Planting A Paradise For Wildlife Around My New Pond 🐸🐝🦔🍄

[Music] I had such a lot of fun last week installing a new Pond and it's been so good to chat to you all as well I've had loads of great comments and lots of good advice lots of tips and tricks and dos and don't so it's all very helpful I do think that I forgot to say that it was 50 L it's 50 L upon the one that we have installed and it's I think that works out about 11 gallons or so it's lovely I love it I run out first thing in the morning to have a look at to see if there's anything here and the whole experience has been an awful lot of fun and best of all quite a lot of you have said that you're thinking of doing this as well so that has made me very happy what I need to do now is plant around the edges and make it a nice enclosed Haven for wildlife at the moment it's very bare we need to try and cover up the edges a little bit but I've been shopping around my garden I've been walking around so I've got quite a lot of things in that are getting a little overcrowded so I'm going to see what I have and relocate them to this area I've got a fantastic can today just behind me which I'll show you and then see what gaps are left and if there are gaps then perhaps a little trip to the Garden Center will be in order so the first thing that I am going to move is this a gorgeous gorgeous Nandina and it's just stunning but if you have a look at my blue spruce next to it you can see that it has not enough room and I think what I'll do as well which I'm quite excited about is I will take off all the lower leaves on the Nandina and I'm going to raise its canopy so kind of topiz it I think I think that would look a beautiful structure and these are the old leaves at the bottom so we're left with the beautiful new ones and I think that that will be fabulous over by the ponds the next thing that's on the list to be moved is this my beautiful is canata cloud prun topu but as you can see it's getting lost in amongst the hydranga and I think that needs to shine on its own I think definitely this ey canata could look beautiful over there more as a statement piece and then I have this lamium which is just loving its life the bees love it too it's spread enormously but it's squashing this Hoopa you can see I've got a lovely yellow ho right down here that's getting covered and then the other thing is I have this Japanese maple it's called Little Princess very pretty I might well move that over by the pond I have dug up some caraxes which were by the blue spruce which you saw earlier I'm going to put them all the way around the edge and see what that looks like right and now I'm going to take off all the lower older leaves and see what it looks like I don't even know if it's one stem multi- trunk whatever is going to look beautiful so should we do that na yes so I'm just going to go in and oh snails snils yuck Le the frogs cut them off as best I can [Music] I like it I think it looks more architectural It looks interesting there were snils everywhere all in the bottom so that's where they all go so one less place for them to congregate so let's jiggle these around and see what I like the look called Fest [Music] [Music] and I think this Nandina now offers some shade obviously depends on the time of the day but it offers some shade to the pond I like the little princess there I like the architectural structure of that [Music] I've had an epiphany last night looking at this I suddenly dawned on me this Japanese maple ASA little princess beautiful still love it but it's going to lose all its leaves in the Autumn and the winter all its leaves are going to fall into my little Wildlife Pond and I hadn't even considered that so this little princess is going to have to go so I thought I need something Evergreen to take its place so I went over to my garden center because I needed to get three Bunches of oxygenating plants just to add some more you know more the mara B and uh yeah I was looking around and I very nearly bought this beautiful blue Conifer absolutely stunning I had it in the trolley I was Wheeling it over to the paying point and it was very expensive it was 160 now that my truy caret I don't think cost £60 fell in love with it but I thought I can't I can't spend that much money on a plant so I thought right I'll put it back which I did and I thought I'm going to go to my local Nursery see if they've got anything and they had this for a fraction of the price and isn't it beautiful no it's not as tall it's not as standard but I think I'm going to make it into a little mini standard this believe it or not was £25 so nurseries are are good very good value if you can find a good Nursery you'll you'll uh they're worth their weighted gold and we should support them as much as our beat garden centers as well but sometimes you can find great bargains this is a super blue seing which is the same as the super blue over there they're very very Hardy and they can take huge minus temperatures they're Evergreen obviously now what I thought I could do is take off the bottom few because they're slightly spiky I mean the new growth is beautiful and soft but they're slightly spiky and of course I'm thinking of my frogs my Army which is going to join me and I don't want them roughing up their little bodies so I'm going to take off quite a lot of the lower stems and make it into a little ball a little mini mini standard so I was kind of in there looking at the shapes seeing what one is best candidate for a bit of tow puy and this one this one won the prize of joining me around the wildlife pond so I'm going to put it in and then do a little bit of pruning so I planted it I think it the color is just gorgeous absolutely beautiful and all I want to do is take off the very bottom branches so that it's not spiky at frog level [Music] that's what I've taken off my little army can move through their terrain easier and if we put them side by side my little one which was 25 lb next to the one I loved in the garden center which was 160 lb well I've saved myself quite a lot of money and I've also added something if you have a look down there that is now the new little bird bar which I've moved well I had that it was on a pedestal and I thought that might be nice with a few rocks and the frogs can sunbathe on the rocks and the NES can like you know have a little chill so I just wanted to show you a video that I put on Instagram of Richard he was making fun of me while well I was getting so excited because I discovered fruit on my fruit trees Plum Tree guess what guess what oh my God oh my God oh my God plums there's plums on there plums plums oh and and and have you ever seen this before Richard look we have guess what on the apple tree don't tell me don't tell me don't tell me don't tell me an apple and not just one apple Rich two three oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God an apple on an apple tree oh my God who would have thought that Richard was actually making fun of me because I get so excited because I saw some fruit on a fruit tree and uh he was mocking me but I do actually share quite a bit on Instagram so if you head over to Instagram and you want to follow me there that would be great and I do more regular updates than my weekly videos if you want to see more of Richard because he does have a fan base you know and when he's not in a video people miss him and ask about him so anyway these are the final adornments you're going to love these totally unnecessary for a wildlife Pond but me being me you know I go into these things with all guns blazing this is the little ladder it's bendable I'll put all these things on uh in my description box but look we need to help the little frogs and insects climbing out the pond so this is going to go here just to give them a little a little ladder well there we go a little Bridge so they can hop on the bridge and I have another Bridge you will laugh at this this is my other little Bridge which I thought could go over this side I'll um yeah we need to sort of anchor it well I'll go around that side in a minute and anchor that better this you are going to love this this is my little frog house a little Hideway where because being amphibians they're not in the water all the time they need to come out onto land and they like hiding away so I thought this would be perfect it's actually for an aquarium tank for geckos and things like that but I thought it' be perfect for my frogs and I'm going to Nestle that in there and they can hide away in there and finally a frog log so it's got holes in and you can't say I haven't tried [Music] m [Music] I have had so much fun putting together this Wildlife Pond and I'm so excited to see What creatures do come along the funny thing I must say is I've had quite a few comments telling me the noise that Frogs make in the summer evenings is often deafening so I will let you know if that happens if that happens all well and good I welcome them and I hope that is inspired some of you to maybe do the same and I know all these little extras aren't necessary at all but you know how I am you know what I'm like I cannot resist thank you so much for watching I'm Janette I'm the enthusiastic Gardener take care everyone and have fun in your Gardens