Calling All Frogs 🐸 Hop On Over To Our New Wildlife Pond 🐝🐸🐞
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- Today I am delighted to be installing a small wildlife pond to our garden and here is a link to a preformed pond on Amazon UK which is the sane as the one we bought at our local garden centre:
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The plants we chose for our wildlife pond are:
Annuals:
Water Lettuce
Perennials:
Nymphaea Aurora (Water Lily)
Houttuynua Cordata Plena (Orange Peel Plant)
Phalarus Arundinacea var. Picta (Gardener’s Garter)
Evergreens:
Equisetum Hyemale (Dutch Rush)
Scirpus Cernuus (Fibre Optic Plant)
Oxygenating Pond Weed
I’m very much hoping we will have frogs 🐸 sometime in the future 😊
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Have fun in your gardens!
Janette, The Enthusiastic Gardener
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Today’s music:
“Et Voila” by Chris Haugen - available on the TH-cam Audio Music Library. - บันเทิง
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Oh! how delightful the pond looks and planted up it looks settled already. Pretty plants and rocks. Looking forward to seeing you plant up around the pond. Come on frogs where are you 🐸🐸🐸 😁
Morning Penny it’s been such fun doing this. I do hope those frogs 🐸 find it. I’ll do my best anyway. Hope you’re having a great start to your week. I have this week off 🎉 love to you 🥰
I had no idea how to make a pond. It’s very pretty. We have a little solar fountain, we got at the thrift store. We have it in a salad bowl, and when it’s sunny it squirts really high. It would look good in a pond. The only problem is on a windy day we lose all the water. Love your garden.
Hello Nancy, thanks for joining me today. I had no idea how to do it either so I had to watch loads of videos from other TH-camrs 😂 I have been thinking about a little solar pump or air stone, trying to find out more about that, there are lots on Amazon and they aren’t that expensive. It’s been fun doing this. Have a happy week 🩵💜
Start with something small. Maybe an old container or piece of pottery such as a large bowl or old sink.. you can seal the opening. You don’t even have to put it all in the ground. Use some rocks or large gravel around it. Then put a small aquatic plant such as the lettuce plant and add decorative pieces as Janette has done. Maybe a broken flower pot for a 🐸 to live in.
Janette, you are so adventurous! Of course, sweet Richard is by your side to help! Thank you, Richard, for being such a great hubby!💖
Hey there Dawn and you made me smile 😊 he is indeed a very great hubby, but you don’t see him off camera rolling his eyes at my ideas 😂 and also all the times he says a downright flat “no” 😂 hope you’re having a great week 💜🐸
Bravo Janette, we visited Chelsea spectacular as ever but disappointing British weather.☔ Love the wildlife pond we put one in, a similar size about 3 years ago in lockdown, it is visited by lots of insects, frogs and birds, it got stinky so we put in a air stone to get oxygen in and also some aquatic snails 🐌that eat the algae. It looks brilliant you've done a fabulous job. Thank you for sharing,🐞🌻🌱
Hello there Jane and thank you! I was thinking of adding some snails to help keep it clean so thanks for that great tip. I’m not familiar with air stones (I’m not familiar with any of this 😂) so I’ll look that up. Do you need electricity though? That would be difficult but I’ll have a look. I’m so encouraged that yours has done so well and you have frogs 🐸 which is my main aim. Thanks Jane 😊🩵
You know that 's how it starts Janette. Just a small water feature. Then maybe just a couple of small goldfish. I now have a small goldfish pond and a large koi pond with 10 koi. Love it! Bonny
Ooh Bonny do you? How lovely! We used to have two big fish ponds in our old garden with koi, many years ago now, they were lovely too. Ideas do tend to grow bigger though don’t they? Lovely to chat as always 💜🐸😊
I LOVE the pond and all the plants! Now you need a frog entrance video! 😃🥰 Also a sign "Frogs Welcome" 😆 would help them find their way!! 😃
😂😂🐸 yes if I see any they will definitely have their own episode Peggy 😂 it’s been a lot of fun. Hope you’re having a great week 🩵🐸💜
Great job Janette. I hope it won't be too long until the wildlife come to their new home. I think it was on Gardeners' World that I saw a man sink an old mug in the ground then filled it with water and he said that every bit of water helps. I have a frog in my garden that makes me jump when I'm doing the watering. I didn't realise that pond plants were so expensive but I love that lily. Take care and have a great week.
Hello Wendy, yes I saw the man with the mug on Friday’s Gardeners World too - I should have just done that and saved myself 3 days of work 😂 but I’m loving it and fingers crossed for the 🐸 they will probably make me jump out of my skin too!! Have a great week 🩵💜
Lovely patterned rocks round your way!
Hi Marc, I know! Amazing what I find down our bridle path on my dog walks … that’s where I found my two 🦩 flamingos by my fountain too 😂 one each on separate days!! Hope your week is a good one 🩵💜
Just beautiful and really loved the colours of stone,plants look fantastic already ,looking forward to next week 💕💕
Hello there Joyce and happy Monday to you. Yes, those rocks and stones are very lovely and colourful! Quite good treasures to find. Hope you have a very lovely week 🩵💜
you did a great jobs it looks beautiful. i'm sure you will get lots of frogs. and the plants you picked are also beautiful. thank you for sharing with us. can't wait to see it when its all filled in with the other flowers.
Hey there Sonie and thank you - it was a fun project and I hope it will thrive and get visitors 🐸🐸 hope you’re having a lovely week 🩵💜
I am so glad you are doing a pond I have a pond and it has frogs and last year I had a frog that would come in my house and I would talk to him I have not had much luck with plants in my pond so will be interested to see how you do with yours have a great week both of you
Oh Christine how cute is that?! 🐸 I’m so delighted to hear you have frogs in yours, that’s my no.1 goal!! I don’t know if we have the right pond plants, no idea! But of course I expect it’s going to be trial and error with this for a while. Just been advised to look at adding an air stone so I’ll look into that. Thanks for watching and have a great week 🩵💜
brilliant janette, just a tip, do not add yellow flag iris as they are so invasive, they actually grow out of the water and start growing in the ground 😂 apart from that it looks great, bet it won’t take long for wildlife to move in!
Good morning Andrew and thanks so much for that great tip, I definitely won’t do that then!! Thanks for watching and for your help, I’ve never done this before 😊 have a great week 🩵💜
Ha Richard is as excited as you 😄. What a lovely project, Jeanette, and it already looks so pretty. It's one of the first things I did when I moved here 4 years ago, the same size pond as yours, and I wouldn't be without it. The birds love it too and come to bath. It's a real treat and quite mesmerising. I'm sure you're having great fun with that space. Many thanks for sharing 🙋♀️
Hello Kim and I’m so pleased to hear that you have the same size as us! Very encouraging news. It’s been a really fun project and yes, I do think you are right, he is as excited as I am 🐸🩵 wishing you a lovely week 💜🩵
Wow Janette, you did a fabuloùs job. I love the water lettuces, they are adorable. I hope you get frogs, I bet the birds will come too. Can't wait to see how you plant around the pond. Hope you and Richard have a wonderful week.
Hello Adra, your message went into spam for some reason!! Those water lettuces are cute. I’ve started my planting, it’s been a really good fun project, can’t wait to show you end result. Have a great week 🐸💜
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I can't wait to see the plantings. I guess we gardeners are plant nerds.😁
Good morning Janette. I would love to have a wildlife pond! Can't wait to see how it goes. Fingers crossed for frogs but also to see birds and insects making use of it too. I burst out laughing when you accidentally turned the hose on spraying yourself 😂
Good morning Sharon 😂 it’s a good job I didn’t swear or that would have been edited out 😂 I’ve had such fun putting this together, and the pond was inexpensive - the plants weren’t though 😂 fingers crossed big time for 🐸 frogs indeed. Maybe I’ve inspired you to add one too? 🙏 hope you have a very lovely week 🩵💜
Great job, Beautiful plant selection, Its the bees knees.
Thanks so much Nicholas, I gave my fingers crossed 🤞 that I’ve done everything right!! Have a great week 💜🩵
Khu vườn của bạn có những bông hoa tím tuyệt quá ,rất vui được nghe bạn chia sẻ kinh nghiệm làm vườn .
Hello there and thank you for joining me and my new wildlife pond which I’m most excited about! Have a lovely week 🩵💜
Good morning 🌞 absolutely loved this episode ❤️ thank you for your wonderful humor and such interesting videos. Little Lottie 🐾 checking everything and Mum saying no.... 😂 You have made a great start to my day. Looking forward to next week's plantings the pond is wonderful and yes a fantastic addition to your garden .. xxx very best wishes to you all and a hug for Lottie 🐾❤️
Hiya Val, your message somehow ended up in spam!!! So apologies for delay in responding. Lotte is now using the pond as her personal drinking bowl, she’s so cute. I’ve started planting too, it’s certainly been lots of fun. Hope you’re having a great start to your week 🐸💜
Aww thank you for your reply, can't wait to see the pond progress, hug to you all 🐾 💝
Hugs right back Val 🤗
So nice . Come froggies... ❤
Hi Christelle, call them louder for me 😂🐸 let’s hope so! Have a great week 😄
Hello Janette and Richard. The pond looks , great. You always come up with new ideas. I cant wait to see the water lily flower and I do hope some frogs come.. You made a good selection of water plants . I will be looking forward to see the planting around the pond You busy little bee that.s what you are
😂😂 it’s because I watched a whole week of Chelsea gardening ideas 😂 I hope frogs 🐸 come, that’s what I’d like the most 👍 thanks for watching Olga and have a great week 🩵💜
Awesome idea! Thanks for the many giggles I got from you & Richard. If frogs don’t come, you’ll always have dragonflies, birds, etc sipping from it. (if you have to, over the summer, be looking for frogs around parks or lakes & take them to your pond.)
Hi Lindylou and glad to make you smile 😊 yes whatever wildlife we have will be lovely and frogs would just be the icing on the cake!! I know I find and bring home quite a few things while on my dog walks, but I’m not sure about bringing frogs home with me 😂 hope you’re having a great week so far and thanks for watching 🐸😊
Hi Janette, I do believe Richard needs to be upgraded from unenthusiastic to enthusiastic. Also if you're going to add tap water let it sit for 24 hours before adding it so the chlorine dissipates. Hope the frogs show up soon !!! 🐸
😂😂 he certainly did come around to the idea didn’t he? We did use rainwater to fill it up after all the rocks and gravel went in, and I’ll make sure to use rainwater if I have to too it up. Thanks so much for watching, it’s been such fun doing this 💜🩵
Lovely video 😊 … what a great addition to your garden! I’m sure you will see lots of insects and birds using the pond in no time. The plants look lovely too. You even won Richard over to the idea …. Lottie, not so much 😂
😂😂 Lotte has now come round to the idea and thinks I’ve installed her own personal water bowl 😂 it’s been fun though and I’ve just started to plant around the edges. Hope you’re having a great week so far 💜🐸
Hi Janette, I made a wildlife pond in our garden back in March. I was fortunate because there was already a hole. This was because the previous people had a water feature with a large pot and underneath was a hole with a large plastic container which, held the water and pump. I was pleased not to have to dig because parts of the garden is clay. The water feature didn't work so I was simply going to take the whole thing out, then I suddenly thought that I might as well make use of the container and hole. I bought a few plants oxygenating like yours a mini waterlily (which is a similar price) and a iris. My Richard keeps looking for frogs, but none have found the pond yet. Janette once again a job well done 👏 😊😊😊
Oh what a great idea to recreate the hole into a wildlife pond. I think we are going to have to exercise some patience with our new ponds and let nature take its course. But you might get frogs yet because apparantly they go searching for new ponds around the end of June. You must let me know if you do!! Hope you’re having a great week Pauline 💜🩵
Thank you for this video, Janette! Your yard is fantastic. So much beauty in a relatively small space. Love your new addition of the pond. I know it will be absolutely stunning when you finish all the plantings around it. Eager to see the wildlife that finds your new pond. Also, the table and chairs that you and Richard created are just beautiful and unique. I love watching your videos! So much creativity, humor, encouragement and inspiration in each video!! ❤
Margie, thank you, such lovely comments 🙏 we’ve been loving the table and chairs, just need to find a nice parasol and maybe a little BBQ. I’ve already started planting round the edges and ive ordered some little extras for the frogs 🐸 I’ll show you next week. Hope you’re having a great week 💜🩵
How lovely I would have been very tempted to buy the bigger one but it looks lovely. Love how your hubby came round to your way of thinking 🤣
Hello Dolly, yes I kind of wish I had got the one size up, but I was kind of letting him have his say too 😂 it’s been fun doing this. Hope you’re having a great week so far 🐸💜
How lovely! I doubt it will be long before your first pond skater, water boatman or whirlygig beetle drop in and enjoy their new home! I got a shiver when you got hosed. I wonder if a small boat level would have worked on the raised flat part in the base of the liner? I can't wait to see it all planted up around the edges and see how 'The Build' naturalises over time. (I think you won Richard's heart over nicely as it be came a joint project! Er, I mean 'Build'!)
😊😊 thanks Tony, I got a shiver then too 😂 I do hope I get some action as you describe, any of the above-mentioned are welcome 🙏 thanks for watching ‘the Build’ and I’ll give you an update next week. Take care my friend 🐸🩵
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I'm looking forward to watching it all develop. A lovely addition to your garden already full of amazing plants and treasures.
@tonycritcher3419 that’s so nice, thanks Tony 🐸
Hi Janette, what a lovely idea! Maybe Richard wasn't quite as excited as you but he always comes round. Quite a job to do all that replanting and digging out the hole but it looks great. I love the plants you've chosen, especially the Orange Peel Plant and those rocks with all the layers were a good find. I'm looking forward to seeing what you choose for around the edges. Another trip to the garden centre and that can't be bad. I hope your little froggy guests don't keep you and Richard awake at night with their partying. Hope you have a good week. Much love, Bron xx
Good morning dear Bron, I’ve seen him outside checking the pond when he doesn’t know I’m looking 😂 it’s been such fun and I don’t mind if the frogs are noisy 😂 I have this week off work so might pop to the garden centre today - hope you’re having a great week 🐸💜
A croak of frogs! Summer evenings will confirm I am right😊
Hello Patricia, you are not the first to tell me about the noise frogs make!! Oh dear 😜 hope you’re having a great week 💜🩵
Oh it’s beautiful and I cannot wait to see some frog’s 🥰🥰
Ooh I do hope so Jasmine 🐸 I would be delighted if that happens 😊 hope you’re taming a great day so far 🩵💜
Hi Janette! Your pond looks fantastic! ⭐️ You are so organised and methodical in everything you do, it’s no wonder your projects always turn out so well. ⭐️ I’m sure the neighbourhood frogs will be delighted to take up residence!! 🐸🐸🐸
Many years ago we stayed at a gîte in France which was in a water lily nursery. The gîte was surrounded by ponds. The water lilies were beautiful and every night the sound of the frogs was absolutely deafening!!! 🐸🐸🐸 It was an amazing experience and one we’ll never forget.🐸🐸🐸
I’m sure you’ll have lots of fun watching all your pond visitors! Enjoy! 🐸
😂😂 Fiona, I could live to regret this idea then if the noise is deafening, how funny! But thank you for your lovely comments and I’m hoping you’re having a great weekend 🤩💜
we need more of Richard , he is a star ...the interplay so fun between you two. love it
Aww thanks Alan, I’ll ask him to do a golf tip of the week or something next Monday 😃 thanks for watching. Hope you’re having a great week 💜😃
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener mmmhh, i was thinking a ( fast ) nature pool build , for a contrast? ;)
Interesting 😃
Your garden is really coming into its own. What a beautiful addition the pond is, can't wait for the planting video.
Lovely video Jeanette and Richard ❤
Oh thank you so much Jack, that’s very lovely of you. I’ve started my planting and so far going well. Have a great week 💜🐸
The pond will look wonderful. I’m glad to see you have added another fern to your garden - the Equisetum. Recent investigation has shown that the Horsetails, rather than being a sister group to the ferns, are, in fact ferns themselves.
Hello there Mark … I didn’t even realise that is a fern! Serendipity! Well I am glad about that for sure. It’s been such fun doing this and I have this week off work so I can get on and plant the edges too. Hope you have a fabulous week Mark 🩵💜
How exciting! It’s going to be so pretty!
Thank you Dawn, it’s been so much fun to do! Have a lovely week 💜🐸
Thanks for sharing.
If you cut a 13cm x 13cm hole at the bottom of a fence or gate, frogs and hedgehogs will be able to visit and eat your snails & snugs, and you’ll be doing a favour for the environment.
Hey there Kerry and great tip. Unfortunately we have gravel boards at the base of all our fences, but I do have a little couple of gaps here and there, I’ll have to show you next week. I’m excited for frogs though, I’m going to do my best to attract them 🐸💜
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I had that problem with gravel boards so I got a little archway hole cut at the bottom of a wooden gate. Looking forward to seeing more. I have the goodies to make a wildlife pond but not got around to it yet. Your video has inspired me to get cracking.
Oh yes, you must get on and do it 🐸 I had so much fun. 🤩
Beautiful job! Looks nice! We have 2 fairly large ponds in our Illinois garden. I'm thinking that if you saw what looked like a frog in your garden last year it could have been a toad. Toads usually sit in the vegetation waiting for bugs to come along, whereas frogs usually sit in the water as their skin can't dry out. I looked into my rhubarb patch last week and was surprised to see a toad hiding there 😳🤣
Hi Alyson! Aha! Well in that case it probably was a toad, it was at night and it jumped behind a large flowerpot when it saw me 😊 and then I didn’t want to scare it so I left it alone. It’s fun learning all about this. Hope you’re having a great week so far 🩵💜🐸
Great project, i think even Richard was excited. Well done both of you 😊
Hi there Werner, and yes, he did quickly come around to the idea didn’t he? 😄 and I’ve spotted him on more than one occasion out there having a look when he thinks I’m not looking 😂😜🐸💜
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this video 😊 The pond turned out beautifully 💚 Thank you so much for sharing ☺️
Thank you so much for watching Carmel, it was a bit of a long video today. Can’t wait to share the planting around the edge with you. Hope your week is going well 🐸💜
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I’m looking forward to seeing the next video of the plants around the pond 😊 Good week so far, thank you, great weather we’ve had for the bank holiday 🌞 Have a good week ☺️
Great job as always!
Thank you,
And thank you Donna! Thanks for visiting my garden today 🩵🐸💜
Hello hello my friend, good morning.
I’m at the part of the video where you mentioned you have to mode the cypress, and then I thought ., see! A gardener never leaves her garden alone , that’s what normal people won’t understand, we always move things around , cause every week we get new ideas !! 😂😂
Poor Richard has learned, is not a suggestion., is more like , when can we do it ! , happy wife happy life Sir , 😊 . I love how the pond turned out . I can’t wait to see the first frog video .
Oh yes Max, I know!! That is now it’s 3rd spot in its short life 😂 I bet I could count on one hand the number of plants I have which have stayed in their first position 😂 hope you enjoy the video and have a wonderful day 🩵💜
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I totally understand my friend , my wife tells me , leave the plants alone !! . How they suppose to establish and grow lol . Have a good week my friend .
Love your pond
Great job 👏🏻 fingers crossed for the frogs 🐸 I’m sure once they know it’s there you’ll have an army of frogs 😅❤
Hello!!! I hope my pond is as successful as yours 👍 and just a small army will be enough 🐸😂
I was amazed that you got all those plants in but it looks fabulous! We’ve never seen frogs in our garden yet we’ve got tadpoles in our pond 😂 they’re starting to get their legs now - so lovely to see them developing. You will have a lot of pleasure I’m sure. Good job well done 😊🏴
Hey Pamela and you have tadpoles!!! That must be so much fun to watch. Do you have fish too? I’ve read that the fish can eat the tadpoles? It’s been a lot of fun putting the pond in, I have my fingers crossed the wildlife like it 🤞 hope you have a lovely week 🐸💜
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener I don’t have any fish as I wanted more of a wildlife pond. Although I do think it would be nice watching the fish swim around. 😊
I agree Pamela, I don’t think the two mix - it’s got to be wildlife OR fish. Plus my pond isn’t big enough for fish anyway 😃💜
That is such a great addition to your garden.
Hello and thank you! I’m loving it so far, keep going out to check on it. So far just a couple of mosquitos 🦟 🩵 hope you’re having a lovely week so far 🩵💜🐸
Hi Janette, I have a small wildlife pond & the frogs turn up every year as the weather warms. I thought I had just one & called him George, but one day I saw 5 little heads. I've never had frog sporn though. Along with the visiting hedgehogs I'm sure my garden has less slugs. As they say: build it & they will come 🐸🦔
Oh wow Barbara that’s so encouraging to hear!’ 5 little heads 🐸 adorable. I have my fingers crossed here 🤞 exciting. Hope you’re having a great week 💜🩵
Hi what a lovely garden you have and now your little wildlife pond is the icing on the cake. By the way I live in the south west,we get frogs in our big pond alway around about January to February. So you may see the same.❤
Hello there Sandra and thank you so much!! I’m guessing your frogs must be breeding Jan/Feb time? Or perhaps just come out of hibernation from somewhere in your garden? Exciting stuff. Hope you’re having a great day so far 🐸🩵
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener yes they are breeding we get so many tadpoles in the pond.and we have had about 20 frogs all mating. It’s quite a site and can be noisy 😂😂🐸🐸
Oh that sounds marvellous Sandra!! 🐸 any tips welcome!
What a garden center!! How lucky you are to have such a magnificent source for all things “garden” and how fun to add a pond. I’m sure your wildlife will be thrilled. (Equisetum: ek wee see tum; as in equus or horse, or horse tail as it is sometimes called. I do not know its habit in England but here it can be very invasive if it escapes into the wild). I love the variety of plants you have chosen especially the Fiber Optic plant; have used it in summer pots. If I were a frog, I’d do my best to make it to your lovely pond! 💚
Hello there and the garden centre is amazing isn’t it? We have quite a few really good ones around here but that’s the only one with a fish centre too. We do have some great smaller nurseries too. Very fortunate as I know so many people have to travel quite some distance to theirs. Thanks for the pronunciation too 👍😊 so glad you like our pond 🐸 have a very lovely week JC 💜
Good morning Janette, Richard and Lotte
Your pond is fabulous. Definitely frogs will eat your snails/slugs. Although i am no officianado on anything,they do say animals like a bit of green to aid their digestion. Maybe try her on a bit of lettuce,endive etc. Like cats like cat grass,i guess. My neighbours cat did start to chew a plant of mine with spikey leaves and couldn't leave it alone. It came to no harm because i believe they eat just what they need. After all, Lotte does not chew on any other of your plants😂😂I love your choice of pond plants. Will be eager to see how it develops. Did not really tune in much to chelsea because,as people say, ' life gets in the way'. We all use that phrase without thinking,but of course everything is life😂😮🙃🥴💞👏👏💞
Good morning Sharon and you do have a good point, I do give Lotte vegetables but could give her them more often 👍 I will do that 🙏 thanks for watching, it’s been good fun putting this pond together, I never thought I’d have one! Hopefully the frogs 🐸 will find it 🤞 going to enjoy putting the plants round the edges next. Have a really lovely week 🩵💜
Janette, you sould like me, you see an idea and then need to do it 😉 I have been thinking about a small pond for years 😆
I will see how you make out and then go from there 😉 Now you just need a "frog crossing " sign 🤣😂😉
Well I am setting you the challenge that this is the year for your new pond!! We can compare notes and the sizes of our 🐸😂 do hope you do. Have a lovely week 💜🤩
Hi Jeanette , love your pond, great job❤ can’t wait to see your progress. Having wild life in the garden is soooo good and yes beneficial 😊
Hi Ramona and thank you 🙏 I’ve started on my planting around the edges, it’s been a lot of fun 🤩 hope you’re having a great week 💜🩵
Hi Janette, hope your pond turns out as you hope, when we lived in France we had a pond that attracted everything, mainly frogs, and I have to tell you, they drove us insane, they never stopped croaking, morning noon and night, also, the biting insects, were on a mission to eat us alive. Anyway, I hope that english frogs are quieter. xx
😂 Jeanette you are not the first to tell me about the crazy frog noise 🐸 oh my goodness, could be I’m creating a monster 😜 I will let you know of course!! Oh dear 😅 have a lovely week 💜🤩
Love your Videos,
Maxine thank you 🙏 that’s so lovely of you 🩵 hope you’re having a brilliant week so far 🤩
Can you do a combination of flat rocks and plants along the edge? Very natural looking!
Hi Marilyn, that’s a very good idea!! Thanks for watching and hope your week is going great 💜🤩
A croak of frogs😊
😂😂😂
It looks fabulous. Maybe you could cut a little welcome 🐸 door out of the bottom of your fence.
I’ve been checking around my garden and although I have gravel boards under all the fences, there are definitely little gaps here and there so 🤞 it’s been fun. Hope you’re having a good week Wende 🩵💜
Janette, you are absolutely adorable in your hat. So cute. One of the most important things in adding a wildlife pond is the liner. Y’all choose a perfect size, especially the depth. Great choice of plants as well. I’ve built five and I have loved each one. Yours is great especially for little insects, they have great places to rest will visiting.. I love that Richard added the snail. It’s so cute. Y’all did an exceptional job with the build. Your garden is so beautiful and impressive. It has every element that makes a perfect haven for y’all and the wildlife. 🐝🐌🦔🐸🦟🦗You and Richard could create a beautiful Chelsea display.
I wish mine was already established. Building from scratch last year was rough and I’ve added a large area for my cottage garden room this year. But it’s been fun designing. My daughter is ready for me to stop moving my pots around 😂but it’s getting them in the perfect spot that’s important. Oh, she got me a small tiller! I’m so excited. It works great for what I need it for.
This video has truly been a delight to watch. I can’t wait for the reveal of the finished project. Just a suggestion but maybe ask a neighbor to donate a frog from their yard. Then it would be local. lol I brought home eggs in a water plant😮I had huge bullfrog’s before long... They would swim across the pond during rainy days. So much fun to watch. Have a great week. 💚💜
Oh I’m so glad you think I did it all correctly, you must know if you have made 5! It does take a lot of time and effort building a garden from scratch, I do agree! But your tiller is going to be an enormous help to you and less back breaking work. I don’t think we’ll ever stop moving pots and plants around, that’s what us gardeners do best 😂 so lovely chatting as always 💜🩵
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Oh yes, so much time and hard working. It's raining again so I've not done much. I love doing wildlife ponds. I love designing them and of course adding all the plants and all. The digging is the hard part. Oh yes, moving the pots is a must. Lol
The digging is definitely the worst part 🤣🤣
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener lol definitely. My largest was big enough to swim in. My husband and I had gone to the nursery to get some koi and plants. When we got home my daughter was playing in it. 🤣😂 she was probably 13. But we dug every bit of it with shovels and added a 20 foot long waterfall.
@heartofdixieprepping4797 wow that sounds amazing 🤩
Love the pond and the cute snail sculpture. What would have been even better than snail is purple head! Just joking! hehe Beautiful garden. Won't be long and you'll see a frog or two. They somehow find their way.
😂😂 Colleen that made me smile, I had forgotten about purple head for a moment! Wonder where he is now 🤔 yes, I need a Frogs Welcome sign 😂🐸 hope you’re having a great week 💜🩵
Great women think alike! I was just thinking of putting a similar pond in my garden. I have the the preformed pond but still to make the hole. But I have been told to please do put in some rocks inside RIGHT NOW. If some critter should get in , it won’t have a way to get out. So please do it right away!
Oh yes, my rocks are in and I’m ready 😂😂💜
Janette. The pond looks amazing. Great job
Hey Geraldine, thank you so much. It’s been a lot of fun! Hope you’re having a good week 💜🩵
What a lovely idea ❤ I get very tiny frogs & lizards in my tiny garden , even though no ponds! They probably live under my decking ? Really enjoyed watching you both put plants in your pond 🥰
Ooh do you Hilkka? That’s encouraging to hear. Thanks for watching, I had such a lot of fun making the pond. Hoping for 🐸 like you have. Hope you’re having a wonderful week 🐸💜🩵🤩
I love what you’ve done with it. It looks great. 👍🏻
Hello Stevie and judging by your name, you know all about ponds so I’m very pleased you think I’ve done a good job. Can I ask you a question? Is our pond too small for fish? It’s 50 litres (about 11 gallons). We think it’s too small even for anything very tiny but I’d love to hear your thoughts. Thanks so much for watching 😊💜🐸
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener it’s probably a little too small long term for goldfish as they get quite big. They also produce a lot of waste so work better with a filter. You could put white cloud mountain minnows in there in the summer but you’d need to bring them to a little tank inside for the winter, which might be too much hassle. 😀
@steviesfishandplants thanks Stevie, that’s just what we thought - too small. I’ve watched lots of TH-cam videos where people have little more than sink size or small barrel size patio ponds and they put lots of goldfish in but i dont think they’re big enough. I’d hate to have distressed or stunted fish. I did look up very small fish and I’ve watched videos about white cloud minnows but I don’t want to have to bring them inside for the winter so it’s going to have to be a no fish pond here. Like you say, they also produce waste so at least I won’t have to worry about that. Frogs on the other hand are very welcome 🐸 thanks so much for your expert help Stevie, much appreciated 💜🩵
@@TheEnthusiasticGardenermy pleasure.
Wow amazing 😊
Good morning and thank you for joining me today, hope your week is off to a very good start 🐸♥️
The frog you saw last year will be back when he hears about the new pond 🐸🐸🐸🌱🌱🌱🐝🦋🐦🐦⬛
Ooh Helena let’s hope so 😂 and he can bring all his family too 🐸🐸🐸 thanks for watching and I hope your week is brilliant 🤩
Hi Jeannette, what a lovely video! And your pond looks absolutely fabulous! Love the choice of plants! We are thinking of a wildlife pond too but over here in Switzerland we have loads of mosquitoes. And even in the three days of rain we have had, mosquito larvae are in every rain puddle that builds up. So I’m very anxious to add to the problem. But it really would be lovely to have one I’m sure of it! Looking forward to seeing how you’re getting on with it throughout the year! Happy gardening!
Hi Mari and thanks so much. I think you should try a wildlife pond anyway because if there are a lot of mosquitos then chances are their predators will also be attracted to your pond to get a free meal 😄 well worth a try I think 😄 hope you’re having a great week 💜 so far 🐸💜
That looks like Swallow Aquatics.😊
Hi Clare, it wasn’t Swallow Aquatics - although we did go there but didn’t film it 😊 - this was Maiden Aquatics which is in Summerhill Garden Centre on the A127 at Billericay. Are you local? 💜
Hi Janette👋, I finally got around to catching up on TH-cam after our vacation and I’m glad I did🫶. Such a great idea to have a wildlife pond and I love Richards enthusiasm 😂.Great job to the both of you, it looks amazing! Can’t wait to see frogs 🐸, it won’t be long now🙌. We have them in our pond less waterfall, they love the to hide between the rocks. I love the water lily, so pretty. Please keep us updated on any wildlife sightings🥰, you build it and they will come😊, have a great rest of your week.Great job guys!
Hello!!! Did you have a lovely holiday? Where did you go? Thank you so much, I’ve had such fun doing this and as you can see Rich enjoyed it too, that was a surprise as he was always against the idea of and more ponds (we had 2 in our last house). You have a pondless waterfall! That’s my dream, I watch TEAM Aquascape on TH-cam all the time. I’ve just finished planting around it as I have this week off work. Have a lovely rest of the week 🤩🩵💜
Janette, we went to Kentucky for a model sci fi convention ( hubby loves all things Star Trek and Star Wars) and then drove to the Corvette museum then on to Nashville and Memphis to see Graceland. We did a road trip and we must have drove over 2000 miles😩, lots of singing and sight seeing along the way 🤣. Yes we have the aqua scapes pondless waterfall, we installed it our selves. You and Richard would love that as a project. Everything you need is in the kit, just lots of digging and make sure you have electricity for your pump and led lights if you add any. I can’t wait to see what you’ve planted around the perimeter,it’s beautiful and really makes a statement 😊. Enjoy your day my friend 🫶
@elizabethgreco-nieves oh wow Graceland! How amazing, sounds like such a wonderful trip. Exhausting too I imagine. Love those Aquascape ponds!! I’ve finished planting around the edge as I’ve had this week off work. It’s been so much fun. Waiting for the wildlife now 🐸🐝🦔🍄
lol 😂 very true I need a vacation from my vacation 😆. Ohhhh can’t wait to see the plantings and wishing you a successful wildlife sighting 🐝🐞.
@elizabethgreco-nieves 😍😍
Wow! Janette what a treat. Thank you for showing us how to have a wildlife pond in such an easy and systematic way. Your sweetie of a hubby is so helpful and cute. Blessing to both of you. Looking forward to the part 2 of this video. 🤩
Good morning to you AllGood and so pleased you enjoyed this. I’ve had such fun with it and looking forward to showing you all my planting next week. Hope your week is a good one 💜🐸🩵
Janette what a wonderful addition come on frogs !!!! The pond plants are such an addition to the entire garden. Richard made me laugh out loud with his eye expressions. I hoped this year to have purchased water plants im several hours away from a garden center with pond plants🙃😠. It’s inspiring me to make the trip and buy some . Ive had a few and winter is hard on my choices I just need to study up. Enjoy the water, always inspirational !!
Hello Teresa, that makes me even more grateful that I have everything close by if you have to travel several hours! Can you buy online I’m wondering? Of course, you have the largest garden water feature ever with the West Fork! Have you been out boating yet? A lovely sunny day here this morning and I have this week off work too which is very lovely so I can get on with my planting around the pond. Hope you have a lovely day and I hope your Open House this weekend goes really well for you and Reg. Please share on a video, it’s the next best thing to be not being able to visit personally. Love to you both 🤩💜
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Janette! I could order on line 🤔I’m weird about feeling touching plats etc. once these next few days and weeks pass we have fun filled days in June (too many lol) my hopes is to get away and chill. Yes we’ve had a few lake days yet our weather had had rainy patterns except of course this week ha ha when I’m fussing with the garden and our home I’m attention to detail crazy 🙀🫣🤣.
My plan is to get a few clips of the weekend and share. Reg is excited and nervous exposing oneself as an artist is somewhat stressful in a good way! We will have fun our small community of locals it’s like a party for us. Praying for good weather for the garden strolls . Jim’s Garden looks ready too.
Hard to beat the natural plants and wildlife of a river. Very blessed for sure.
Enjoy your week planting !
@gardeningonthewestforkwith8994 you have a well deserved fun time both of you 💜🩵
Awesome. Love it!!
Thanks so much Jacqueline - I had so much fun doing this - just waiting for the frogs 🐸 now 😂💜🩵
I haven’t put my pond in yet. Waiting for my help to dig the hole. I’m learning a lot from your experience.
Oh how exciting Sunita, I’ve loved doing mine. I’m certainly not an expert though but I’ve done tons of research and hopefully I’ve done everything right. Waiting for the frogs now 🐸😂 have a great week 💜🩵
Richard bro you really struggle to hide your excitement mate. Nice job Jeanette you have put us in the notion well I have to run it by her indoors first.😊
😂😂 J you are right! He loves it now, oh I do hope you do this too! Do let me know if you do!!! Hope you’re having a great week so far - we can compare frog stories 🐸😂💜
Will do we are across the pond in North Coast of N Ireland. Frogs are as scarce as hen's teeth over here I reckon St Patrick must have driven them out with the snakes. Your gdn is amazing Chelsea gdn standard in my humble opinion.👍
😂 “as scarce as hen’s teeth” 😂 what a great saying J 🇮🇪 and thank you for your lovely compliment!!! Get outside and start digging your pond hole 🎉🎉🎉
@TheEnthusiasticGardener Just ordered it on Amazon now with our weather we won't need watering can, it will fill itself. Pics to follow. Take care now all the best Johnny n Rhonda.
@jranger63 oh wow!!!!!! I’m delighted!! 🤩 You will love it 🥰
You got a lot nice hope you get some frogs
Good morning Cynthia, I hope so too! Have a lovely weekend 🤩💜🐸
Lovely video Jeanette, so relaxing to watch as you do everything so carefully. Your wildlife pond looks so attractive. Hope the zinnias are doing well too, from my packet of 40 seeds 75 came up 😂. l have just potted on 4 large pots of them for the family , (hope they like Zinnias😉) and still have masses left for the garden !!
Hi there Chris and thank you! I had so much fun doing my wildlife pond and I’ve started on the plants around it. But the zinnias are not such a success story I’m afraid. Sounds like you’ve had far more success than me. Nothing at all in the pot on the left, I do have seedlings in the right one though. But I had 2 packs of seeds and I think I have maybe 10 seedlings 🌱 never mind, I will nurture those!! Hope you’re having a great start to your week 💜🐸
Looks lovely we have a pond we put watercress in there as well it flowers and grows just from a bag from the supermarket 😀xx
Hello there, I had not heard of this and googled and yes! It’s a natural pond filtrator and oxygenated. What a great idea so thank you 🙏 hope you’re having a great weekend 🤩💜🐸
I did love the themes especially the woodlands for the Chelsea Flower show! This is my favorite show every year. I’ll be rewatching ❤ I thought of you when I saw the woodland displays. I’d so love to go. 🐝🦔🐌🍄 I do love my woodland ponds. I’ve got to redo them somewhat. They are surrounded but absolutely gorgeous mushrooms of all kinds including red. 💚❤️💜
I loved the woodland gardens too, well I loved most of them!! We have Hampton Court Flower Show coming up next. I love watching both because of course they are 6 weeks or so apart so you get to see gardens with different plants in. Hope you’re having a great week 💜🤩
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener Thank you. Looks like continuing rain and thunderstorms. ⛈️ I have pots that are just waterlogged and they have proper drainage but absolutely no sun. My yard is woodsy so I can’t really plop them in the ground… I am gonna till up some areas for wildflowers but beyond that there is no more space with sunlight. Is the Hampton Court Flower Show available to watch in the U.S. during the event? I guess I could google that lol but I’m with you on “most” woodlands, there were a couple I was not crazy about. But I definitely love the theme of it. 💚☺️
I don’t know if you can watch Hampton Court in the USA but there are bound to be TH-cam videos about it. It’s at the beginning of July. 🩵
@@TheEnthusiasticGardeneroh good. I'll be watching for it😊
Hampton Court is this week 😊😊
Lovely Janette I’ve got a pond but it has fish got frogs
Oh wow Iris! Mine’s not big enough for fish unfortunately. Hope you’re having a great start to your week 🐸🥰
Hi Jannette, just back from holiday and catching up with vlogs, wow the pond is beautiful, always wanted a pond but with my clay soil no way, but maybe next year I'll do one in a pot, looks fab and all that wild life it's going to be amazing. Xx take care ❤x
Hello Helen, I hope you had an amazing holiday and a good rest? I think a pond in a pot is a brilliant idea and sure to attract just as much wildlife, after all, they don’t care what the pond is made of 😂 thanks for watching and have a lovely weekend 💜🤩🐸
@@TheEnthusiasticGardener thanks Jannette x❤️👍
One bullfrog came to our pond the day after we put it in but a raccoon came and ate him. Other frogs I put in it were eaten by birds, so I gave up. Here in California.
Oh no Nita! Wildlife is cute, but it’s also brutal, I’m sure you’ll agree. Best not have frogs in California 🐸😜 hope you’re week is going well 🩵💜
Hello Janette! How adorable! I love your new pond. Do you have to worry about algae building up or do the plants help prevent it? I hope you see some frogs soon. If I were a frog I would like to live there 😂. Will all the plants minus the lettuce over winter in it? I’m sure you have it all figured out. Enjoy! 💕💕
Hello Lauren and thank you!! I don’t know if all the plants will stop the algae or not. In fact today I went and bought 3 more bunches of oxygenates just to be on the safe side. I might look into buying some pond snails which are supposed to keep your pond clean (who would have thought I’d actually be purposely adding snails 🐌 into my garden 😂) but I don’t really want to add a pump as (a) we have no electric there (although there are solar versions) and (b) apparently frogs prefer still water. So I’ll have to see. But I think the plants will overwinter in the pond. Thanks for watching - hope you’re having a great week 🩵💜
I love you new pond! How many litters is it? Do you have a local pond you can get some water from to add to it? The pond water could have frog eggs in it.
Hi there Therese. Thank you! It’s only 50 litres which is about 11 gallons, I forgot to say! I did suggest to Richard that I go and collect a jar of silt and water from our local park’s pond but he said best not to, you don’t know if you’re bringing in something harmful? He said I need to have patience 😂 he’s probably right. Thanks for watching and I hope you have a great week 🐸💜
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Thank you Rose Mary 💜🐸🩵
In my tropical climate, this pond would require constant cleaning bc of the rabbits and birds using it. Hopefully, you will not encounter any trouble like this. We have an explosion of wild rabbits, that even the red hawks can't keep up with. 🧐🐇
Oh goodness me Topaz I can understand then why you wouldn’t want one in your area!! Your wild rabbits do sound like an invasion don’t they? But thanks so much for watching and I hope you’re having a great Monday 🐸💜
Beautiful, I always wondered what will happen after days of rain, will it flood?
Hiya Barbara, well I did think the same thing and Richard has assured me 🤞 it will just overflow and sink into the flowerbeds. So I just hope he’s right 😂 have a wonderful week 🐸🩵
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Hello there and thank you so much for joining me in my garden today 😊 this was such a great fun project and I’m starting to plant around the pond edges now. Have a really great week 🩵💜