Water Gardening: Equilibrium, What do you think of the water garden so far???, 1 by snapple45

snapple45 wrote:
bogman, Your pics gave me pond envy. Mine is shut down for the winter. It does have a rock bottom. We used flat river stone with smaller pebbles in any gaps between the stones, just enough to disguise the liner. The koi love it and you are right about the extra surfaces for nitifying bacteria. Another neat thing is that waterlillies will actually root in the bottom under the rocks and in the creviceses. Found that out by accident.There is a small bog garden on the NE end not visible in the pic. It is not connected to the pond itself. What I want to know is does the container really hold the bamboo? I would love to have some but I spent about three years of spading, troweling, digging, cutting, cursing and finally herbicide on some invasive stuff my neighbor planted. This poor little old lady ( in her 80's) let it get all over her yard before she realized it was a problem. We wound up helping her family remove hers too. That stuff could have escaped an expressway median island. What variety did you plant?