European Gardening: Pond projects, 0 by sueone

sueone wrote:
Our pond has been very overgrown this summer, had a job to see the waters surface at all, let alone any life in there.So I did my pond out a couple of weeks ago Pat too, or rather gave instructions to my daughter as I stood and supervised. Talk about hysterical...she doesn't do dirt!!...or smelly things...and detests frogs...

As she was pulling out this carex that had grown huge, this in turn pulled out an iris that had grown into it also..and along with this came the water lily too...she was pulling with all her might trying to drag out this one never ending mass of plants from the pond...and of course with it came hundreds of frogs....she was too scared to drop the lot back in the pond in case it splashed her..and was trying to dodge this frenzy of leaping frogs... I couldn't move for laughing...

But now it's sorted looks much bettre, and the fish are happily (or I'm assuming they're happy) swimming around like mad.
All manner of creatures crawled out from the plants, and hopefully back into the pond again.

This is a picture of before.