What does your pond look like ... Today?

[callingcolleen1]

Looks like everyone is a little ahead of me with pond plant growth. I have marvelous extra hardy zone 2/3 yellow flag and Marsh Marigold and some bull rush grass growing right now. Water too cold for tropicals right now. Last couple nights were frosty.

 

[pondering_life]

Added 2 of these guys over the weekend. Really pleased with the white one the colour is stunning

 

[rubyduby]

Added 2 of these guys over the weekend. Really pleased with the white one the colour is stunning

Wow! What a beauty!

 

[addy1]

Pretty ones!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Finally! My Bogbean bloomed! Been waiting for this since I bought it last spring.

 

[rubyduby]

Beautiful! Worth the wait.

 

[Phaewryn]

I started over. It finally got warm enough to take off the cover and tackle cleaning, but I found a rotting mouse in the bottom when skimming debris out, and decided that meant it was time to drain it completely and really give it a major fresh start. I had good algae but not worth the trade off of not knowing what parasites/bacteria are in the water. Looking to buy plants now. It did snow last week, but it was high level snow and the air temps were not below freezing (no accumulation). The water is staying above 50 at night with the heater, and hopefully the air temps will stay above freezing now as well. The moss is not looking good, some is OK, but most of it appears to have failed. Will have to find a sun variety or rethink my hill plans. Low ground cover suggestions for zone 5a with morning/afternoon shade and late afternoon/evening sun on a west-facing hill with poor/gravelly soil?

 

[JBtheExplorer]

More bogbean photos.

Marsh Marigold is still blooming, though past its peak.

Yellow Star Grass opened up today.

 

[Andrew]

It's starting to look like my pond plants didn't survive the winter but at least this guy's been hanging around the past few days. It should finally break 70 degrees here this weekend though it'll be thunderstorming most of the time.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

The pond.

 

[Jhn]

Some serious spawning happening today with the goldfish and koi.

 

[addy1]

This is one tough plant!

I planted two in the bog, thalia's and put one in a lowes bucket, full of holes, stuck in a shallow stream pond, like a foot deep, just a turn in the stream. The two in bog did not come back at least yet.

But the one that was stuck in a bucket, no water flow, no protection from the cold, may have really dried out, is growing! The red line.
So leaving it in the bucket.

 

[sissy]

got some yard work done but sun went in and some darker clouds .fish like the sun

 

[BKHpondcritters]

My pond looks...... full. We've had three straight days of rain, totaling over 7.5" (2.5 Tues., 3.5 Wed., 1.5 Thurs) But the sun came blazing out for most of the day today and everyone was loving it - fish, frogs, lizards, dogs, ME! lol

 

[GBBUDD]

This is one tough plant!

I planted two in the bog, thalia's and put one in a lowes bucket, full of holes, stuck in a shallow stream pond, like a foot deep, just a turn in the stream. The two in bog did not come back at least yet.

But the one that was stuck in a bucket, no water flow, no protection from the cold, may have really dried out, is growing! The red line.
So leaving it in the bucket. View attachment 129119

Place looks great Addy I love when lants grow and MINGLE