Updates

water · plants · wildlife

No, it's a heron!

water · plants · wildlife

An update about our avian visitors

water · plants · wildlife

Healthy detritus oligochaete in the pond to be precise

water · plants · wildlife

I maybe went a bit OTT with the number of plants

water · plants · wildlife · invertebrates

Time to buy buy buy (more plants) and shall I CCTV the wildlife?

water · plants · wildlife

Post-heatwave the algae has bloomed properly, but the water is reading its best yet. The pond looks its worst and reads its best.

water · plants · wildlife

A diverse cast of different ecological players appear, some good, some bad.

water · plants · wildlife

It's been bloody hot, but the algae is telling an encouraging story.

plants · water · wildlife

A spontaneous trip to the aquarium shop to stock up on a few essentials

water · plants

Four days after planting and the phosphate has halved, from 10 ppm down to 5.

plants · build

Twelve plants went in today, all from Wetland Plants: five oxygenators, two floating, two deep-water and three marginals.

plants · build

If I can do it in a 42L bucket, why not a 3600L chlorine-bleached communal fountain?

plants · wildlife

The bucket comes alive: forget-me-not flowers, a lily explosion, hitchhiking snails and a damselfly larva.

plants · build

Before the fountain, there was a bucket. A mini aquatic ecosystem on a 3rd floor London balcony.