Letters to Wendy
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Friends with benefits
THE letter (AG, 5 September) regarding ‘Tommy the toad’ struck a chord with me. I too have an amphibious visitor to my garden. I’ve seen much wildlife returning to our gardens during the pandemic – countless varieties of bumblebee, honey bees and flying insects, plus dung beetles in the compost bin, and recently I found Fred the frog in our pool. I made the pool from an old plastic tub and planted it with a miniature lily, irises and some watercress, and it would appear Fred approves!
Fred is certainly helping control the slugs, and he seems to vary his abode between the pool edges and a broken clay flowerpot on its side, which provides a little cave for him.
I have only recently worked on book, published when I was only 17 years old (and I was certainly not thinking of gardening at that point in my life).
