Water Gardening: OUR POND...OR...LAKE!!, 1 by blckwolf256

blckwolf256 wrote:
I wanted to plant some trees around the pond for shade and to help fight the algea battle...hubby said NO...he doesnt want to deal with leaves...so the pond stays GREEEEN!!!
I have water lilies in the pond..they are slowly mulpiplying...I have tryed frog bite, water lettus, water Hyc. none of them live more than a week or so due to the SUN!!!
I took a huge round cattle tub, inverted it, and placed flat rocks on it trying to make shade...that has not helped either.
Oh...BTW this pond has turned out to be(inside measurments 50 foot x 60 foot)