A new wildlife garden pond for Buckinghamshire wildlife, Chalfont St Giles.

When Mr Bicknell from Chalfont St Giles informed us he wanted to recreate a childhood holiday memory for his children in his garden we were excited and curious. Ponds of all shapes and sizes have been given a little of a bad reputation in regard to safety in recent times so we wanted to know more.

When Clive was young his family would drive to the South of France to a small rural village that had a large pond in the centre with a jetty. He remembers pond dipping all types of wild treasures reminiscing the hours of joy he got from this natural wonder. The jetty used to enable you to see down into the clear water amongst the weeds all kinds of insects, amphibians and he even once saw a large snake travel across the waters surface.


Clive mentioned in a world where his children spend more and more time in front of computer games and TV he wants them to appreciate the wonders of nature and be touched like he once was.


We have started the concreting in the timber legs to the in-situ build timber jetty.  The structure is mounted on a reinforced concrete pad under the pond liver and then covered with a thin layer of sand and puncture proof membrane. We are starting to fill now and hoping he will get at least some pond skaters in the coming months, maybe frogspawn next spring or even a glimpse of a rare grass snake!