Pond Week 2022 | Herefordshire Wildlife Trust

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Welcome to the first ever Pond Week!

We'll be sharing information on all our favourite pond wildlife, how to pond dip, how to build your own pond and where to go visit a pond. We'd love to hear about your favourite ponds too!

We'll be on Facebook: @Herefordshirewt on Twitter: @HerefordshireWT on Instagram: @HerefordshireWildlifeTrust and on email! enquiries@herefordshirewt.co.uk

Illustration of a toad — Common toad (c) Mike Hughes

Ponds for All

Download this fabulous free booklet from Wild About Gardens to get started on learning all about the watery world of ponds and pondlife above and below the surface.

Click here to view & download

Sturts East pond in Waterloo field

Sturts East pond in Waterloo field

Ice Age Ponds

In Herefordshire we have some ponds that are just a bit special - they were created during the last Ice Age... and still exist today!

Find out more about our project to conserve Herefordshire's Ice Age Ponds

Create a Pond - big or small!

Below are guides to creating ponds at home. If you are planning to create a larger pond or have a large pond that you plan to restore and would like some advice, as an individual or as a community group, please get in touch with Sarah King at s.king@herefordshirewt.co.uk .

Build a pond

How to build a pond

A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.

Build a pond

How to create a mini pond

Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.

How to make a bog garden

How to make a bog garden

Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.

Pond Life

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Pond Plants

For Day One of Pond Week we're sharing some of our favourite pond plants!

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Pond Dippping

For Day Two of #PondWeek we're pond dipping!
Here's how to do it...

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Pond Wildlife

For Day Three of #PondWeek we're taking a look at wildlife that lives in and around ponds.

Watery Walks

View across a pond thick with vegetation

Birches Farm Ice Age Pond Trail

A chance to walk around an ice age landscape and discover some rare Ice Age ponds and the wildlife that lives in them.

Sturts East pond in Waterloo field

The Sturts Ice Age Ponds Trail

A trail through the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust’s Sturts North and South Reserves. The reserves have many examples of Ice Age ponds.

Pond in a sloping field with a sign in front

Bromyard, Bringsty & Brockhampton Pond Trail

A walk taking in many ponds restored as part of the Pooling Together project.

Your Ponds

Herefordshire's pond lovers share their favourite ponds...

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"Exceptional Waterlogged Heritage"

To celebrate #PondWeek, we've invited pond lovers from across the county to share their passion with us. here's the wonderful…

Duck with ducklings in a garden

Ducks take up residence

Geraldine and Bryan recently got in touch with a question about their newly resident ducks...

View from above of a small garden pond edged with stone and foliage

Barbara's Pond

Barbara's pond has attracted lots of new froggy friends!

Blogs

Pond in winter surrounded with long grass and bushes

What makes a pond a pond?

We all have a picture in our minds of what a pond is don’t we? For me it is the pond in the village I grew up in, a very traditional…

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Invasive Non-Native Plant Species in Ponds

Meg investigates the problem of invasive species in ponds, what to look out for and how we can help.