that would stand for "Before Pond" and "After Pond". Here are two pictures of the before and after of my little pond area. It's amazing what this did for the landscaping. Course it is quite full of plants now that it's been in the ground for almost 5 yrs. In fact, it's time to go "trash the pond" again. The mint and bacopa are trying to take everything over. Here is the before shot (this is already minus the dead tree in the middle of the "courtyard")...
Here is the "AP" shot...What a difference it made!!!
What a lovely transformation that is. I love the look of your pond, so natural.
I just posted my BF & AP on the other thread of "Who has Ponds"...check it out.
Donna
That is gorgeous!!!
Thanks! I'll have to see if I can find a picture of my pond that is more recent. I have all sorts of plants in there now. There is usually something blooming in there all year.
I like your pond, too, Donna. It's amazing what a difference mature plants can make!
Is that a diving board in the bottom right hand corner? LOL
I'm glad to hear you say Bacopa is taking over. We have a very bad weed here called Creeping Charlie, impossible to kill. I always thought Bacopa looked the same. Maybe it is. Creeping Charlie came here as a beautiful garden plant, now out of control!
ßernie
CG: Bacopa isn't the same as Creeping Charlie. I know what that is from growing up in WI. What I have is Bacopa caroliniana (Blue hyssop, Lemon Bacopa) and Bacopa monnieri (Baby's Tears or Water hyssop). The ISB Atlas of FL Vascular plants has some good images of B. monnieri: http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/images.asp?plantID=3764#
And I guess the cover on the skimmer could become a diving board inadvertently. I had a lady walk up to see the pond and step right up on it. She was very interested in my Lemon Bacopa for some reason. Good thing she was VERY petite--it's not meant to hold lots of weight. She didn't speak/understand any English so I could warn her that it could collapse under you and you'd find yourself face-first in the pond. Probably staring some 6" goldfish and a man-eating leopard frog right in the face. No snakes--that I know of.
CG: Here's a link to B. caroliniana on the same ISB website: http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/images.asp?plantID=3118#
