{"id":2671,"date":"2019-03-27T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2019-03-27T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:09:18","slug":"planning-a-new-garden-pond-then-get-your-heron-in-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/planning-a-new-garden-pond-then-get-your-heron-in-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning a new garden pond then get your Heron in early"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf you are planning to build a new garden pond with some fish then your first move should be to establish a statue of a heron ideally even before you start digging the pond. A Heron can clean out your pond of fish within a matter of hours but they are very territorial and will not normally intrude on other herons patch so by adding a statue of a heron before you add the fish serves as a mark that your pond is taken already by an existing heron.
\nIf you have already suffered an attack by a heron on your fish it’s often too late to add a heron statue to discourage\u00a0further attacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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