When our son was born, I directed that our garden would suffer a certain neglect. I prepared for the toddler years when – I knew – plants would probably be dried, tomatoes were picked prematurely, plucking flowers from plants.
I have not prepared how much luck I would experience how we devour our young fresh beans, reorganize tiny holes for new seedlings, chatter with worms or my pot lamp collection with dizzying joy.
I thought a child would make gardening difficult. And in a way, I admit. But I have learned that there is nothing so uniquely motivating when you see your garden through your child's eyes.
I discovered that if your herbal child asks you to breed a piece of sugar corn, bring it into the garden or install a huge natural pond that is surrounded by incredibly heavy stone and surrounded by ferns and tree trunks, is the only natural answer: “Okay where we start?”. This is how Henry Nicholls' pond was created.
Henry is 10 years old. As a nature lover of birth, he is largely responsible for the huge natural pond that fills a corner of his family garden.
“I wanted to see tons of animals and many bees and dragonflies come into the garden,” he says, leaning over the pond filled with Lilypad and looking for frogs.
“Now there are bees, hornets and wasps, many titanium blue dragonflies and only tons of insects.”
Henry's pond was built at the end of the winter of 2022, motivated by his dreams to have a garden with a waterfall.
“I really just drawn the design of the waterfall, but then mom and dad said:” If you want a waterfall, you need a pond, “he explains.
“There was a place there and I felt that a pond and a waterfall could fit into it. And that it would be magical and interesting, and he would increase the garden a lot.”
The pond is made of heavy stones, which its parents transported three hours south of Perth from a farm, as well as large boulders that were found on site.
On the one hand, a pebble beach was built to offer wild animals a safe entry point in the pond.
A stone water case (which looks like it was always there) runs the sloping side of the garden into the pond, covered with moss and limited by ferns.
“For some reason, I wanted to specially fern,” says Henry.
“I just wanted this really green paradise!”
Henry's pond with frogs, pygmy straps and insects is alive with a lot of natural coverage of waterlilies and an underwater meadow made of water grass. It is also his favorite place to sit peacefully and peacefully in nature.
“I like to look at the frogs.
They usually come out and start croaking around 5 p.m., ”explains Henry.
“I just wanted to see animals – I wanted to have this diverse area in the garden.”