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Mar 2021
9:28pm, 19 Mar 2021
71,599 posts
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Hanneke
That camelia attracted a lot of attention once on the trolley in the shop. Extraordinary it hadn't been snapped up!!! Right by the door!
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Mar 2021
10:17pm, 19 Mar 2021
9,712 posts
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jda
Heaps of frogspawn in the ponds. (Ponds sounds a bit posh - there are only two cos it’s a split level terraced garden, not cos it’s huge. Only a couple of feet across each.)
I’d love to have a real newt - and not just for the thread - but have never seen one in the wild. I have read they don’t usually mix with frogs, you only get one or the other.
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Mar 2021
10:46pm, 19 Mar 2021
71,600 posts
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Hanneke
I made a pond last summer... There was both a frog and a newt in it. Not spotted at the same time... So far, no frog spawn or any sign of anything else.
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Mar 2021
8:06am, 20 Mar 2021
24,673 posts
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Lizzie Whizz
I found a newt in our gas meter box once. Not sure who was more surprised!
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Mar 2021
8:45am, 20 Mar 2021
13,955 posts
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geordiegirl
jda my in-laws have a small water feature in a little wall they built to separate the veg patch they have a newt in there sometimes babies too but one stays. I’ve only been lucky enough to see it a couple of times.
In our old house we had a newt come to visit but such a rare treat.
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Mar 2021
8:51am, 20 Mar 2021
71,605 posts
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Hanneke
I think newts are more illusive than frogs... I curiously await the outcome. It is only a small pond: 2 metres diameter circular, but added so much wildlife and enjoyment, it is unreal... I did think it was a bit small after making it, so I made a bog garden as well, with a gunnera!!!
Lots of those massive dragonflies laying eggs last year. I believe their larvae, which take two years to pupate, eat spawn and tadpoles...
Don't think a bigger pond would have made a difference to all of that, as max size would have been twice as big... Still a bit small!
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Mar 2021
8:53am, 20 Mar 2021
71,606 posts
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Hanneke
Eagerly waiting for postie to deliver my newt poles so I can go Nordic Walking for the first time ever.
Watching instructional videos, which is a newt.
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Mar 2021
9:21am, 20 Mar 2021
8,877 posts
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BaronessBL
I made a tiny pond in the garden (hardly even a garden more of a patio really) of the house I used to live at. At the height of amphibian population there I had 13 frogs and 3 newts - plus the occasional toad. We now have a 'proper' pond in the house we are about to move from with fish in it but I'd much rather have had frogs and newts and so on!
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Mar 2021
9:28am, 20 Mar 2021
7,467 posts
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The Great Raemondo
The pond at the last place we lived before this was a total toad hot-spot - in the spring it was positively heaving with them.
We had a couple of resident amphibians before rebuilding the pond and steam here last year, but I've only seen the one since (and unfortunately it was dead when I found it, it think it probably froze during the cold snap).
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Mar 2021
9:40am, 20 Mar 2021
17,678 posts
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Sharkie
There was already a small pond when we moved in but Raffo decided it was in the wrong place and made a new, improved pond on the other side of the path. One of the key features of our garden is that it's wildlife friendly and the new pond caters for that. We have frog spawn most years and newts too. Not as many newts but we definitely get them.
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