Gardening Tips

my pond has shubunkins in at the moment…….the little blighters eat everything in sight……..have decided that if i can find a good home for one, two and four………i will turn it over to a wildlife pond instead……maybe with a few minnowes, pond skaters, diving beetles etc ………would love some newts but they are protected

@panda12 wrote:

@tinks wrote:

my pond has shubunkins in at the moment…….the little blighters eat everything in sight……..have decided that if i can find a good home for one, two and four………i will turn it over to a wildlife pond instead……maybe with a few minnowes, pond skaters, diving beetles etc ………would love some newts but they are protected

I just bought my dad some shubunkins. He’s worried in case the carp eat them…

I can’t have a wildlife pond – not with 6 cats…

first year we had the pond we added some very large tadpoles………15 seconds later……all gone!………shubunkins had eaten every single one :oops: ……..i think they’ll be fine with your dad’s carp

Two houses ago I left a garden with a pond we had made ourselves it had 8 goldfish in it… I also made a bog garden in which a giant Gunnera plant thrived.. I loved that garden best one Ive had .. anyway few weeks ago I visited an old neighbour…I was so upset the people who bought our old house had filled in the pond and the Gunnera was no more :( .. so sad.

Panda… my cats were OK with the pond… but Penny (one of the cats) often came in with a wet paw after a fishing expedition… she never caught anything though :D

I’ve always had at least one buddleia wherever I’ve lived. Just one in the garden now although it’s huge, a white one and it’s laden in flowers right now…not many butterflies though, think they’ve gone into hiding with all the rain we’ve had!

love is like a butterfly,dont normally like programmes like that,but i had a crush on wendy craig top milf :oops: