What does your pond look like ... Today?

[brokensword]

A happy autumn to everyone!View attachment 143385

I'm not sure if you're showing off the pond and fish or that gorgeous red maple!!! We'll say it's both and keep it on the QT!

 

[Troutredds]

Guilty as charged!

 

[FountainMan]

Enjoying the pond earlier tonight.

 

[Troutredds]

Here’s the same view (as my recent post) of our pond after three power outages and extensive tree damage from the 2021 “Pacific Bomb Cyclone”. Note my custom pre-filter, keeping the big stuff out of our skimmer box, pump and filtration system. We had no damage to our roof though, thank goodness.

 

[Troutredds]

I’m so glad the wind died down today!

 

[j.w]

I think people south of us had more damage w/that storm. We had rain and some wind and only a blip of a power outage. Thankful!

 

[BobDE]

Can't believe this water lily. First time I have ever had one this late! Must be the fertilizer.

 

[brokensword]

Can't believe this water lily. First time I have ever had one this late! Must be the fertilizer.View attachment 143531View attachment 143532

looks great! Where there's a will there's a way, I guess! I have two lilies I 'salvaged' from last year and hoped they would follow yours and others' lilies this year and bloom for me so I KNOW what color they are but no, they just mock me with pads (still) and laugh as I curse their indefinite ancestry!

Glad you're still getting color out of your pond! Got next week planned to put up the winter tent, so will have to rely on the cameras then for any pond fun, for a while.

 

[addy1]

My poor lilies were budding and blooming some mean person, that hates cold water in cold weather, yanked them out and did a chop job.

The 1000 gallon pond they are still blooming I have not had the time to groom the running free lilies'

 

[brokensword]

that hates cold water in cold weather, yanked them out and did a chop job.

I'd say sic GB on such bad meanie but well, he's pulling up lame this year, I hear, foregoing any fall drudgery to happily sit back on his Hog and laugh at the rest of us for being such dopes by taking all our summer vegetation down! Can you believe it? Claims it's all for the frogs...

 

[FountainMan]

Today I completed a rill that goes from the header pond to the main pond. Planted Pennywort to eventually conceal the liner along the backside.

 

[FountainMan]

These two are gossiping about me!

 

[mrsclem]

Watch the pennywort. If it escapes, you will never get rid of it!

 

[brokensword]

Today I completed a rill that goes from the header pond to the main pond. Planted Pennywort to eventually conceal the liner along the backside.

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'rill'; good word--very few even know what it means, so I applaud your useage!

As mrsclem noted, just watch your pennywort! I haven't found it too invasive yet and have actually been overwintering some to make sure I don't lose it, but this summer, I did have some make it outside and I too am not making sure it's not a problem! I find it grows nicely in a pot, though and had flowers on it for the first time. Surprised me what they looked like!



And, they told me what they were saying and though your name DID come up, I was sworn to secrecy so unless you gots lots of bribe money, I can't repeat it...(got to raise some $$ now to pay CW's ransom zoom fee. Or something like that!).

 

[FountainMan]

'rill'; good word--very few even know what it means, so I applaud your useage!

As mrsclem noted, just watch your pennywort! I haven't found it too invasive yet and have actually been overwintering some to make sure I don't lose it, but this summer, I did have some make it outside and I too am not making sure it's not a problem! I find it grows nicely in a pot, though and had flowers on it for the first time. Surprised me what they looked like!



And, they told me what they were saying and though your name DID come up, I was sworn to secrecy so unless you gots lots of bribe money, I can't repeat it...(got to raise some $$ now to pay CW's ransom zoom fee. Or something like that!).

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I got the pennywort from a friend several years ago. The plants in the rill and header are planted in pea gravel whereas the ones in the main pond are free floating near the irises. It’s funny, but it wasn’t until about August the pennywort began taking off. Prior to that it was competing with watercress and was loosing to the watercress. Then the caterpillars and aphids ravaged the watercress almost overnight and once they were gone, the pennywort made a rebound.

The pennywort are like miniature lotuses.