I was leaning over the pond this evening, trying to reach the juicy alpine strawberries, when I spotted a big adult frog eyeballing me from the comfort of the pool.
I was swelled with pride, as this strange beast had accepted lodgings in my pond. Now my eye was in though, I spotted 3 tiny frogs skittering around on the pond weed and even 1 out on the edge of the pond.
What joy.
Not really sure where these ones have come from, the tadpoles I had been watching, don’t appear to have legs let. I wonder if these are an earlier batch that I missed or perhaps they all develop at different rates.
Anyway, I’m happy. It makes it for the disappointment I felt when I discovered all my replacement cauliflowers had been eaten by the slugs.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Karen // Jun 10, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Sorry about the cauliflowers.
Great about the frogs
Regards
Karen
2 Daphne Gould // Jun 11, 2008 at 12:29 am
Fabulous. I love frogs. I always wanted some in my garden but they never came when I had water. I would get lots of toads however, which wasn’t too bad.
3 linda // Jun 11, 2008 at 4:23 am
And proud you should be.
Frogs seem to have disappeared from yards around here. I think it’s because of all the lawn chemicals people use these days. It’s kind of sad.
4 Soilman // Jun 11, 2008 at 8:05 am
Bloody slugs had my first cauliflowers, too. I was spitting blood when I found them. Where’s a hungry hedgehog when you need one??
5 easygardener // Jun 11, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Quite unnerving the way a frog can hop out of nowhere. Lovely to see them though.
6 Cheryl // Jun 12, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Think of all the slugs those lovely little frogs will eat………
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