Rescuing An Overcrowded & Overgrown Hidden Pond 💦 🐸

Good morning everyone. Well I was doing one of my little jobs which ended up into a bigger job but I've had so much fun and I have removed four huge loads of carexes from around the pond which I hadn't intended to do quite so much and be quite so drastic but you know what he looks beautiful so I'm going to show you the process and then I'll show you the big reveal it's very sad losing all these carexes but like I explained last week I've tried transplanting them I've tried giving them to people and they all die and they grow prolifically so the ones that I have left will spread so come with me and I will show you first of all what the garden looked like before we started or the pond area where you couldn't even see the pond so today I'm going to tackle the pond area. The pond area is so overgrown with carexes and they do so well for me and I have so many and just looking at it it's just some have to go so that's my job today and I suggest that you put some music on and you play some lovely music maybe an album for one hour don't do what my friend Elizabeth said she did she she did that and she's lost her apple air bud has just fallen out somewhere into the garden so watch out for that let's do the clearing away of the pond so I don't actually have an exact plan but I do know that I want to trim all these off so that's look at the size of these they're huge I have such a shame but these little ones are going to regrow they'll be just as good all over again I have a new bag of soil to just freshen it up I do need to clean all that but as you can see the sun's coming over rather rapidly so I think I'll tidy this area up get these in I'm not going to plant it quite so thickly and then I can switch to that side I hadn't intended to be quite this drastic but however I like it and it will grow again now we need to switch to that side but one thing that I've learned from good old Richard is tidy up after yourself as you go along because we get exhausted by the end and then we half-heartedly do it so I'm going to do this and I'll put it all on time-lapse I think because it's just more of the same so before we show you the reveal I'll show you what it looked like just over an hour ago and it was so overgrown I hadn't intended on taking out quite so many grasses but kind of as I poured they all came and I managed to save little pups which I've replanted and I think it looks pretty I can see the pond again and the fountain's now working that's a solar fountain well the sun couldn't even get anywhere near you can see my snail you can see my little robin will grow again but I'll keep it in check just for any of you who might be newer to the channel you might not know that this section all that half there is actually an hibernaculum under all that because I dug down was it a year ago 18 months ago I dug down it's about two foot deep and it has a whole load of tunnels it's for hibernating animals or frogs or whatever can fit down there and you can see I have three entrances this is one of them and they are actually don't know if you can see that they're down pipes and they go all the way or soil pipes actually they go all the way downwards and there's another one there so that is an entrance and then round here we have a third entrance which you can see a lot easier here so they go all the way down about two foot down and then there are sort of tunnels and little hideaways and little safe places with secure little tiny roofs and things it's hard to imagine that if you are interested there is a which I will link to the end of this one I have no idea if anything ever goes down there I will never know but it's a little safe haven for any little wildlife that's a little frog hotel back there and we have a little frog log as well things can hide in a little entrance that side so that's my hibernaculum I'm very happy very happy with how it's turned out I'll give you a quick view of this side as well but it looks fresher cleaner and brighter and I'm sure it will all grow again but we can just do the same thing again I do love the carexes I had four great big bags full of carexes which is a shame I know but we've got to keep things in check and I had a very enjoyable morning doing this so thank you so much for watching I'm Jeanette I'm the enthusiastic gardener I hope it's giving you a little bit of inspiration to just maybe clear an overcrowded area that that you probably have as well because everything corrodes thank you for watching take care and I will see you soon bye