{"id":73,"date":"2015-03-29T21:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T21:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2022-12-14T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T15:48:20","slug":"ponds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/?page_id=73","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a pond in your garden, no matter what size, is one of the most beneficial things you can do to help wildlife. Even a small area of water can attract an amazing diversity of species; plants and invertebrates both within in and without the water, amphibians, birds, mammals.\u00a0 It&#8217;s this amazing variety of creatures and the aesthetic appeal of a well constructed water feature that make these particular projects so appreciated by customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good Grounds and Gardens<\/strong> specialises in creating wildlife ponds (and associated structures) and we have had a long experience of installing and maintaining them in school grounds, nature reserves and private gardens.<\/p>\n<p>We can also help in adding improvements to existing ponds.\u00a0 This might include incorporating additional planting with a greater variety of more wildlife supporting\u00a0 water plants or adding associated features such as adjacent rock piles and gravel beaches.<\/p>\n<p>We also undertake a number of pond &#8216;rescues&#8217; each year: removal of vegetation and\/or de-silting where the pond has become overwhelmed, replacing a pond liner with a high quality butyl liner where a pond is leaking, re shaping the pond structure to improve a variety of water levels and planting depths, removal of invasive and undesirable plant species.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We undertake large scale (Lake) vegetation management and removal using a sensitive, low impact methodology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In all our projects we use a very high quality butyl liner and a wide variety of native pond plants.<\/p>\n<p>An adjacent bog garden (aka soggy ground) also provides an additional habitat and plant diversity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-01-12-09.49.38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-01-12-09.49.38-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Pond restoration - before we started\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-01-12-09.49.38-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-01-12-09.49.38-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pond restoration &#8211; before we started<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-01-20-16.06.23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-01-20-16.06.23-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Pond restoration - the mended and restored pond just in time for the toads to return\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-01-20-16.06.23-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-01-20-16.06.23-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pond restoration &#8211; the mended and restored pond just in time for the toads to return<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Some other recent wildlife ponds we have created&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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Even a small area of water can attract an amazing diversity of species; plants and invertebrates both within in and without the water, amphibians, birds, mammals.\u00a0 It&#8217;s this amazing variety of creatures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/?page_id=73\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wildlife Ponds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/521"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodgroundsandgardens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}