A garden pond is an excellent addition to your garden – if you are thinking of having your garden professionally landscaped by someone like this landscapers Gloucester based company //phoenixgardenersgloucester.co.uk/services/landscaping then a pond is definitely something worth thinking about adding to your garden.
It brings beauty, peace and also a brilliant habitat for all sorts of creatures to your garden. Whether it is a small pond with a water feature or a larger one, a pond has many benefits.
A garden pond attracts such a vast array of wildlife – frogs and toads, newts and insects like dragonflies and great diving beetles will quickly start to set up home there. Frogs and toads are very welcome garden residents, as they feed on slugs which helps to keep them off your plants too!
Dragonflies and damselflies will appear on sunny warm days, and they are a beautiful delight to watch as they fly around the water. They also eat pesky insects like mosquitoes, so they are another helpful form of pest control as well as being beautiful.
In addition to the creatures that live in the pond, a pond is also attractive to many garden birds. It provides a valuable source of drinking water for them and if you have a larger pond in a quieter area, you may even attract a kingfisher if you have small fish living in there.
Plants can add colour and also help to oxygenate the water – use native plants like water lilies and marsh marigolds. These also provide shelter for wildlife in and around the water.
