What does your pond look like ... Today?

[sissy]

I had that happen clear 1 day and a week later green again but fish and that darn dog did not help my water quality

 

[tbendl]

Yeah I realized shortly after my happy dance that I have to get into the pond this week and move some plants and re-position my pump and a few other things that will most likely cloudy up the water but then decided to just live in the moment.

 

[sissy]

I just put quilt batting in my filter to help clear it up again

 

[tbendl]

I have no filter besides plants...lol

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Last night I told myself to trim my huge Mexican Sunflower plants because rain was coming and rain is the plants' kryptonite. I probably should've listened to myself. The rain destroyed them.

here they are on Aug. 30 (huge plant, orange flowers)

and here they are today...

I saved as much as I could because of how much the local bumblebee population relies on it as well as butterflies and hummingbirds, but it sure looks ugly now!

 

[tbendl]

Oh wow. So you have to trim it down when you start heading into rainy season? Don't you get random rain throughout the summer? It looks so bedraggled and sad now.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

So you have to trim it down when you start heading into rainy season? Don't you get random rain throughout the summer?

We haven't had too many rainy days this summer, but at least a branch or two broke every time it did rain. It always filled in quick enough so that it didn't look bad. So, when we had a forecast saying we could get up to 2" of rain overnight, I figured I should probably trim it, at least some of the leaves, so the water weight doesn't snap it... yeah, I probably should've.

I even had it tied to the fence, but the plant got so ridiculously tall since I tied it, that it snapped well above the rope. I will definitely be planting more seeds next year though. They attracted so many hummingbirds, butterflies and bumble bees that it was well worth it.

 

[tbendl]

Well it's a beautiful plant. It would never grow down here with all the crazy intervals of rain we've had this summer.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Well it's a beautiful plant. It would never grow down here with all the crazy intervals of rain we've had this summer.

yeah, it would probably do better in a large tomato-cage type setup. I definitely did not expect this 4'-6' plant to get to 9' though! The seed packet was a little off on that one!

 

[tbendl]

eh just a weeee bit.

 

[Gloria K.]

Isn't he a beauty? He visits my pond every morning for at least an hour while I'm having coffee on the patio.

 

[j.w]

Very pretty Gloria

 

[callingcolleen1]

Well this thread was a good read, loved your good looking father Red, Very NICE pond lights JB!!!
That Mexican Sun flower was a real beauty JB, but all good thing must come to an end... Here too we had lots of pounding rain and ice cold water these days, so now my water lilly's are dying back, like our too short summer here...

 

[slakker]

This little guy came by to take a bath in the waterfall stream... I think it's a Canada warbler... so glad we put in the window so we can see our pond.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152274309271408

 

[Lisaebetten]

It's a chilly evening but I've got a couple night pics to share. My four big fish and few rosies. Trained my frog to smile! Last pic is my air stone that runs at night and it provides lots of bubbles there is another in my falls box that runs 24/7. Up and running for winter with landscaping for 2015.