Raised water garden

[Plocket]

We have a small water garden and because of this a friend gave my daughter some tadpoles. The tadpoles have duly turned into tiny frogs and we've watched a few of them leap off the edge of the container to the path below - some 40cm. I've put a length of drain-pipe up to the water garden from behind some plants, and there are also potted plants around the water garden, neither of which the frogs chose to use.

My question is, if the frogs decide to return to our water garden to spawn, are they likely to make the effort to get to the water, or will they give up and spawn elsewhere?

Thank you.

[skylight]

Hi Plocket, The little froglets will probably please themselves where they go. It will probably be somewhere cool and damp. Of course they wont spawn until they are adult by which time they might have found a burn(stream). You never know one or two might decide to stay in your water garden. There's no way of knowing, you will just have to let nature take its course. skylight

[RATTER15]

They will get in when they want, without a doubt

[Plocket]

Thanks for your replies. I hope the frogs want to come back; it's a very nice little water garden!!

[irishlyn]

Our pond was raised too but every year the frogs came back to spawn...in March you could hear them for a week they were so loud..they always find a way in