 |  | | | Ponds | 18 July 2006 | | |
You think that a pond or a water feature will look lovely in the garden. Especially in weather like this it'll twinkle in the sunlight and the sound of running water will be clear and cooling.
Well, it will for the first year - and then it'll go green and manky and you may wish you'd never bothered in the first place. So how do you go about keeping the water in a pond crystal clear as well as wildlife friendly?
At The Dower House at Morville Hall in Shropshire, the gardener and writer Katherine Swift showed Maggie Ayre how to put an old broomstick to good use.
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