What does your pond look like ... Today?

[haver79]

Beautiful everyone! I need to go out and do some grooming to mine. Plants around the pond are getting too big and lilies need grooming. On my list today.

 

[Harshit]

My Molly sleeping like a dude..

And yeah, I'm so curious about color of my lily blooms...any guesses? because I have no idea Lol

 

[JBtheExplorer]

The good thing about the humidity is that I'm seeing a few new Frogs around the pond. They tend to wander when humidity is up because they can go further distances. This Green Frog is a new one, and I've seen two or three others.

 

[peter hillman]

This juvenile was in the box filter, about 14 months old. Since adding three air stones and some additional bio balls to my system I've seeen quite a bit less algae and sparkling water. Get that water moving!

 

[j.w]

@peter hillman I think he likes it better in the sparkling pond water

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Thought I'd show how my water lilies have looked over the last three years.

2014: My first year with the pond. The plants were fertilized and did better than I expected for their first year.

2015: I never fertilized them, and it showed. They didn't do well at all. The pads were small, they were in fewer numbers, and they turned yellow fairly quickly.

2016: I've been fertilizing them and they've been doing great! This is the best they've ever looked. In fact, I even have one less lily pot this year.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

 

[Jeff Kraemer]

My new patio pond build. I slapped this together over the weekend after getting the materials together, a little at a time, over the last three weeks.
Definitely happy with the way its turning out. Not finished yet, but here is some of the progress...

 

[peter hillman]

after getting the materials together, a little at a time,.

I like the gravel in the blue container.

 

[cas]

My new patio pond build.

I love seeing how you constructed your patio pond. Very nice.

 

[EricV]

I really need to update my Showcase (I've been to busy working on the pond), but since the pond part is nearing "completion", I figured I would post a couple of photos from this morning. I still need to fold back and bury the liner in a couple of places as well as finish the last layer of rocks on the waterfall. One of the main challenges in this is that I had about an 18" slope from the house to where the waterfall sits. So even though the total fall height is maybe 16-18", I needed to build a pretty sizable hill in the far corner.

Detail of the waterfall

My view (from my patio). In the very bottom left you can see my "walkup" to the pond which is flagstone/steppers.

This is the back side, the view I am giving my neighbors

 

[sissy]

my great grandson and the king before he went to doggie heaven pond and dry grass

 

[cas]

Love the rock work @EricV

 

[addy1]

A friend sent me a few small elephants ear tubers, I stuck them in the bog they are growing like crazy.

 

[sissy]

Addy they are like banana ears they never stop growing .I have to thin mine out when I get the time .My black mini ones are nice .