Frogs galore (1 Viewer)

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helenol

Well-known member

• Aug 8, 2003

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Does anyone else having frogs living in their plant pots on the patio? Almost every pot I have has a frog in it. They are all over the place. We don't have a pond, but 2 doors away they have a small one.

It doesn't matter what part of the garden it is, there is a frog - even in the veg patch underneath the lettuce! I have now put down a couple of cheap containers underneath the bushes etc for them, filled with a little water for them. One thing, there aren't many slugs in my garden especially on the lettuce.:t:

 

pduxon

Quacked up Member

• Aug 8, 2003

• #2

I don't know that I have lots of frogs but they seem to like the marigolds under the Kitchen window, there's usually one or two. I'm not sure where the nearest pond is!!

One evening, a year or so back, I put the car in the garage opened the front door and then went to unload the boot. Upon return there was a "leaf" on the mat but when I bent down to pick it up it hopped. Almost had a heartattack!!

 

birdman

Орнитол&

• Aug 8, 2003

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Yes... me too helen.

We don't have a watery garden at all, although we do have pleant of cool shady vegetation.

Our garden is a bout half a mile across a rough field from a pond - put I'm not aware of any neighbours having water in their gardens.

Partnyorsha, who reckons to know about these things, says they are actually small toads, but we have had a few hopping across the lawn into the undergrowth, and I'm pretty sure I saw one in the herb garden last night as I was inspecting an unusual caterpillar.

And now you mention it... we don't seem to have any slugs!

 

James

I'm losing it!

• Aug 8, 2003

• #4

I think I have finally made the connection between building a pond and the Hosta's surviving! They used to be eaten to death. So it's the frogs is it? Good for them.

James

 

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Focalpoint

Guest

• Aug 8, 2003

• #5

Yes we have them too in Cheshire, No pond but plenty of frogs and its driving the dog mad.

 

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Elizabeth Bigg

Addicted member

• Aug 9, 2003

• #6

I recently had one living for a while in a partly rain-filled (but otherwise empty) plant trough. If you'd like to give your frogs a treat, you could give them some mealworms for supper. Last year I fed some of our pond frogs with these, and it was most amusing watching them eye up these tasty morsels, before grabbing them.

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Aug 9, 2003

• #7

Elizabeth! Hello again.

Re giving the frogs mealworms, I have enough to contend with with the hedgehog. We had an enormous hedgehog visiting this last few weeks, then the other night we discovered a really small one had taken its place. Needless to say the young hedgehog is having a ball at the moment with its mealworms!

 

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Elizabeth Bigg

Addicted member

• Aug 9, 2003

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Lucky you, Helen (and sounds like lucky hedgehogs too)! Our hedgehog stopped coming several weeks ago - I hope it wasn't a traffic victim, but that's probably the most likely answer. It used to come regularly several times each night.