Lower garden pond with glad in foreground.

lovely picture with all the different leaf shapes and the sunlight

Great pic Chris.

Chris, your pond looks so health, do you have any tips for us.

Hi Ams. I think the water lilies help a lot. The main thing is to have a lot of the pond shaded for much of the day. In do have to fish out blanket weed every few weeks in the summer. Sunlight encourages the weed and I suspect our hot weather does too. I don't keep fish because we are often away. All wildlife are welcome though.

Thanks Chris, I recently bought a small water feature just to experiment with aquatic plants, oxygenating and marginal plus water hyacinth. I still get algae even though there is hardly any free space. Yesterday I found a big frog has moved in, I love frogs.

Your pond looks fantastic Chris, looks like it's always been there !

Very lovely and natural looking - l like the way you have grass right down to the water's edge.

Hi Chris,

I am a journalist with a publication Inshore Ireland and Castel Espie one of the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust centres over here have written a piece for us on how to build a pond....can we possibly use your photo??? If so can you send it to me in a jpeg format. I will send you a copy of the piece when it is published and we will put your name to the photo?

Please advise ASAP

scott@inshore-ireland.com