Along with birds and bees, frogs are also great additions to any garden.
One Reddit user recently posted a photo of a “lush and inviting” frog pond that's now in its second year of thriving and surrounded by native grasses and plants.
The original poster's frog pond was planted with plants like hazel alder, spicebush, buttonbush, pawpaw, swamp milkweed, and lizard's tail. Surrounding the pond are winged sumac, spotted bee balm, pennywort, and water lilies. All of these plants are native to central Georgia, where the Reddit user lives.
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In the comments section, the poster explained how they had to move a children's trampoline and dig a stepped hole in its place. There were some rocks around the pond, and they had to remove weeds every month with a garden rake.
In the comments section, the Reddit user also mentioned how the pond has attracted many frogs, writing, “Great to see more tree frogs around the garden. Love watching them.”
Posts like this one are trending on the r/NativePlantGardening subreddit, which covers topics like native habitat restoration, xeriscaping, and building gardens for stormwater and pollinators.
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These posts are great examples of how renaturalizing your yard can save you money, reduce your family's exposure to chemicals, cut down on water usage, and attract pollinators. To create a frog pond, you'll need to provide a variety of plants, rocks, logs, plenty of moisture, and varying depths.
Pond habitats are especially important because human-caused pollution is threatening amphibians around the world, pushing some 2,900 species, including frogs, to the brink of extinction and disrupting food chains and ecosystems.
“Massive pollinator attractor,” one Reddit user commented.
“So lovely,” another user wrote.
Beyond words of affirmation and praise, the post has inspired others to create their own ponds to attract native and beneficial wildlife to their yards.
“This is exactly what I was looking for, except I need a dike for the box turtles,” one Reddit user commented. “I am a rehabilitator and have several turtles that use the pond and can't be released back into the wild.”
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