Comments on: life in a (former) one-frog town https://awaytogarden.com/life-in-a-former-one-frog-town/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:10:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: margaret https://awaytogarden.com/life-in-a-former-one-frog-town/comment-page-1/#comment-1399390 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:10:57 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=34407#comment-1399390 In reply to kelly purves.

Hi, Kelly. Because you are in Canada, you’ll need to identify a water-garden nursery (online catalog probably) and search the category usually called “floating plants” to see what is offered Lemna minor (duckweed) usually is, and is native through a wide range in North America. I don’t recommend wild-harvesting anything. I order a supply each spring. Sorry I don’t know which Canadian catalog to recommend, but do a web search and see what looks most promising.

]]> By: kelly purves https://awaytogarden.com/life-in-a-former-one-frog-town/comment-page-1/#comment-1399365 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:08:24 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=34407#comment-1399365 Hey Margaret! I have been following you for a few years and I love your pots of pondweed and water. I’m in Ontario – how do i set this up? where can i buy native pondweed? Do you recommend harvesting it from an area that is abundant? We have wicked droughts here in Prince Edward County….This seems to be ok for the grape growers, not so great for wildlife. thanks so much.
kelly

]]> By: Roxana Robinson https://awaytogarden.com/life-in-a-former-one-frog-town/comment-page-1/#comment-1049273 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:29:09 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=34407#comment-1049273 Thanks for your fascinating and informative posts about frogs and their habitat. I followed your lead and bought a 15-gallon tub and some azolla caroliniana and filled the tub with water. That was in late June, and for awhile things went well – the multiplied and was green and frogs showed up and mated, but then the azolla turned brown around the edges and one frog died. I found him floating in the water, without a mark. I wonder if I’m somehow creating a toxic environment? I still have two frogs, but sometimes they seem stressed, breathing heavily and floating listlessly. I don’t want to offer them a toxic soup. The tub I ordered came from a veterinary supply store and is a feed tub for horses, so it shouldn’t have any toxic ingredients. Twice I’ve seen tiny tadpoles in the “pond,” some just this morning. I’d love your thoughts on this – browning ferns and dying frogs – what am I doing wrong? I’m fairly near you, by the way, in the northwest corner of CT.

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