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| While those of us in the frozen north wait, what plans are you making for your pond for the spring?
I'm going to add one new water lily - Arc En Ciel. I've been wanting one for a couple years now and this is the year. Maybe add a bamboo, too. I have a couple spots on the edge of the pond where I want to rearrange the rocks.
I'm never going to be "finished" with my pond. I love changing things.
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- Posted by pashta_2006 Z4 ADK NY (pashta@aol.com) on Sun, Jan 10, 10 at 14:36
| Sam, Like you, I'm never going to be finished. I moved my pond 2 years ago and I have not liked much of anything about the new location. No matter what I do, I don't like it. I've even thought about just pulling the whole thing out and going with a pond-less stream set-up. So, in the spring I'm going to do something, but I don't know what. If I keep the pond I am probably going to get a UV light to help with the algae. Anne |
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- Posted by eyesofthewolf 8b (My Page) on Sun, Jan 10, 10 at 14:42
I invested in a tropical lily last spring and was not sure if I could overwinter it and if it would be a pain, I thought that I would have to change the water but I have not and I just added mesquito pellets and this is the pictures of this summer and now   She seems to be wanting it to be spring to, little leaves are sprouting. As for future plans I need to thin out my gold fish they grew to big, I put a bunch of small 12 cent gold fish in the pond to use as test fish to make sure the water would be ok for the koi well none died and I have gold fish that are a foot long, Any one want some gold fish? And I plan to have more hibiscus around the pond they make it so very tropical. As everyone that I talked to when I first started my project pond said always go bigger than you first think well I wanted a small 250 gallon pond it ended up to be 1100 gallons and its still to small lol Take care and stay warm :o)Deanna |
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| I am planning to go do some rock hunting while it is still cold, while the snakes and poison ivy aren't as active. I tried to overwinter my dwarf papyrus, but lost it about a week ago. All the others, I left in the pond. I am anxious to see my first water lily. I wasn't able to get one until later in the season, but even for so short a time it put on alot of new leaves before it got really cold. The biggest plans for pond are more rocks. I didn't realize how many it would take. Praying for SPRING! |
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- Posted by timbersmith 6A (My Page) on Mon, Jan 11, 10 at 12:07
| Since the big project last year was to clean out and re-organize the main section of my inherited pond, this next spring will concentrate on re-building the stream section. The area where the liner attaches to the biofalls box needs to be repaired, so I'm going to rip out the stream and see if I can fit a smaller pool in its place using the existing liner, with a smaller stream or waterfall into the main pond. If that won't work then I have some left-over liner I can make work until I get an idea of how I want to really re-do the whole thing (and have the extra funds to do so). I'm also going to re-do some of the plantings - get rid of the current Arrowhead species for a different one, add some more Japanese Sweet Flag (the one clump I have was still nice and green until the snow covered it instead of being cut-back or dead-looking like everything else), and maybe try my hand at a tropical lily. I'll let the lotus alone this year to see if it does any better than last year, if not I'll replace it with a different one next year (it performed extremely well last year, but didn't get nearly as tall as I thought it would). The Colocasias are overwintering adequately so I'll need to re-pot them come springtime, but the Crinum Americanum is looking a little worse for wear and I don't know if it'll make it. |
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| I'll be glad to overtake the punctures that large snapping turtles did before their numbers were depleted by super dooper snapping turtle trap. B-a-a-a-a-d boys all gone now. Drought and land clearance locally had driven them out of local native ponds the last few years Complete a pond where I can round up some favourite hardy waterlilies set where the sky can reflect in the water and pose for snapshots Perhaps, set up a cold frame to start up fickle and tetchy varieties of tropical waterlily early in the year, pick out the best ones to grow on in flowering positions, thin out the spares for trades in Spring p/m me for swaps list, trades of interest, should have 50 or so varieties of tropical waterlily on the spares list, sprouted tubers and grown out starts should be good to go April/May |
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- Posted by turnerwaterscaping 5 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 11, 10 at 14:04
| hey timbersmith try adding a little peat to your soil when you replant the swamp lily. Also check the depths it may a little deep as well. Frugalgardener great lily choice ive had a few over the years. One great thing about the lily is the leaves actual have pinkish to reddish tint as well. If your looking for a dwarf bamboo it stays around 18" tall and loves the shade. A varigated varity would be tigress bamboo it too is short as well. Yep starring at the snow really suxs right now lol! |
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- Posted by timbersmith 6A (My Page) on Mon, Jan 11, 10 at 14:55
| turnerwaterscaping - I'll try that, thanks. When it was in the pond I had it in plain clay-rich soil under about an inch of water (overflow from the lotus container flowed into this area and then down into the pond). I fertilized it a couple of times over the year, but it didn't do much of anything except apparently sit there. I almost didn't bother to bring it inside to overwinter, but then I dug it up in Oct/Nov and put it in a ceramic pot in front of a south-facing window. I also found out at that time that it had actually been doing something instead of just sit there - it had been busy growing a couple off-shoots. Since I brought it in for the winter it's been slowly turning green (was originally deep red), and the leaf tips have been gradually dying back as well. No fertilizer, just water. I am in the process of setting up my seed-starting setup for the garden this year, so I'll stick it under those lights and see if that'll help. It was kinda a spur-of-the-moment purchase decision, so I won't be devastated if it doesn't make it. - Mike |
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- Posted by turnerwaterscaping 5 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 11, 10 at 15:19
| mike It should perk up under the grow lights over the wintr with peat additive and a little warmer water. It also is a little deep in the water typically they preferr wet feet situations they can grow in deeper water but takes alot of adjusting for the plant. There a nice plant but a little picky thats all. Greg |
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