Water Gardening: New pond project now under way - join us!, 1 by imapigeon

imapigeon wrote:
snapple, your pond is just beautiful, and I also LOVE the willow. It's on my long list of plants I've managed to kill! All it takes is a day of 107 degrees in the summer here, and things get completely toasted. Hence my love of succulents......

Debra: your woods are gorgeous! The color you're going to put on those berms will really stand out against the green background. Are those trees already leafed out, or is that a picture from summer?

So this isn't actually a shot of my pond yet, but it's the reason I haven't been able to work on any landscapting for the past year----this is my little pottery studio that we've been building in our spare time, such as it is. (My filter pond is in the foreground---and you can see what I mean about the edges.) This picture is about a month old, and it was the middle of the "Big Freeze of '07". The parrot's feather in this pond died back badly, and I thought I might have lost it---but it's all green now, so it looks a bit better! We've been so focused on getting this studio finished that I haven't had the time for much else in the project department. Since this was taken, I've put in a nice white vinyl tile floor (finished yesterday, just in time to track mud in today when it started to rain again). But we desperately need the rain, so I'm not complaining. Told DH "not to worry---this is what Swiffers are for".