Water Gardening: Green Water, 1 by microb

microb wrote:
Keeping the satellite dish level was a challenge. In fact my first attempt resulted in it toppling over and bending the edge so it is no longer a perfect circle.
We don't get too much mosquito problem here. We are at 2200 ft level and it does get cool at times - down to upper 40's some years and of course the fish help.
Attached is a photo of one of the round ponds. We do not have county water so rely on rain catchment. The pond is made from a section of old water catchment tank lined with a food grade liner custom made for the pond. Pond is 18 feet diameter and 2 feet deep. There are some goldfish, swordtails and a shibunkin. Australian tree ferns tower 20 feet over the pond and the edge of the pond has bromeliad. Because the sides are sheer I'm trying to find a way of edging the pond with bog plants. Currently I hand plastic window boxes of the side suspended from hollow concrete tiles. I can put plants in the hollow tiles around the edge. Not the ideal system. Any ideas? I tried spanning the pond with a 20 foot long bamboo pole and suspend pots from the pole but difficult to get them to the middle and it didn't look pretty.
A another identical pond is just below this one. Future plans call for a waterfall between the two.
Enough rambling on for now. Have to get this uploaded before out "dial up" system kicks me off line