Goodbye Lawn, Hello Pond!

WOW! & WOW! @kindredspirit you have a fabulous garden! I've read through all the 5 pages on this thread & find your garden fabulous! What original ideas you have as well! A floating Pagoda! A rusty lady! A pond filled with beautiful water lilies! The photos are also first class! The plants look wonderful! Looking forward now to seeing more of your beautiful garden as the year unfolds.
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Yellow flag iris.




Bog cotton.




Water's quite clear. (Famous last words??)




Lithodora, Helianthemum & Calceolaria (and dead fish!) at the side of the water garden.




Rusty lady, floating pagoda & bamboo screen.

 

@kindredspirit Lovely to see how your garden is advancing with the growing season!

 

What an amazing pond @kindredspirit We had a small patio pond which once it went into the ground and was accessible, attracted frogs, dragonflies, etc. Three years ago, we also had a largish preform pond, which has gone bonkers with pond life. It looks completely naturalised and this year, we had toad spawn for the first time. Ponds are just fascinating.

 

Well done on attracting all that wildlife. Ponds are lovely.

 

Red hot pokers & foxgloves beside the water.



Western marsh orchids, which blew in from somewhere.



Lilies.



Bird's foot trefoil.



Dierama "Kilmurray White".

 

Cattle trough with inbuilt ballcock used as small pond.



Lobelia "Queen Victoria" growing in the water. But when I grow them in the garden, molluscs decimate them in two days. :(



Bulrushes spreading everywhere. Clean-out coming this Autumn.



"Mega Mels" Stokesia growing in pots at the water's edge.

 

Canna and the last of the water lilies for this year.

 

Lovely pond image!

 

Darmera peltata (Indian rhubarb) flowering before the leaves emerge.


Showing the supermarket vegetable trays, that the water lilies and other water plants are planted in.

 

Such a gorgeous pond and garden, I've always loved dierama 'angels fishing rods', I must try and get some for my garden. Beautiful photos!

 

A truly inspirational garden @kindredspirit! I clicked on the home link in your signature line and recommend that others do too for some more stunning images and design triumphs .

 

More Western Marsh Orchids popping up around the pond.

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