Water Gardening: Raised Ponds easy, cheap, fun and portable, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Ves, Yes, you fit right in with your raised pond and it is a beautiful pond. I added the portable because so many people would like to have a pond but may still be living in apartments, condos and places where they can't dig in. They may not realize that just because you can't dig a hole in the ground doesn't mean you can't have a pond. We have quite a few rocks here, too. I use them in walkways, stonewalls and edging on some of the beds. That is a beautiful arbor area so pretty. What are the climbers growing up the arbor posts?

Mibus2, I don't have UV lights in either of my ponds or my Fathers and we don't have many algae issues. My other small pond has string algae but that is the only type of algae it has ever had and I hand collect it. The box pond has never had algae in the past other than that initial start up bloom which then disappears. This year after we rehabbed it and restarted it, we got that start up algae bloom but it is clearing up nicely on it's own. That's not to say that you would not need one or want one, just that I haven't had the need for one yet.

You all have some very lovely ponds. Here is a new picture of my box pond taken this morning. The plants are all growing very nicely although the only thing that seems to want to bloom is the Pickerel. Holly