What does your pond look like ... Today?

[Nanner]

One quick photo tonight. Cardinal flower is really booming. Also thought oh no I got mosquito larvae in the pond. Looked closer more fish babies...,

 

[Rach]

Here is mine from a cold England at 05:30 am this morning

 

[gliebig]

 

[addy1]

That is beautiful Rach!

 

[MoonShadows]

@Rach What are those blue flowers in the foreground. They are SO blue.

 

[DutchMuch]

Pretty landscaping

 

[Jhn]

He decided he was hungry for some of the aquatic turtle food and fish food.

 

[Mike in Vermont]

That's a nice looking turtle.

 

[teeemkay]

The pond today. The white koi came up to say Hi as I was snapping the picture. Believe it or not, I started the season with three small water lettuces--they have multiplied like Gremlins since May. They are keeping the water fairly algae-free and giving the koi some extra shade.

 

[Lisak1]

FINALLY getting some lilies blooming! I think we had six or seven blossoms come up all at once this weekend. A sight for sore eyes! (Don't ask me for a picture - the mosquitoes are so bad it would be like a death sentence!)

 

[addy1]

Very nice looking! For some reason even with all the rain we have had, I have only seen one mosquito, squished the sucker. I figured they would be bad this year but not happening.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Very nice looking! For some reason even with all the rain we have had, I have only seen one mosquito, squished the sucker. I figured they would be bad this year but not happening.

We had them very bad in July but they've seemed to slow down now. I can walk in my garden with only a handful of them flying around me now. They were swarms a month ago.

 

[MoonShadows]

Despite all the rainy weather, we have had few mosquitos this season...perhaps the cooler weather is responsible.

 

[Mike in Vermont]

Thankfully, we have lots of bats and dragonflies this year. I'm seeing baby bats. too. I was worried about the white nose disease wiping them out. Also, these birds spend the whole day eating bugs. I'm not sure what kind they are.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I came up with a brilliant idea in Spring to move some of my Smooth Oxeye over my my Mexican Sunflowers. The flowers are similar-looking, but different colors. It looks amazing, except that all of my Smooth oxeye plants are loaded in powdery mildew. Not sure why, but they all look horrible. I cut a lot down to the ground and I hope I won't have this problem next year, but if I do, I'm just going to remove them all.

Regardless, the flowers look great next to each other.

Here's the pond. Ignore the cord. The house foundation is gonna be painted soon.