The Wildlife Pond | The Wildlife Garden | The Nature Pond | ONE YEAR LATER

How to Make a Wildlife Pond for Pondlife and Nature in your Garden. A guide to creating a wildlife habitat to rewild your garden.
First choose the best location for your pond, ideally away from main roads or footpaths, not constantly in direct sunlight but also not to near mature trees which may drop leaves. Near a mature evergreen hedge is a good place, the hedge provides shelter for wildlife but also acts as a wildlife corridor and a place for birds to nest.
Try to make your pond as big as possible, you won’t regret it, but any size body of water will encourage wildlife and help biodiversity.
Try not to be too tidy in the garden, wildlife loves places to his like long grass and piles of twigs or sticks. I’ve made a log pile and a hibernaculum, Also, plenty of piles of organic waste.
Dig the hole as deep as possible, this stops the water freezing during winter. Various depths also caters for different elements of nature and encourages biodiversity. So have layers of varying depths, like ‘shelves’ around the margins of the pond. This will give you places to put pond plants.
www.pondkeeper.co.uk were very supportive with me in my pond construction and I would recommend them. (They also have a helpline with real people).
Here are some links to my other pond and wildlife videos:
How to make a wildlife pond: • How to make a Wildlife...
Installing the Giant Pond Liner: • Giant Wildlife Pond, I...
My Beautiful Wildlife Pond: • My Beautiful WILDLIFE ...
Gardens and gardening, how to make a pond, garden tour, walking tour, rewild your garden, how to encourage wildlife, biodiversity in the Garden, Gardening UK, A tour of my wildlife pond, the Jurassic jungle garden,
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[@muddyboots2531]

Wonderful area, I intend to refer to the videos of how you made the habitats for years to come. I call plant 1 Mare's Tail.

[@Vikface1978]

Or upright milfoil.

[@eminemzie90]

Hippuris Vulgaris🙂

[@sarahluchies1076]

I love seeing all these plants in their native environment. I live in Canada, and a lot of these plants are invasive where I grew up, such as the butterfly bush which has taken over the local river area, and foxgloves, which pop up anywhere the soil is disturbed. I'd love to see a similar setup in western Canada, for comparison.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks you. And hello Canada! Really appreciate you watching. Mark

[@alisonschooley5459]

Wow, that is amazing and in just a year. The wildlife thank you.

[@lisahowell3468]

The pond looks so beautiful! And love those snappy pants! 🙂 the flowers blooming in the pond are such a pretty accent!thanks for the update!

[@jackstone4291]

Just seen you want to make separate fish pools ! Just great. We can’t wait to see it all happen and how you do it. Big respect to you for such great ideas and carrying them out so well

[@award210]

Great video as usual. You must have the right balance for all the wildlife in your pond

[@quailhollow7955]

I love this pond. Thank you for the update!!

[@Frensis26]

Wow that looks wonderful! Well done :)

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thank you 😊 glad you liked it. Mark

[@judithhope8970]

A couple of the things you have are very thuggy and will need some control to keep the lovely balance you have. This is a very nice area and so wildlife friendly. Wonderful.

[@wernermcgann3792]

Great post, thank you

[@Vikface1978]

Great. Thank you 🙏

[@naturescarpenter]

Keep it coming marko. Well done pal

[@daphneking3954]

Just found your channel and I love it. So informative and interesting. You’ve given me lots of ideas, hubby will be despairing!,

[@eminemzie90]

Mares tail yes or cats tail Latin name is Hippuris Vulgaris, also a oxgenater. Yellow flag iris both native to the UK 😊 I have both myself and that green long one with little sections is Equisetum japonica or Barred Horsetail, pond looks great 👍

[@DJSupaflyguy]

👌👌👌👌

[@yesidtac7863]

Gran dia

[@jackstone4291]

Bog garden or wood pile next…?….. !