cas's pond

[cas]

Thanks @fuzzi !

 

[bggenie]

I love your pond and your landscaping, flowers are fantastic.

 

[cas]

Thank you @bggenie . The pond is so fun to garden around. It's an ever changing hobby. First the pond was mostly shade due to a tree near by but that tree died and I ended up with all sun so the plants were changed. Now a tree that I planted years ago in the middle of the yard has matured and I am starting to have shade again!

Here is a picture of the flowers behind the pond this summer. Some of them are being changed out to hostas because of the shade.

 

[Tula]

Gorgeous flowers @cas ! I remember @JBtheExplorer mentioning something about using wild ginger ( at least that's what I think he mentioned ) as a native alternative to hostas ? I'm going to look into them next Spring, however I have and love my hosta garden and am particularly fond of the Empress Wu hosta.

 

[cas]

Thanks @Tula . I am googling it now!

 

[cas]

Got the pond cleaned up and running on Sunday. Very mild winter. Pond never totally iced over. Of course I did have the aerator running, but some years the water still ices all the way over for a week or two.

 

[Tula]

Such a happy sight I really want to take the cover off and get mine up and running , but Mr. P is redoing some of the plumbing.

 

[cas]

Such a happy sight I really want to take the cover off and get mine up and running , but Mr. P is redoing some of the plumbing.

I can't wait to see your new bog once the plants start to take off.
It's so nice to be able to sit outside by the pond. It does look a little depressing with nothing growing right now but some of the tulips and daffodils are starting to come up.
It doesn't look like I lost any fish either! It's amazing, but once that waterfall is running, the fish come up from the bottom and want to be fed. Water temp still 44 degrees so I am going to make them wait a little longer.

 

[fuzzi]

Very nice! My pond never froze, either, and the frogs have been hanging around all winter. At one point I counted five Green frogs in the "new" pond (preform) that I've not yet backfilled and connected.

 

[Tula]

I'm v very excited to start up the bog. I have wondered if I could start it first, while hubby is working on other plumbing, but since I have no previous experience with it, I've been conservative. We're having above average temps this week, but rainy and cool.

 

[addy1]

I have wondered if I could start it first,

Start it! I had mine running long before we got the final pump set up. Get those plants going

 

[Tula]

Start it! I had mine running long before we got the final pump set up. Get those plants going

OK, I'm on it.....I'll fire it up tomorrow

 

[GBBUDD]

It doesn't look like I lost any fish either! It's amazing, but once that waterfall is running, the fish come up from the bottom and want to be fed. Water temp still 44 degrees so I am going to make them wait a little longer.

My fish have been active the last couple weeks on an off and they have definitely been munching on the rocks, so i have fed them just a little enough for everyone to get a bite or two

 

[GBBUDD]

I was just out at the pond and low and behold frogs all over the place two nice days close to 65 and we got frogs

 

[GBBUDD]

I love your pond and your landscaping, flowers are fantastic.