The chorus frogs haven’t shown up in the Frog Mitigation Area in my side yard. Good!
It gives me time to pretty up the area for my jade-green guests, and to prepare the ponds and creek to house their eggs and tadpoles. I discovered the curly rush sprout, pictured above, while cleaning pear leaves out of the creek bed. The pear leaves will clog up the stream bed. I want open water in the creek for tadpole habitat.
The frogs prefer to mate while half-submerged. I have several flower pots full of mud and plants in the upper pond, that are just a little higher than the water line. If I add just a few inches of water to the pond, the pots will be just underwater, and perfect for frog nookie.
The frogs will embrace in the water pooled in the middle of those pots and fertilize the eggs, then the female will swim deeper and fasten the egg sac to an underwater plant stem.
Everything has to be just perfect for my warty angels. The larger crystal (pictured below, center) is glowing lavender, activating the energy vortex.
Hopefully in three weeks I’ll be sitting here in the dark with a flashlight and a camera, watching frogs have sex, but I’m ok, I swear.
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