By Bluemagnolia
United Kingdom 
ideas for tiny ponds please
I have a very small garden but i would love a tiny pond, big enough to put a couple of fish in and attract wildlife, any ideas please about the smallest i can go for and what else i would need, thank you.
15 May, 2010
Answers
Yes, I'd agree. Fish may also be more "fragile", so if I was you I'd set up a small pond, for example we've used an old half barrel with pond lining material. The frogs found it all on their own. If you're lucky you may get newts and so on too. Enjoy it!
15 May, 2010
Weeding was it a barrel from a brewery? or from a GC? Would like one for nursery, work with children with special needs. Water is so soothing.Please have you any photos? Sorry Blue didn't mean to take over your question!!
15 May, 2010
No, not brewery, or at least not recently!
It was actually in the garden when we moved here. You can buy them at GCs though, or try asking on your local freecycle website?
There should be some photos of it on my homepage, it's not very grand but I love it! It's full of tadpoles of all sizes at present.
15 May, 2010
The pics are not directly on my homepage photos, but go to my blog called "Frogblog" from May last year and you can see them.
15 May, 2010
Thank you.
17 May, 2010
blue if you go to www.naturalengland.org.uk they have a booklet to download all about ponds its called Garden ponds and Boggy areas:havens for wildlife. Theres loads of info in there
17 May, 2010
first welcome to GOY. If you look at my blog Wildlife area transformation 3 you see that I used an old tin bath in the garden. If you look at rogers blog you will see that he used 2 washing up bowls. A word of caution though, wildlife and fish don't mix. Its one or the other! My pond is strictly for wildlife
15 May, 2010