Ponds

I've probably mentioned before that we have two ponds in the garden at the Barn. I replaced the liner in one of them last year. It very quickly 'naturalised' and in the spring it was full of croaking frogs which meant it was full of wriggling tadpoles in the summer. Here it is now, and it is full of croaking frogs again as I write -

The other pond leaked badly, and was more of a bog than a pond, even in the winter. Sadly, any tadpoles which were hatched in the bog, died as it dried out in the summer. So yesterday, I made the effort to dig out the bog and have laid a new liner. We now wait for some rain to turn it into a pond, and nature to make it look pretty!