Apple Blossoms Pond Project and Progress

LOVE IT!

 

Thought you might..... hoping to do further improvements in spring, no point now... so lots of thinking over the winter months for ideas

 

Oh golly, I hope your comet soon recovers & returns to your pond where he belongs .

 

So do I, she was so beautiful and graceful..............just like me

 

maybe I should have said 'is'

 

To look out of your bedroom window at 6am and saying there's a black slug on the path, then realising its your sturgeon, what a surprise it must have been for the fish as well.

Well on return to the water it lay on its side and floated for a while well a day or so, it also had burnt its skin on its nose in the sun so how to treat.

Well a cream for its nose and patience till it had recovered, the floating on side took about 3 days but the burnt skin which had green algae on it took about 3 months.

 

Oh my goodness!!! Poor fish... but so funny

 

Whist gardening today, the fish came up for a feed..... so hungry ... I gave them a little feed and removed the remaining.

The pump etc. has done well over the winter months and the water is still crystal clear. I think I need to give it a clean so will have to read the instructions as I've forgotten how to do it

I tidied up the floating iris and grasses to find a load of frog/toad sporn..... and when I say a load I think every frog/toad in the area has been in the pond

I had a little visit to the garden centre but, I struggled a little with the rockery plants and think I may take a visit to Romsey Water World to see what they have on offer. I need to find my 'Fuchsia' @Anthony Rogers so that I can get it established this year, when do you think it will be advisable to introduce it?

Whilst at the garden centre I purchased

Bleeding Hearts
Tiger Flowers Mixed
Cornlilies Mixed
Echinacea Magnus for the Bee's
Iris Night Edition
Peony Celebrity
Echinops Ritro for the Bee's
Astilbe Arendsii Erika
Chocolate Cosmos
Crocosmaia Masonorum and George Davison
Spider Lilies Hymenocallis festalis
Canna Indica Cleopatra
Kniphofia Tritoma Red Hot Pokers

All ready to sort another area out.... which I'm hoping weather permitting tomorrow I can get cracking on...... The weather man said it was going to be cold but sunny.... but then who ever believes a weather man

 

Someone's going to be busy, Apple Blossom. He he. A lovely mix of plants. Will look forward to the pics. It's that time of year when we can see our vision on the not too distant horizons. The planning coming to life and time outside planting. Enjoy and I can't wait to see results.

 

Hi Apple Blossom

What a list....... Hope you've got your second mortgage sorted out

Just a couple of pointers for you sweetheart, the Chocolate Cosmos and Hymenocallis aren't fully hardy so need to be potted up and kept frost free ( probably during May for you ) before being planted out. They'll also need to be stored during the Winter.
I'm not sure about the Canna as I don't grow them, someone like @longk should be able to advise you better on that.


Have you got a " The Range " shop near you? They have a good selection if alpines/rockery plants at the moment at 99p each, both Spring and Summer flowering.

The Fuchsia is a F. Procumbens isn't it ? You should be able to get that from ClayLane Fuchsias ( their phone number's in the Fuchsia Thread ). ( I may be able to take a cutting off mine for you later on but it's still dormant at the moment ).

 

If bought from a GC then they're almost certainly virused. Google Canna virus and at the first signs bin them. Sorry.

More bad news - most Hymenocallis bulbs sold in GC's are a year or two away from flowering size. Grow on in a 3 litre pot per bulb watering and feeding well whilst in growth.

 

Hi can any one help to identify what this is and how to treat..... It's spreading around my pond

 

Luckily, I've just posted on my tread and noticed that I haven't recieved the posts from @Anthony Rogers and @longk

Thank you both for the information, firstly @longk I haven't as yet done anything with the Canna and not sure now if I should just bin it!! I have enough problems without adding to them

I will plant the hymenocallis as you have suggested ... Thank you

@Anthony Rogers no range shop near here that I know about but will later investigate thank you

Ohhhh your a star thank you for the fuchsia info I'm in the garden at mo and will check it out later

 

It's your call. It is most likely, not guaranteed. If you have no other Canna grow them on and bin them if they show any signs. If you have a variegated/stripy variety or the maroon leafed form it will be harder to tell.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=c...ved=0ahUKEwjIyPCssO3LAhXBLg8KHSTIBawQ_AUIBigB

Worth the effort. Repot them next year in a large pot very close together.

 

Thank you, still in the garden so will have read up later after tea