ooh, puttering about the ponds

[adavisus]

doh! I might start ambling around some new ponds here, am a noob here!

Any tips on favorite picture threads to ogle over?

Regards, andy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21940871@N06/
http://swglist.wordpress.com/

 

[addy1]

Welcome!

Go to the construction threads and the photo section. Lots to see and read there

 

[adavisus]

ahah, thanks, established picturesque ponds are something I hope to find!

Regards, andy

 

[sissy]

you show some interesting flowers on the 2 sights you posted up there adavisus are you considering using them or are you using some and what luck have you had with them .I live 15 minutes from NC and there is a great koi farm there on hwy. 14 in Riedsville

 

[sissy]

I find a whole lot of pics of established ponds on you tube it can be interesting to see them again on there after 5 or 6 years and what people say about plants and mistakes they have made .Not all have that but so far have seen 4 of them that did that and was amazed at the changes .There are a few thousand of them ,I think I have looked at over 600

 

[adavisus]

Hi Sissy,
I've been tinkering with waterlilies a whiles, after a couple of years of drought knocking things about, there might be a few on the wishlist its about time I got round to trying to replace a gap or two

The hardy waterlilies do well, though the remorseless grind of freeze and thaw destroyed a couple on ponds being renovated in last Decembers unusual early hard freeze,

The tropical waterlilies kinda sorta cope well though they can be more fickle than the hardies in the volatile climate here. Winter freezes are touch and go for some tubers, excessive heat in Summer can bump off others

Regards, andy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21940871@N06/
http://swglist.wordpress.com/

 

[sissy]

well here this winter I put mine in a barrel in the basement and lucky I did because it really was a bad winter here .I brought them out 5 weeks ago but have left them in the barrel as I have koi and they destroy them and tried one last week in the pond and they ate the leaves right off it .Had to take it out .I still have my old preformed pond and I am in the process of putting that back in the ground ,but not enough hours in the day .I just bought another house that has a pond and I'm trying to clean that out .Yesterday we took out 6 goldies so there are still fish in it after 2 years or so of neglect and not sure how many more may be in there .We had to clear a way to the pond first

 

[j.w]

Andy
Nice to see you here. You have such lovely lilies and I've seen many of them before.
Remember me...................jw :lol:
Hey everyone Andy has lots of wonderful plants and he knows how to grow them very well :bowdown:

 

[adavisus]

Why howdy JW,

I have trouble trying to keep them from growing out of control. I keep trying to find slow growing ones!

Perhaps I ought to dig up some more turf and put in a few more ponds, hmmm?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21940871@N06/
http://swglist.wordpress.com/

 

[j.w]

Andy you should post photo's of your ponds as I'm sure everyone would love to see them :bowdown:

 

[adavisus]

Now now, JW no fair, you jolly gosh darn know your pond is the pertiest of them all, my dull puddles would look mundane

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21940871@N06/
http://swglist.wordpress.com/

 

[addy1]

Post some pictures adavisus of your pond, those lily pictures are beautiful.

I put some lilies I was given last year into my pond, but it got too cold before they really grew. Waiting to see what blooms I get. They just started growing leaves, so at least survived the 8 inches of ice I had covering the pond over winter.

 

[marla]

Welcome Andy...just joined here myself, seems like a very friendly bunch of ponders.

 

[adavisus]

Well hulloooo Marla! Now you do have some perty ponds!

I Shall wait in expectation to peak at your Summer photo's, minus Mr. and Mrs. Heron!

:::sniffle::: Alas if only my ponds could fit on a photo!

Regards, andy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21940871@N06/
http://swglist.wordpress.com/

 

[sissy]

would love to have water lillies like that but can see them in others pond and appreciate them .Koi are very destructive creatures .Friendly ,love attention but destructive and don't think twice about what they do bad or good