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Pond Construction & Filtration / Re: Pond Tour For The Cure This Weekend

« on: November 08, 2012, 08:34:20 AM »

Annette, I apologize for the delay; I just found your post in my spam. No, I don't make the giant gunnera leaves, but I sell them for the person who does. Here's another picture taken just days ago. Waterlilies are still going strong in November -- very strange!

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Pond Construction & Filtration / Pond Tour For The Cure This Weekend

« on: October 17, 2012, 03:21:49 PM »

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The Poison Apple Garden renovation is finally done! The forest-themed pond garden at Humpty Dumpty House  features four ponds and a tadpole stream. The Poison Apple Pond and Pond Digger's Black Lagoon are watergarden style koi ponds connected by way of the Straights of Gibralter koi passage. The Mermaid Marsh, and the Taro-Gravel Filter Pond are picturesque watergardens meant to enhance our filtration. Everything is connected by a series of streams, waterfalls, and giant gunnera leaf spillways winding through lush vegetation, crossed by wooden bridges, and flanked with a forested seating terrace. Filtration includes a Sacramento Koi bead filter, Pond Digger's backflushable waterfall filter, and both veggie and anoxic filtration. An enormous Christine Curry mural serves as the backdrop.

I'd love to have everyone come join us this weekend during the "Pond Tour for the Cure", which benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, with some of the ticket sales going to Humpty Dumpty House's charitable projects. We're located near Redlands, California, and ours is one of the more modest stops on the pond tour. We'll be going until about midnight Friday and Saturday.

I'll be there to talk ponds and gardens with anyone who wants to chat. Tickets are $10 for adults; kids free, and can be purchased by posting here or PMing me. I hope to see some of you there.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Humpty Dumpty House Gardens

« on: April 04, 2011, 12:31:11 AM »

What a beautiful site and a great purpose!  My daughter, 23, has quadrapelic CP and confined to a chair, sure wish we werent on the opposite side of the country .. Great worl

tinkster

Thanks for your kind words, Tinkster; I love your gardens too, and wish I had your green thumb! If you and your daughter are ever in our area, I hope you'll visit.

Thank you for your generosity in providing Humpty Dumpty House with lotus tubers last year. Both the pads and blooms are at the top of my "favorites" list, and I can't wait to see how they've fared through our winter. If they make it, they'll be a gorgeous addition to the Poison Apple Pond Garden!

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Humpty Dumpty House Gardens

« on: April 02, 2011, 10:31:59 PM »

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Thanks for sharing. I loved all the pictures at your site.

Ponderville, I apologize for the delayed response; I've been recovering from a bad pneumonia and a few other nasties. Thank you for visiting our Facebook page, and for your kind words. We get a kick out of  creating unusual gardens, and love sharing what we've done.

Humpty Dumpty House still needs 1000 likes for a fundraising project, so I'll be very grateful to everyone who goes to the Humpty Dumpty House Foundation page on Facebook, and clicks "like" next to our name. While you're there, please enjoy pictures of our lovely ponds and gardens. Here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/HumptyDumptyHouse

Your simple "click" can provide what we need to help make a difference in the lives of people struggling to get back on their feet. Thank you for your help.

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Terrestrial Gardening / Humpty Dumpty House Gardens

« on: February 27, 2011, 10:06:24 AM »

Humpty Dumpty House is a series of unusual gardens, including The Food Court, Garden of Tears, and the Poison Apple Garden with its ponds, waterfalls, and streams.

Humpty Dumpty House Foundation needs 1000 "likes" on Facebook for a very special project. If you'd like to see lots of photos of the gardens, and help Humpty Dumpty House at the same time, please go to our Facebook page and click on the "thumbs up" to like us. Here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/HumptyDumptyHouse

Please spread the word, and thank you for your help!

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Plants for Humpty Dumpty House

« on: November 01, 2010, 01:53:27 PM »

A big thank you to Scott from SnL Aquatics for the lovely waterlilies:

http://www.snlaquatics.com/

The waterlilies were nicely packaged, big, well-developed plants from Hawaii, and amazingly the beautiful pads reached ponds surface in no time! We even had some fall buds and blooms:

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Tropical Lilies

« on: September 13, 2010, 01:01:09 PM »

Josh, I received the taros from my first order, and they're big, healthy plants with well-developed root systems. Thanks so much; I look forward to the next order.

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Plants for Humpty Dumpty House

« on: September 09, 2010, 02:41:26 PM »

Humpty Dumpty House is getting ready for the "Moonlight Pond Tour", and we're hoping to find the following plants:

Colocasia Diamond Head
Colocasia Mojito
Ruby Runner, Red Runner, or any other red alternanthera, aquatic or terrestrial
Water Hawthorne
Mosaic Plant
Any white night blooming waterlily
Any peach or white day blooming waterlily (eg: Colorado)
Bloody Dock (Rumex sanguineous)

If anyone has these plants for cheap, for postage, or for trade, please let me know.

Thank you.

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Pond Chat / Re: Do raccoons eat water hyacinths?

« on: October 18, 2009, 12:19:53 PM »

Does anyone here use a motion sensor scarecrow? Tons of cats and skunks, and a fair number of raccoons frequent my gardens, but the blasts of water from the scarecrow seem to keep these pesky critters at bay. So far so good for the plants and fish.

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: anyone want a huge colorado?????

« on: September 28, 2009, 09:08:31 AM »

We would LOVE to have a huge Colorado at Humpty Dumpty House! Please let me know how much and how to pay if you have them available!