Our Garden Pages

What can we say about our Garden. Well it has some grass and some plants, oh and about 6000 Litres of water.

It's evolved over the years. So rather than tell you about it, We'll let the pictures do the talking.

When we moved in, August 1999

A Quick tidy up

Pond number 1 starts to take shape

Finished the first pond

Redevelopment

Now most people would be happy with what we had built. But not us, we decide to replace the Concrete 1/4 circle with something a bit better looking, and decided that we could move the slabs from the corner to the door, and replace them with timber decking.

Deck Built and Concrete gone

Nothing much change in the rest of the garden.

A New pond is needed

Well of course the pond now looked small ! So we started to dig & dig.

What to do with all that earth ?

Raised Bed built from the spoil.

We weren't happy with the bamboo edging, so we went for the rock option, later, and thought "Well what else does a pond need?" So we added a bog garden, and left space for a waterfall.

Bog Garden dug

Testing the water!

Well in typical Scottish fashion we found a bio-filter cheap, so we took the chance to buy it, and set it,temporary, where the waterfall would go. Of course, now we had a filter, we could add some gold fish, joined later by some shubunkins and comets.

Not the order to do it in we know, but we then finished off the waterfall.

Waterfall in Place

Well fish being fish, we landed up with more fish

Baby fishes spotted

The fish were not the only things at it in the pond it seemed

And they grew

Frogs move in

As the frogs and Fishes grew, so did the pond and it's flora.

During the winter, the pond freezes, apart for a small spot next to the waterfall

Snow covered pond

As for the rest of the garden, only changes over the years is a gravel garden at the opposite side from the pond.

And a new shedmaster shed to hold all the tools needed for a garden.

The new shed

If your quiet and hide, you can watch the fairys come for a drink.

Now we have a garden that we can enjoy, hope you have too.

Finished for the moment!

But not for long :)

In April 2006 we had the normal few days of frantic frog activity, followed by masses of spawn.

May 2006 we discovered this little fellow next to the pond, a Palmate newt, we think.

A few changes have been made, to the pond. The decking was raised slightly more off the ground, and the small beach area removed from that edge, allowing the fish to swim right up to the edge.

The corner with the small fir tree was remodeled into a larger beach area.

Some of the inhabitants are getting tame.

During 2007 the pond didn't have any major work done, it was just left to grow and mature.

The frog population grew as well

A few other vistors