Water Gardening: Your Pond Pictures, Please!!!!, 0 by ButterflyGardnr

ButterflyGardnr wrote:
I don't have any RECENT pictures, so in this one you can actually still see the pond. This is right after it was installed in 1998. I took care of the visual problem by putting in a mint and some Bacopa monnieri (this is a larval food of the White Peacock butterfly for you b'fly lovers) in it. They have pretty much taken over. I can't tell you how many trash cans full of this stuff I have pulled out of the pond, speaking of which, it's time to do the semi-annual "pond trashing" at the Rhead household... I found someone who wants the Bacopa--the butterfly guy at the local farmer's market. I get him to trade me caterpillars and/or chrysalides in exchange for big pots of it :>

So, here's the "barren" pond: