Water Gardening: Shiver My Fins!, 1 by Happenstance

Happenstance wrote:
RockCity -

Seems like the fires are now under control.....the smoke in and around the Bay Area has been pretty bad this past week, low visibility and lots of debris in the air. The weather pattern has returned to normal and the air seems to be clearing out. The CDF has a great website http://www.fire.ca.gov/cdf/incidents/ . The first fire incident listed "The Rumsey Fire" is the one that was affecting a good portion of Northern California this week. http://www.fire.ca.gov/cdf/incidents/Rumsey Fire_166/inciden... The stats listed for each incident are truly amazing. For this particular fire almost 40,000 acres burned at a cost of almost $8million involving over 1,000 firefighters. The rainy season can't start soon enough around here, we need a really good drenching to knock the fire danger down.

ladyanne - several suggestions for foolproof plants to cover the edges of ponds. These will not only grow along the edges, but will fill all the nooks and crannies and crawl on over the edge and trail in the water.

Mimulus guttatus (Common Monkey Flower) http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/26373/
Lysimachia nummularia (Creeping Jenny, Moneywort) http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/26278/
Phalaris arundinacea Ribbon Grass, Reed Canary Grass, Gardener's Garters http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/25944/

And my favorite is Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea' - Golden Creeping Jenny, Gold Moneywort. These were plugs I put in the end of July around the new portion of the pond. It has been trimmed several times since then and in our climate it is evergreen and grows year round.

Pond puppies at play on this overcast drizzly day, this is one of the six Platinum Koi that I have.