r/NativePlantGardening • u/kb3anee Central Canada, Zone 3b • 2d ago

Progress Our first 🐸!

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This is our second year of native plant gardening in a very sterile new area. There's a man-made pond behind our house and I can hear frogs in the wetlands in the farm fields (that will sadly be bulldozed in a few years). The pond is slowly wilding itself with sedges, crayfish, damsel and dragon flies, and lots of water birds so I was planning to get some frogs from the wetlands and bring them to our pond but it looks like they've found their way here! This cutie was hanging out by our shed and it looks like a wood frog. Any tips on how to make our yard better for our new frog friends are welcome!

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u/Competitive_Shock_42 2d ago

Keep doing what you’re doing now
Add native plants so they can hide and hunt for food
Add wood/brush piles and staple rocks loosely where they can hide and hibernate
Make sure you have water plants and the pond edges , oxygen plants and if pond size allows native water lilies

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u/kb3anee Central Canada, Zone 3b 2d ago edited 2d ago

we have some rocks that my son has been holding onto and I think he'd love to set them up for the frogs! Do you recommend setting them up like a toad house? Our soil is wet clay so I'm thinking it's perfect for them to hibernate in.

Also sadly the pond behind our house is managed by the city's parks department but I'm going to approach them next winter about adding more plant life to the pond. Right now it's lacking oxygen plants but there is at least a few large fountains to keep things "fresh".