Water Gardening: How many ponders are out there ?? List your names - Update!, 1 by Sheila_FW

Sheila_FW wrote:
I just joined the group in June. My hubby and I live in Fort Worth TX. We have been ponding for about 5 1/2 years. We started out with a preformed double pond, we were so proud of it. We only had fantail goldfish in the preformed ponds, but sadly we lost them during a 3 day electrical outage last spring. As with most ponders the desire to go bigger hit us about 3 years ago. After a lot of trial and error of where to dig, we moved the small pond set-up to the otherside of the yard and dug an 11 x 14' pond with shovels, just ourselves and my son on occassion. We had to haul rocks from the front of the house down a slope to the back yard in a wagon. A bobcat won't fit in the space since prev owners enlarged the house.:-(( It took us a two week vacation and lots of Advil to accomplish the task. Finally we finished and filled it with water, plants and fish eventually. It is our labor or love for sure. Like TXMEL, we also have a Aquascape system. (Whose pond I will be able to see soon! We are just a few miles apart!!). Don't hate me....and quit drooling on your keyboard! Here is our large pond and waterfall. We plan on extending it to encompas the flowerbed near the skimmer, and also add a drybed and bog area. We should have at least double the size eventually.
I have enjoyed looking at all of the pictures and reading your future plans and descriptions of your ponds. I already feel at home on this site.:-))
Sheila in FWTX


This message was edited Aug 3, 2005 9:25 PM