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Pond Chat / Re: Pond is foaming

« on: May 13, 2016, 08:55:11 PM »

Post pics if you have little babies!

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: It Has Been Awhile

« on: May 06, 2016, 11:59:03 AM »

Huge thanks to Pete!  I am no longer in search of a Mayla or King of Siam. 

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / It Has Been Awhile

« on: April 15, 2016, 08:00:40 PM »

It's been awhile since I've last traded or purchased any plants from fellow members.  I do know every time I would purchase or trade, the people were awesome and the transactions were very easy.  Now that my pond is up and established, I'm looking for a few specific lilies.  Here's what I'm interested in:  Mayla (hardy), King of Siam and Pink Pearl

I'll have the following to trade in a week or so: Wanvisa(hardy), Miami Rose and Islamaroda

I'm also up for purchasing the plants I'm interested in.  PM me and we can chat.  Looking forward to a new ponding season!

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Pond Chat / Re: Today's hardy pics 7-7-15

« on: July 09, 2015, 10:33:11 PM »

Looks like they work very well.  I use tomato spikes.  Never tried the pond tabs.  Hmm

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Pond Chat / Re: Today's tropical lily pics 7-9-15

« on: July 09, 2015, 10:31:17 PM »

If I had to choose a favorite, it would be the Avalanche 

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Pond Chat / Re: Today's hardy pics 7-7-15

« on: July 09, 2015, 09:21:49 AM »

Very pretty!  What do you use to fertilize your plants?

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Pond Chat / Re: Lotus Buds

« on: July 06, 2015, 09:26:09 PM »

Lucky  I can never get a lotus to bloom.  I gave up the good fight years ago.  This new pond will event have enough shade and I'll give it another shot.

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Pond Chat / Re: More Hardy blooms

« on: July 06, 2015, 09:22:11 PM »

I really like the lemon. It has a real yellow pastel color to it.  I wonder if it taste as good as it looks ????

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Pond Chat / Re: It's been awhile

« on: June 27, 2015, 11:16:09 PM »

Jerry- I don't know how the pic ended up stretched that way.

Green- I'm starting from scratch.  I found a couple of local ponders and bought a few plants from them.  I really would like a Mayla 

Thanks everyone for the support!  It's good to be back in the pond of things!

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Pond Chat / Re: It's been awhile

« on: June 25, 2015, 09:12:03 PM »

It was a team effort

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Pond Chat / Re: It's been awhile

« on: June 25, 2015, 09:05:27 PM »

Final product

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: waterlilies and lotus for trade or sale

« on: June 19, 2015, 06:43:40 PM »

Not sure if it's too late, but do you have any Mayla available?

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Pond Chat / Re: Pond and home valuue

« on: June 19, 2015, 06:41:27 PM »

I agree.  Some may see a pond as extra work, but are uninformed.  For me, it was either a pond or a pool.  I obviously chose a pond.

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Pond Chat / Re: It's been awhile (new pond pics)

« on: June 17, 2015, 09:36:59 AM »

Here's the final day of rocks!  Thank goodness

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Pond Chat / It's been awhile

« on: June 16, 2015, 10:18:44 PM »

Hi everyone!  I used to frequently chat and partake in the forum years ago.  It all was put on hold when I sold my house with the pond pictured in my profile.  Long story short, I bought a new house with a large backyard.  Knowing that I would build a pond, I saved a pretty good space for it.  I'll upload pics as I progress.  Here's one of today's work.  These boulders are going to be the end of me.  One more trip to the rock hard should do it.  I'll then connect the pump to the filter.  The filter is a Hayward filter that I'm converting using bio balls and filter media.  Can't wait to finish this, but I've learned to be patient in building ponds so that everything looks to my liking.

Edit: I'm not able to upload pics from my phone.  Says pics exceed the limit ????
Edit: I email the pic to my own email.  Prior to sending I'm prompted to choose the size of the pic.  Saved the smaller pic to my phone.

It's good to be back!

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Pond Chat / Re: World's First Purple Hardy (ISG) revealed.

« on: August 11, 2010, 05:47:58 PM »

WOW.  Way to go, Mike.  That is truly amazing.  I had to show my wife. 

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Pond Chat / Re: Some blooms in the pond today

« on: August 11, 2010, 05:44:10 PM »

I've seen many pictures you've taken and these are just as top notch.  Beautiful. 

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Pond Chat / Re: lilies are burning here

« on: July 15, 2010, 02:23:38 PM »

Everything is burning here in AZ.  The banana tree by my pond is toast. 

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Pond Chat / Re: My Victoria longwood's leaves are turning up

« on: July 15, 2010, 02:22:30 PM »

Pretty cool.  How many leaves?  Any buds? 

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Pond Chat / Re: Firekracker

« on: July 13, 2010, 10:27:00 PM »

I like that.  Looks unique and like a firecracker. 

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Pond Chat / Re: What is the highest "water" temperature, tropical w.liliy tubers can tolarate?

« on: July 07, 2010, 04:57:00 PM »

When I first began water gardening, I used a large tub of water to place a couple of hardy water lilies.  The summer temps ran up to 110+ that year.  They didn't survive the heat.  I need to have the water circulating in order to keep the water temps down.  Hope that helps. 

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Pond Chat / Re: Pictures: Lynn Ellen, Avalanche, Bull's Eye

« on: June 16, 2010, 06:44:56 PM »

You take better pictures with your phone than I with a digital camera.

I love that Avalanche.  The soft blue gives me goosebumps.  I'll add that to my wish list. 

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Pond Chat / Re: The king

« on: June 16, 2010, 06:43:14 PM »

Gotta love the king.  I received a tuber a few months ago.  I'm still waiting on a bloom or two. 

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Pond Chat / Re: How weird is this??

« on: June 16, 2010, 06:41:21 PM »

That is pretty odd.  I've never seen that from any of my hardies. 

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Pond Chat / Re: Blooming Pond Plants.. Whats yours???... Waterfall pics and koi

« on: June 03, 2010, 11:30:26 PM »

That first picture should be a postcard.  You can make it into a Christmas or birthday card and send it out to each member.  I like the purple pickerel and the pink cups. 

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Pond Chat / Re: And so it begins! (more pics added)

« on: May 31, 2010, 08:56:46 PM »

Whoa, that's a huge hole.  I can't wait to see the final product.  Thanks for keeping us posted.   

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Pond Chat / Re: Hibiscus 'Pond Scum'

« on: May 28, 2010, 05:17:18 PM »

That's the color of my pond water. 

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Pond Chat / Re: BBC Article, Utopia Aquatic posted this on Facebook...

« on: May 27, 2010, 10:00:25 PM »

Good article.  It's amazing how certain things, as water gardening, doesn't require a degree.  Botany is something that can be appreciated and practiced by anyone.  More detailed work is left to the experts.   

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Pond Chat / Re: too many plants?

« on: May 26, 2010, 07:53:41 AM »

I've learned from Lawanna to keep some extra change in my paypal account strictly for plants.  That way I can write it off, with my wife, as a trade.  No harm there.   

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Pond Chat / Re: Around the pond and yard. Photo Intense....

« on: May 23, 2010, 10:34:58 PM »

I've been a member of the Tinkster's Pond Fan Club for about 3 years now.  Still going strong.