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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven and Arthur Parkinson.

And today we're going to talk about something that Arthur is really knowledgeable and enthusiastic about,

and he knows much, much more about it than I do.

So I'm going to be led down the garden ponds and water garden path by Arthur.

We've started with one here.

We've just actually got an old metal water trough, quite a big one,

that was on the farm up in a field when we arrived.

And we dug that a huge chamber and it's a recirculating water chamber. So it just has a little tiny pump that just

circulates the water within the water feature and then it overspills into the tank below

and then it just recycles and recycles.

I absolutely love it and do you know why? I love it for two or three main reasons.

The first is the sound. I really love the sound of water in the garden which we've never had

before we had that put in. And the second thing is the beauty of the plants in it, which will

come on to. But the third and perhaps most important is I take a chair and I sit beside it or a little

bit away and I watch the bees, butterflies, hoverflies and birds both washing and drinking

on the sides of it because it's got a flat side to the water feature.

So I am now due to Arthur much, much more enthusiastic than I ever was.

So over to you, Arthur.

Let's get everyone making a pond or having a water feature.

Yeah, I mean, they were in fashion, weren't they, when it was ground force?

I remember Charlie Dimmock was the queen of ponds.

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