The Wildlife Pond Book: Create Your Own Pond Paradise for Wildlife
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Overview
This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right outside your back door.
Ponds are vital oases for nature. They are nursery grounds, feeding stops and bathing spots. They are genetic superhighways and vibrant ecosystems each brimming with life, interactions and potential. And they are for everyone.
In The Wildlife Pond Book, Jules Howard offers a fresh perspective on ponds and encourages gardeners to reach for a garden spade and do something positive to benefit our shared neighbourhood nature.
As well as offering practical tips and advice on designing, planting up and maintaining your pond, Jules encourages readers to explore the wildlife that colonises it with a torch, a microscope or a good old-fashioned pond-dipping net.
With a foreword by award-winning wildlife-gardening author, Kate Bradbury, this helpful new guide includes a section outlining the hundreds of organisms that may turn up in your pond and is packed with creative ideas that have been tried and tested by author Jules Howard, an avid pond-builder, prolific pond-dipper and passionate voice for freshwater conservation for more than fifteen years.
So, no matter how big your outdoor space is, The Wildlife Pond Book is the guide you need to create your very own haven for nature.
This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right outside your back door.
Ponds are the garden feature that can make the most significant difference to wildlife, and this brand new book is fully endorsed and supported by The Wildlife Trusts as part of their campaign to encourage gardeners to pick up a spade and put in a pond
Offers practical advice on creating and managing wildlife-friendly ponds to suit all budgets and that work in all outdoor spaces, regardless of size
Helps you design your pond in a way that ensures it’s safe and accessible to all the nature in your neighbourhood by providing protected areas for pond wildlife, as well as feeding spots, nesting sites and warming stations for basking reptiles
Explains how to safely enjoy and explore the wildlife that colonises your pond with a torch, a microscope or a good old-fashioned pond-dipping net
Outlines year-round management jobs and offers tips on controlling problem plants and algae and how to deal with your pond in drought years
Written by Jules Howard, an avid pond-builder, prolific pond-dipper and passionate voice for freshwater conservation for more than fifteen years, and with a foreword by by award-winning wildlife gardening author and journalist, Kate Bradbury
Foreword by Kate Bradbury
Introduction – the wonder of ponds
What makes ponds so special?
Prehistoric ponds
Ponds and civilisation
The birth of the ornamental pond
The state of Britain’s ponds
Hidden values of ponds
The Idea Stage
Preparing your pond
Managing your pond
Planting up your pond
Pond animals to look out for
Exploring your pond
Glossary
Useful organisations
Taking inspiration from nature
Further reading
Image credits
Index
Acknowledgements
If you are considering installing a pond this season, this is an invaluable book to hand. - English Garden
This is a handy, accessible softback, filled with clear images that illustrate practical concepts. - English Garden
- Title: The Wildlife Pond Book: Create Your Own Pond Paradise for Wildlife
- Author: J. W. Howard
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Wildlife
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472958310, 9781472958327, 1472958322, 1472958314
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472958310
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:12:56Z
Jules Howard is a UK-based wildlife expert, author, science-writer and presenter. He writes about zoology and wildlife conservation and is a regular contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine, BBC Science Focus magazine and the Guardian. Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world, partly by tapping into the wonder of ponds.