The warm weather has really kicked the garden into life, with stuff coming up all over. The new hedging plants have all come into bud so I've had 100% survival over the winter and with an entire growing season now they've got their roots down I'm hoping for some serious growth this year. The frog-spawn has hatched into tadpoles, though we do have an iminent hosepipe ban in prospect so we may be topping up the pond with buckets as filling domestic ponds is banned - though the water board do say they make an exception for filling fish ponds. I've emailed them, copied to our local wildlife trust, to see if that exemption extends to wildlife ponds in domestic gardens...and if not why not? With garden ponds being so vital for wildlife these days I would have thought there was a strong case for it.
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