Water Gardening

So there is hope for mine yet. I had one in the garden that flowered, it was almost hidden so I potted it up, put it in the pond and hey presto, no flowers last year. I have three seperate pots of them now in different locations, one being in the pond, here's hoping.

My pond has had a visit by a heron, we have put a terracotta plant pot in the bottom for the fish to hide. At the moment they are feeling very nervous and not coming up for feeding...Its all very sad !

A pond is a wonderful thing to have. I dug mine out to max depth of 35" concreted the bottom and 3 coat rendered the sides. I then purchased chopped straw mat, resin, hardener and some cheap brushes. The method is the same as boat building. 1/ Mix a portion of resin and hardener, paint this...

enlarged picture is too small. novel idea but only for the niche market, some people begrudge paying £40 for the filter. Also how long will yours last?

:thumb:Stunning fmay....pretty unique I'd say

We started off with our plants in containers but they still outgrew them at a stupid rate and were difficult to divide and separate so now they are loose and can be divided as necessary.

Thanks all. I am pleased with it. Not perfect but O.K for and old granny.:D I didn't want it to look to kept, if you no what I mean. I don't clean the moss off the rocks etc. I'm growing the acer and a few other plants for shade. Being south facing it can get very hot in the sun. I...

Lyn, how are your fish getting on? i do hope they are all ok & that the sick ones are now better. Sorry to hear that one died. cheers

i never said or mentioned balanced.i also saidI am saying no matter what the colour is if there are wildlife visiting it, enjoy it

thanks all great advice

No, I've just been out to check and we've still got millions of them. I daren't clear any weed out the pond because they are eerywhere:rolleyes:

i went on a short break to Wales about 3 weeks ago, called into Stapley on the way back, even though they are just getting things ready for 2008 (revamping old water features) it still looked nice

Uv lamps should be changed once a year, also the quartz sleeve should be cleaned too

Hi gardenlearner you could try putting a layer of top soil down first on top of the bricks and liner with the edge of the grass just touching the water, that way you create a slope for frogs and beetleregards siham

I'm really relieved about the comments about them taking a while to get going - I thought mine was a goner, it's looking quite sulky but I guess it's just a teenager (in water lily years) and it's to be expected!

no you dont have to tell anyone as its only the cresterd newt thats protected

Well we have the pond back in again. my husband made a kind of wooden support for the side that wanted filling in but it took that long to do then when he started to fill in with sand, he hadn't got enough so it was back to the shop for some more, then when he came back i filled it little more...

The frogs insist on going into my Koi pond they are ok at present the Koi are just starting to feed when they are in full appetite mode they eat the frogs or anything that enters the pond, I am forever fishing them out and putting them into the wildlife pond.

Hi again Tangle. Having checked out your filter (Oase Biotec 5)it seems perfectly capable of handling what you already have. I would however be careful before adding more fish as filter ratings can be misleading. The phrase `up to` is key in this regard. If I were you I`d add a decent U/V to the...

http://www.stroudvalleysproject.org/CamPeakPond.html?name=CAMPOND Our pond was empty within weeks when the livestock were moved away.The clay dried and cracked at the waterline because the Cow's hooves had kept it puddled as they drank.