Eden Nature Garden fundraise to save the Clapham frogs
By Isabel Millett
19th Jun 2021 | Local News
The Eden Nature Garden in Clapham has launched a fundraising campaign to urgently repair its wildlife pond, currently being drained of water by the ancient Oak tree nearby.
Clapham has few secrets so well kept as the Eden Nature Garden. Adjacent to St Paul's Churchyard, Eden Nature Garden is a haven of tranquillity, having been transformed in 2000 from disused church land running alongside Matrimony Place.
Hidden within plain sight less than a stone's throw north of Clapham Old Town, the garden overflows with whimsically named wildflowers: Oriental Poppies, Corncockles, Brazen Hussy, Cow Parsley, Forget-me-nots, Opium Poppies and Honesty.
Two beehives installed in 2008 produce Eden Honey, sold in the garden on Friday mornings.
Crucially, for Eden at St. Paul's to be certified as a wildlife garden it had to have water, fulfilled by the pond at the lower end of the garden since 2009.
Dozens of frogs hopped to the pond to populate it with frogspawn this spring.
The pond is now teeming with tadpoles but being drained of water by an Oak tree nearby which in spring and summer, often leaves the pond completely dry.
As well as the developing tadpoles there are numerous aquatic insects which rely on the pond. Birds drink from the damp edges, as do the honey bees which live in the nearby beehives.
To repair the pond's liner and surround it with accessible decking for visitors to the Eden Nature Garden, St Paul's Community has raised over 50 per cent of the £5,500 it needs.
Contributions big or small are greatly appreciated and can be made here.
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