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

bogman wrote:
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I agree 100% with your views on invasiveness! It's our responsibility to garden rsponsibly since we should know what's invasive in our area. It is unrealistic to expect someone from, say here in Northeast OH to know what is invasive in WA and vise versa.Garden centers that sell locally should also be responsible and know what they are offering for local sale. It's the impulse sales and the local weekend gardeners who can cause problems with invasive species. Mail order companies are another story because they don't deal with impulse buyers as a rule. How many average Joe's order from specialty catalogs?? People see my Forest Farm, or Plant Delights, or Arrowhead alpines catalogs and think I'm nuts! "I'm not looking through a catalog with no pictures and only foreign (latin) names!". Unfortunately when I go to the nursery I have to translate my usual names (again latin) to something they can understand. I should have gotten my doctorate in Botany instead of becoming just a gardening nut with 30 years experience and NO degree! I have a couple of true botanists who are good friends and we enjoy getting together and playing our favorite game..."Stump the Botanist!"

If my bamboo gets away, and the New England Bamboo Companies containment system says if I followed instructions it won't, I've learned a lesson and the moment I find the containment has been compromised the entire garden gets dug up and all runners will be terminated! If it punctures the pond liner Oops, my bad!

here's a couple more photos I took a short while ago, the snow is mostly gone now. this first is of the stream bed that runs between the ponds that is not visible in any of the other pictures I've posted.