Ponds in Canada

[addy1]

Very pretty Colleen, looks like a nice place.

 

[j.w]

Wow, beautiful place! A piece of tropical paradise right there in your town. How neat! I love those cute little turtles. Maybe you and your hubby can show up when the place opens every day and bring your breakfast, lunch and dinner each day and stay in there till Spring arrives :razz:

 

[callingcolleen1]

Yes, need to play in my greenhouse now, I could spend hours moving the junk around in my tropical minature gardens. It starts in the greenhouse, then things move outside on nice days, before I know it I am back 'ponding it" ! Just look at all that junk!

 

[gardengimp]

I am very envious of your "junk"

 

[callingcolleen1]

Thanks gardengimp, My junk is all very cheap! I always say junk looks very good in the garden! Meanwhile, Spring has almost sprung and Easter is just around the corner now! I love Easter, hoping all the snow from the front yard will be gone by then!

Inside my green playhouse, everything now turning into a jungle, wild animals that are trapped inside wander from pot to pot. The pymgy giraffe likes to be petted and is now quite hand tame, and loves to hide in my jade bonsai tree! The Pygmy giraffe is my favorite, living on a diet of lush greens, flowers and loves Easter Eggs too... the smoke from that burning old pothead must be affecting my mind! Ha ha ha their coming to take me away now!

 

[j.w]

You are such a refreshing breath of fresh air Colleen! You could brighten up the day of just about anyone w/ all your creative talent using your what you call "Junk" :blueflower: How are your little underwater froggies doing?

 

[callingcolleen1]

Little froggies are bad!! They are getting fat eating the baby pladdy fish! Going to move him or the babies to another tank or something.....

 

[callingcolleen1]

Oh ya, hubby says my greenhouse is really my "playhouse" and I must have been deprived as a child! He he he

 

[j.w]

Froggy is just hungry for some nice meat. What is the poor guy supposed to eat?

Oh poor Colleen, but now you have a playhouse so you play away to your little hearts content :razz:

 

[callingcolleen1]

Spring is now here here, today by the pond, just before the big spring snowstorm that just suddenly blew in .....

 

[sissy]

I saw a bunny in your green house colleen and not sure if a eating bunny or a stripper bunny ahh playhouse huh hmmmmm now we all know what your baking LOL

 

[callingcolleen1]

Puppies are always on the lookout for nice tasty Easter bunnies too!

 

[Fishylove]

Very nice coleen! Your neck of the woods looks more like spring is coming than ours!! Lol I like all of your succulents, I plan on starting a miniature garden pond with succulents. Hey, do u know how I can propagate them? Can I do it by cuttings or do I need to have roots on them to start em'?

 

[j.w]

Colleen is that your big island of floating Iris that is all brown in the pond there and if so do you have to trim all that stuff or do you just leave it and let the green grow up through it all?

 

[callingcolleen1]

Fishy love, succulents are the easiest to grow, you can start many succulents with just a leaf! Although a bigger cutting would do better quicker. Succulents like Sandy well drained soil and do really good in very shallow clay dishes that are NOT glazed, as glazed dishes do not drain away excess water so succulents can rot in wet conditions. I also use cactus soil to plant up new pots and mist new cuttings daily.

JW, that big mess of dried stuff (on the Yellow flag) just goes away and srivels to nothing by spring, and what is left just pulls away when ready in spring. The plant will tell you when it is ready to shed the last years stubble, it will pull away like nothing. The dried stubble is good for the plant and will protect the new shoots from frost. have you ever noticed the cattails and rushes that grow naturally by the creek, they do not get "cleaned", yet by April or May the stubble is just gone? The plant will reabsorb the old growth and get bigger! Here is what my yellow flag looked like last April ......