A Little Bit on Ecology

Though it's artificial, a water garden can be a way to study local interactions of aquatic life and terrestrial life.  Our water garden, now over ten years old (upper part) and ten years old (lily pond) is rain-fed (with collected rainwater) and has successful reproducing populations of native insects, amphibians, and questionably reproducing populations of reptiles (does the red-lined ribbon snake reproduce here?  We don't know.  I'm pretty sure the turtle that shows up occasionally...