Garden Exploits
![The bug hotel](https://alternativeperspectives.photography/wp-content/uploads/Bug-Hotel.jpg)
Will it ever stop raining
At the end of my last garden blog I left with the pond being completed but the remaining area between the pond and our boundary
![Water Lilies and pond life now returned to pond](https://alternativeperspectives.photography/wp-content/uploads/7035-bottom-of-liner-filled.jpg)
Pond, Patio & Planting
Liner spread over pond In our last blog we covered the hard landscaping of the pond. This blog will cover the completion of the pond
![dug out pond with layers inside and drainage ditch on right](https://alternativeperspectives.photography/wp-content/uploads/7000-Layers-in-pond.jpg)
The hard landscaping
Granite setts marking out the new pond area I left you at the end of our last blog with a definite plan, and the first
![Drainage ditch now complete with pea gravel over the drainage pipe](https://alternativeperspectives.photography/wp-content/uploads/Completed-Drainage-Ditch.jpg)
Great Plans for the pond
Drainage ditch complete Well, at the end of the last blog we left you with this: a drainage ditch, a muddy pond and bits of
![small 3 month old fox red labrador pulling the pond liner from the pond](https://alternativeperspectives.photography/wp-content/uploads/Willow-Dragging-Pond-Liner-close-up-1024x729.jpg)
Willow. Pond.
The old pond Now it wasn’t perfect, in life things rarely are. It did provide a habitat for frogs and toads, and the plants provided
![Table and chair on left, slabbed patio and path, arch and planters](https://alternativeperspectives.photography/wp-content/uploads/Patio-to-garden-gate.jpg)
Spring Work, Summer Relax
You may remember our exploits in the garden last year. I covered that in the post It’ll only take 5 minutes. Well, we never learn.
![All the stones removed from the path at the house](https://alternativeperspectives.photography/wp-content/uploads/Back-path-excavations.jpg)
It’ll Only take 5 Minutes
The path is badly overgrown All the stones removed from the path at the house Path now re-created and complete It’ll only take 5 minutes.