pond. Put it in a floating island in one of my plant growing tubs and it just took off. Last week it finally went into the pond and all the frogs and baby frogs have gravitated towards it. There...

My lobelia just gets eaten so quickly each year I can't bear spending anymore more money buying them as full plants for aphid food. Currently have three pond baskets in pond water in a water feature style plastic tub to see if they'll come back...nothing so far. Picked up some seeds and trying a few...

I've had 3 or 4 pond baskets break when pulling them out the pond. Not sure if this happens to anyone else? I've started double basketing mine which also makes adding a hessian liner much easier. You just lay the hessian over the top of the bottom basket and push the second one into it. Cut of the e...

Just watched the grass carp nibble on blanket weed! It's nice to see mythology and legend finally happen! Ha!

Maybe I'll stop feeding pellets for a few days and see if they feel up to clearing the pond...yeah doubt it too...

Surely that's a bit of a limbo issue at the moment since the precedings are triggered? But don't mind erring on the side of caution for now.

Thanks all. I think this would be worthwhile - I'll put up what's ready to divide and cut soon and see if anyone has anything I don't have. Some of things of the top of my head I'll have are Brooklime, yellow flag iris, nymphoides pelata, fibre optic plant, corkscrew Rush, horsetail plant, pickerel ...

Is there enough interest in swapping bare root plants via post? I've quite a lot of marginals etc and though it might be interesting to swap out some cuttings and bare root plants to help out each other's collections. I'm quite after water Hawthorne at the moment. If there is interest I'll create a ...

I was cleaning out the pond a few weeks ago and my tetra pond dechlorinator blew over when I came inside and pretty much emptied the bottle! :( For my aquariums I use sechem prime which I'm really happy with. It's super concentrated so much better value than other brands. I was thinking of using sea...