What does your pond look like ... Today?

[tbendl]

Not so much pond but working on flower garden and an area on the other side of the yard that has been ugly. Next step is to replace the wood border with stone, I got 20 yesterday, only need about 100 more. I drive a mini so only 5 more trips to Lowes to go!! It is looking like rain today and tomorrow so fingers crossed the weekend is nice.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Everything coming nicely back to life for all of you, nice video JB, love the horse tail rush, Soon it will be big and beautiful.

Love your natural pond Figgy!

Good work T Bending! Rocks will look awesome!

 

[tbendl]

Thanks Colleen. Are you starting to get more warm weather?

 

[callingcolleen1]

of course today it is getting warmer now! Cause After 9 days off work in row, I have to get back work in 10 minutes!
I did finish another section of fence, slowly getting there but many trees and stumps in the way!

 

[addy1]

It has been hot hot hot, today dropping back to "normal" i.e. 70's, right now 56, at home. My bog is filling in, lilies are pushing leaves and buds up, one is blooming in the loop ponds.

We are sitting down in Virginia, Shenandoah Valley, test run with our rv trailer. The temperature down here went from 90 yesterday to a beautiful 70 today.

 

[tbendl]

Wow it's looking wonderful!
Mine is starting to clear again, I can see the hoses on the bottom. Shout out to @Meyer Jordan for his help. I bought some Nualgi to test but will wait and see if it continues to clear up on it's own. Happy Day people, happy day!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Fabulous Addy, your lily's are way ahead of mine. Water is still cool here so I only got two pads right now, although the yellow flag, grasses, and Marsh marigold are growing great for me.
Right now I got tons of flower peddles all over the place from the flowering trees.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I added another new plant called Smooth Black Sedge. I liked the blue-green leaves and I might mix it with a blue flag iris. I found it's also a rare native plant to WI, so I thought that was kind of cool.

and the purple iris I planted by the pond bloomed.

 

[tbendl]

JB that night shot is simply perfect. I wish my iris would bloom, I'm loving all the iris photos.

 

[sissy]

My neighbor has peacocks and ostriches and I am not sure which one is nastier .I think the ostrich wins after he spits at you .He has 2 emu's also but they do not come near the road .He has pigmy goats and fainting goats .Stupid goats falling over even if you look at them .Caught the deer eating apples off my apple tree this morning and then had to chase turkey's out of my yard .They try to fly up into my smaller trees and broke the top out of one of my pear trees Oh and I remember talking about that stuff you use on plants to keep the leaves from drying out and finally found it here again.My sister with reese who lost her dog max and her new puppy Bear .Some one heard the story and called her about puppies she had and wanted to give her one .This is where those idiots live that hit max and killed him .The houses on the rest of the road are great looking and this is a friend Icy's parents house that live next door to the dump those people live on .

 

[Beth_B]

My little pond isn't even two weeks old so it looks pretty barren! I dug it out week before last and put water in it Monday May 4.

Needs more rocks. Lots more rocks.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I found some Lemon Balm growing around my fire pit a few years ago, so today when I saw it again, I dug some up and put it near the bog. I love the smell of it.

This morning I realize the Golden Club plant I bought two years ago is finally flowering! I wasn't sure it ever would.

 

[addy1]

Neat about the golden club!

 

[Figgy]

Still waiting for the tadpoles to develop into little froglets over here in Merseyside, England:

I've been planning to buy some native British pond plants but the ones I want aren't in stock yet so I have to make do with what I've got already.

Here is our cat Figgy standing guard over the pond having chased off some pigeons which had been down earlier:

Here is one of the Pigeons who visited the pond for a drink:

 

[JBtheExplorer]

An American Toad looking for love. Today is the first day it started calling during the daytime.

Also another first is a Bullfrog sitting out during the day. They've only been coming out at night.