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This is really rather delightful.
I have a tiny garden - TINY - and all concreted over, so I've never held out much hope of being able to enjoy sheltering beasties like hedgepigs, and since I have no pond or permanent water source in the garden I assumed the same would be true for everything else, too.
BUUUT I do have a lot of jumbled tat - a messy pile of unused plant pots wedged between a wall and a mini greenhouse, weeds growing up between my tightly crammed herb planters where soil has built up in the crevasses, and loads of bricks, half-bricks and tiles stacked about to lift some pots higher than others, and apparently some local froggies have decided this makes my garden worth exploring!
Now, there is a better habitat right up against my garden - the neighbours have no pond, but they do have lots of well-established hedges and shrubs, and there's no fence dividing our gardens. So this got me thinking; could I build effective, worthwhile overwintering shelters for the frogs in my space? Anyone know what sort of shelter frogs prefer? Any easy DIY shelters that can be made with half-bricks and scrap wood?
I have a tiny garden - TINY - and all concreted over, so I've never held out much hope of being able to enjoy sheltering beasties like hedgepigs, and since I have no pond or permanent water source in the garden I assumed the same would be true for everything else, too.
BUUUT I do have a lot of jumbled tat - a messy pile of unused plant pots wedged between a wall and a mini greenhouse, weeds growing up between my tightly crammed herb planters where soil has built up in the crevasses, and loads of bricks, half-bricks and tiles stacked about to lift some pots higher than others, and apparently some local froggies have decided this makes my garden worth exploring!
Now, there is a better habitat right up against my garden - the neighbours have no pond, but they do have lots of well-established hedges and shrubs, and there's no fence dividing our gardens. So this got me thinking; could I build effective, worthwhile overwintering shelters for the frogs in my space? Anyone know what sort of shelter frogs prefer? Any easy DIY shelters that can be made with half-bricks and scrap wood?