What does your pond look like ... Today?

[sissy]

Are you sure it is getting enough fertilizer bagsmom ,they are even heavier feeders when they flower

 

[sissy]

my desert rose has been blooming like crazy and for 1 dollar off the dead plant rack at lowes it is doing great Ugly plant but the hummingbirds love the flowers

 

[bagsmom]

Here are some pictures of the pond! You can see on the one -- a pink lotus blossom and its already brown and dead sibling. Sissy, I will try adding fertilizer this weekend. It's worth a try!
Including a goofy picture of me with my jurassic elephant ears! They are massive this year!
Also put in a picture of a lotus leaf with water droplets. The picture doesn't show how crazy cool it looked in real life. The water drops were like diamonds!

 

[sissy]

my elephant ears did not get as big as last year and can't understand why since we had so much rain .I fertilized them the same but wonder if all the rain washed the fertilizer out into the lawn instead of to the roots of the plants .We got some pretty hard rains .Sweet potato vines are doing better .I

have black sweet potato vines also and so are the black elephant ears .

 

[bagsmom]

@sissy -- I love sweet potato vines! Yours are beautiful! I always get these little gold metallic beetles that eat them up. The one year I didn't have the beetles, the vines went crazy and came back the next season. I moved them to put something else in, and lo and behold, I had a MASSIVE tuber under the surface. I am not exaggerating at all when I say it was the size of my head! Crazy!

 

[sissy]

mine are 3 years old and just cut them back for witer and hang in the basement

 

[sissy]

I want to plant the black sweet potato around the black elephant ear with these purple plants around the outside .Some of my new electrical work also

 

[Lisak1]

@sissy - you are a wonder woman!

@bagsmom - not goofy at all! You're adorable! And your pond is SO BEAUTIFUL! Just try and convince anyone that it's brand new!

@addy1 - obviously being neglected suits your pond just fine! We were at a pond store this week and they had snails for sale. TWO DOLLARS A PIECE! The last time I bought them I got 20 for $10.

 

[addy1]

obviously being neglected suits your pond just fine!

I have never totally ignored it like I have this year. The insane bees took over.

 

[sissy]

water hyacinth seems to like the heat .It is filling up the waterfall pond and spilling over into the pond .Pickles waiting for his mail lady

 

[Lisak1]

The insane bees took over.

 

[EricV]

We were at a pond store this week and they had snails for sale. TWO DOLLARS A PIECE!

Two bucks a pop is the cheapest I've seen them in the West 'burbs. Usual is $3 or $3.50. I bought a bunch mail order last year and eventually lost almost all of them, so this year I picked up 10 for $20 and figure they can multiply or not. (I'm not blaming mail order, could very well have lost them because they had too little to eat in a new pond.)

 

[sissy]

all electric wires run all boxes in place and now just need Mike to put the breaker in .I could do it but better an electrician do it .put the boxes on a switch so off uv's and pumps to clean pumps in the winter they will be plugged in the switched outlet that runs up to my master bedroom closet

 

[Nanner]

1st triple almost a quadruple.One.was on its way out by a day.

 

[pecan]

Not today, but yesterday evening.