Water Gardening: I Finally Decided: Do A Pond!!!, 1 by MollyMc

MollyMc wrote:
Just a little update. Finally after 2 weeks of solid rain, today was dry and HOT.

I had a plan. Get some mulch and define some flower beds with that and a little wire fencing. The pond got some attention and the birdbath did as well.

Here's the pond now. I have some EE's there, some I received from Elyearcrazy, got some lizard tail, papyrus and horsetail from Rylaff. I didn't have room to put them all in the pond so I made another bog bucket and sunk it into the ground behind the pond. I picked up that white and green Louisiana Iris in Orlando (bloom will be purple) I have callas done blooming and setting seeds now, and today I picked up some ornamental grasses, hair and sedge. Judy Cooksey sent me some water lettuce. The 2 kinds of aquatic Sensitive are growing quite nicely and the lily pads are as well, just haven't had any blooms lately. I think the goldfish are down there biting the blooms off. I have fished out 3.

I put mulch down in the "viewing" area with some stepping stones I got from Jannich at the Florala roundup. Now I just need to find some small bog type plant to put in froggies planter.

The pond is full right now. I'm not sure what the next stage of life the callas will go through and I expect the goldfish may keep eating that lily. (Hey, I HAVE been feeding them) So anyway, it's an ever changing project.



This message was edited Jun 12, 2005 9:47 PM