Frog spawn and amaryllis

Two lots of frogspawn in the pond, looking like some dark sago pudding. Last summer never saw more than one frog at a time, and haven't seen a sign of one this year, but obviously there must have been at least two in my pond at the same time at some point recently!

The duck weed used not to survive the winter, but the last few winters it has. Not surprisingly this winter it again survived. I don't try to get rid of it as it protects the frogs in the spring from the neighbourhood cats.

The plant behind, though, died down last winter (its first). It was full of yellow flowers last year. Hopefully some insects took advantage of it, but I didn't see any do so.

Today I had a day off and spent a couple of hours in the garden repotting some conservatory plants, including my amaryllis. With pulling of the bulbs on the outside of the main bulb, I went from 7 amaryllis to 13. In 2 cases there was a lot of disturbance to the roots so likely no flowers from either the parent bulb or the new one this year as they don't like root disturbance. During the time I was out in the garden I didn't see any bees or other insects despite it being mild and dry.