Brambling Wrote:Great pics and lovely to see more of your wild garden! I see what you mean about the fish photos but only thing I can suggest is using an application recommended to me by CookieMonster. Will see if I can find the link if you are interested, they were doing 30 day free trial and I found it to be wonderful.

I would like a pond in our garden but thought it had to be filtered and have some sort of water movement such as a fountain, which meant electrics, so I've never done anything about it. Was most interested to hear about your rainwater fed unfiltered pond, may look into creating one next year. One question though, how does it stay clear?

RJ x

The link would be great, thanks.

The unfiltered pond is as clear, if not clearer at times, than the others. It has a variety of plants in it, including oxygenating ones, lots of water snails and is not overstocked with fish. Newts do not like running water and are happy with a bed of sludge in the bottom. Basically, we leave it alone as much as we can, just skimming off duck weed and cutting back plant roots to maintain clear water areas.