Benefits to having a pond

Building a pond in your garden creates variety. Not only are you getting a different experience by welcome new plants and wildlife into your garden, but you are also going to learn new things about the environment, and experience it all up close and personal. It adds beauty to your garden and will be an attraction to your friends and neighbourhood.
It can be used as a key selling point when trying to sell your house, and will often dramatically increase the value of your property. Most property evaluators look at external features that you have added to your garden and will often increase the value if you having something worth their while.
The visual delight of a shallow sparkling pool or a spouting fountain creates a real focul point and brings a garden to life, while the creation of a new natural habitat helps attract new wildlife to the garden.
One thing that few people in this world have is a sanctuary - a safe place to hide from the rest of the world. By building a pond in your garden, you are building your own relaxing place. Listening to the running water can be soothing and relaxing, and learning about nature through the plants and animals you include can be an invigorating experience.
If you have frogs and newts in your area and they are in most places in the UK then before long you should find that some find their way into your pond, at which point you can enjoy the annual process of frogspawn, tadpoles, and then seeing the little frogs that they develop into!
If you have fish, then you can also keep for instance goldfish in a fishpond. Depending on how much food there is in the pond naturally (it takes time to build up) then you can leave them pretty much unfed during Summer and Autumn, then feed them through the Winter and the start of the Spring too.
Goldfish are useful for eating the small insect larva and so on that build up in the pond from gnats lying their eggs and the like; if you keep goldfish then you should ensure the water is of good quality and clean - a fountain can help with aeration here, but most of all you will find that pond weed or oxygenating plants of some kind are essential to stop the water going stagnant or green.

Consider the amount of time, space, and effort you’re willing to dedicate to this project, and it will help you determine whether a pond is right for you.

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