Green - ponds (unfortunately!)

[emeraldsword]

Ladies, I am the proud owner of a pond. To call it a pond is giving it a grandeur that it doesn't really deserve as it's basically a hole in the ground lined with tarpaulin, but it was there when I bought the house, it is well established and it has frogs and I am very happy with it

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[woolymonkey]

This might help...
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=622

[emeraldsword]

Oooh, thank you, that's really interesting!

[biascut]

My mum used to get daphnia to clear the water in our pond, but googling daphnia suggests they are there to be fish food - I'm not sure what happens if you have daphnia to clear the algae but nothing higher in the food chain. Maybe go to a decent garden centre and ask?

[fwuffydragon]

You want barley straw logs - you can get them from the garden centre or from ebay. They are a miracle thing! Our pond went from bright green to clear in a week once we put one in!

You can also buy pond snails by post(!) or from your local garden centre.