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Yesterday I topped up my small pond with a hosepipe, something I prefer not to do if I can avoid it. In warm dry weather the rate of evaporation from the surface of the pond and especially from the leaves of all the plants growing out of the pond, can be quite high. When the
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Can anybody identify this floating plant with lovely white flowers? I discovered masses of it forming matted rafts in the Shoulder of Mutton lake at Wanstead Park. The way it’s spreading suggests this invasive floating plant could be troublesome and not a t all suitable for a small pond, but I’ve put a small amount
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Hi all I have had a lily root or tuber, whatever its correct name which I originally bought in a fish pond supplies section of the local mega-garden centre. It’s in a basket in my small pond, but the fiish have disturbed it badly, so I have pulled it out. The problem is that the
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Eggs – Southeast England, pond Originally uploaded by AndyRob These green eggs were laid by something as yet unidentified on a water iris leaf sticking out vertically from the shallow end of my small pond. Share and Enjoy:
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Giant Tadpole in a Small Pond Even the smallest of ponds can support a batch of tadpoles, but its another thing how many of them will survive in the small environment to reach the stage where they successfully crawl out of the pond as frogs or toads. If you look carefully at the developing tadpoles,