Before the pond there was the pool.
We started letting the pool go green in 2003 (when our youngest son was two).
a glimpse of the pool taken from our deck as it started to go green
It needed renovation and we didn't want to spend a lot of money on fixing it, given that climate change was looming and we hold strong concerns for the environment. (the full sun position required the filter to run 6-8 hours a day).
Stewart spent around two years lifting up the paving bricks, cleaning the bricks and landscaping the pool. We used some of them to build a new vege garden. During this time he also started putting plants in the pool by placing them on the pool steps.
It took around 6 months for the frogs to move in any by the first summer after the plants were added in 2004 we had hundreds of tadpoles in our pool.