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Pond Chat / Re: Pleas help ID this lily

« on: September 07, 2007, 06:55:10 PM »

Well, I thought this one was attraction... one of them is and one is not... but which ??

Myra

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Pond Chat / Pleas help ID this lily

« on: September 07, 2007, 05:07:32 PM »

This may be the first time for this lily to bloom.. every thing as been slow to bloom... I have been watching the bud for more than a day...the bud was fuller and rounder than the other buds... and this morning it was opened fully before 8:00 AM... none of the other blooms were open yet .. I thought this information might help with the ID ..

Myra

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Photo Album / Re: Our First Pond

« on: September 07, 2007, 04:39:02 PM »

Oh, I love it..    it's so seriene ? how ever you say that.... what is the vine or grow on the wall behind the pond ... looks neat .. like the way you have the flat rocks build up around the pond and the edging ... love seeing what others are doing with there ponds.

Myra

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Pond Chat / Plans for next year

« on: September 06, 2007, 08:12:49 PM »

Yes, the pond is never complete.  I wondered what are your plans for next year.  I am planning to rearrange the pond plants.  I moved a number of the land plants and I am very happy with that.  I plan to put the hibist in the water behind the larger waterfall maybe with a banana tree.  I want the dam beween the upper and lower pond to have plants on it but short plants so maybe I can see the water lilies from the house.  Hope to have the kiddie pond working before the year is over. Depending on how well that works will determine what new lilies I will try out here.  I was very happy with the potatoe vine on the smaller pond but in the long run I would like to have some thing that would be evergreen there one day. 

Myra     

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Pond Chat / Re: Pond heater ??

« on: September 06, 2007, 06:23:40 PM »

Thanks ya'll for the suggestions... I just got finished reading the post to Kim's thread on using heaters... I think I will price the water bed heaters and the aquarium heaters ... the winter here rarely gets below 20 degrees .. I am not sure witch of these would be better in a kiddie pond outside .. hummm, I thought this was going to be a really simple thing !!!  but I really want something that will keep the trops alive through the winter ... the god part is the winter here is only about 4 months or less ...

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: 2 nd immutabilis plant first bloom

« on: September 06, 2007, 05:09:55 AM »

Wow, that certainly stunning !!!!             


Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Pink Sunrise

« on: September 04, 2007, 03:55:09 PM »

Wow, very pretty.. it looks like a big bloom.... hummmmm, I might need one of those next year...   

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Some lilies

« on: September 04, 2007, 03:53:19 PM »

I used the regular house plant spikes.. they were sold out of the tomato spikes ... and I added the spikes every two weeks.... I did not get these till mid summer or later.. I had been  using wp ferterizer tabs but the water plant store was out of them this year and did not seem to be getting them in soon enought

Myra

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Pond Chat / Pond heater ??

« on: September 03, 2007, 07:28:49 PM »

Any one here use a heater in the pond or a kiddie pond to help over winter trops??  As I am in Louisiana I don't know if I need it but I want to do all that I can to have my water lilies survive the winter.  I would like to have them over winter outside too.  Is that to much to ask??

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Foxfire today...

« on: September 03, 2007, 03:37:58 PM »

drooling, drooling, drooling            

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Help what it this

« on: September 03, 2007, 04:47:32 AM »

Yes, I hope so...  miguynmkoi   

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Help what it this

« on: September 02, 2007, 08:10:27 PM »

Sean, you are so right about the LL...I am already over run... but I love the bloom color
now the other is a strange sight ... is this the only way this plant divides ?  the bloor is lovely also and a good bloomer too..  thanks for your input

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Help what it this

« on: September 02, 2007, 07:30:21 PM »

these are some pads that I got out of the pond today ... think they are all Lavender lace.. I am going to try and pot them up to go in the kiddie pool for the winter..

Myra

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Pond Chat / Help what it this

« on: September 02, 2007, 07:28:26 PM »

Why is this bloom looking like this ??

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Pond pics w new camera

« on: September 02, 2007, 06:33:46 PM »

Thanks Lawanna, as you are one of the ones that helped with plants to make it neat ..

mystic dragonfly, I would be glad to share some lilies with you in the spring.. I spent some time in the pond today pruning the pads... lavender lace is a vips and looks like I will have a lot of that lily to share .... it has been a very good bloomer for me .. and from what I could see there are a number of lilies that need to be devided too... I am trying to get an kiddie pond set up with a cold frame around it for the extra lilies to call home .. hopefully I can get it to work right..   

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Some lilies

« on: September 02, 2007, 05:57:24 AM »

Cath.. what do you use in your lilies?

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Some lilies

« on: September 01, 2007, 09:05:03 PM »

Oh, yes, yes and there you are... thanks again for the spikes...I was thinking today how I wish I had been better at having a journal when I started the pond with what plants I bought and from who..  I just hate it when I know I bought plants from some one but can't remember ... thank you

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: koi, pond pictures

« on: September 01, 2007, 12:19:42 PM »

Love your pond and rock work ... I am wondering why I don't have a strawberry jar ... Love all little frogs too... they have really out done themselves this year... I think they had two mating season this time... every time I walk around the pond there are 3 to 5 tiny, tiny little frogy with each step .. just saw the cat chasing a frog into the pond again... she gets so excited until she is in the pond... then she is mad .. saw her coming out wet..

Myra

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: Banana goes berserk in Skippy!

« on: September 01, 2007, 10:48:06 AM »

Hey, Jerry, who is that tall, dark and hansome man in the last pics... cute too..

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Pond pics w new camera

« on: September 01, 2007, 10:41:18 AM »

Thank ya'll ... the ponding season was very slow getting started for me this year what with all the rain and lower temps... then the pond store I generally buy ferterlizer tabs where out and very slow to get any in .. a lady on this site was kind enought to mail me some ferterlizer... next year I am going to be sure any buy a lot early ..  and I want to see your ponds... can't have to many pond pics on this site ... great to see what others are doing.. today I am trying to get a new kiddie pond together.. if all goes well, there will be pics tomorrow 

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Some lilies

« on: August 31, 2007, 09:03:54 PM »

hummmm, a few more 

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Pond Chat / Some lilies

« on: August 31, 2007, 09:01:28 PM »

I am going to try and post some lilies but after seeng Joey's they just will not be that bright..

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Pond pics w new camera

« on: August 31, 2007, 08:49:05 PM »

Here are a couple more of the lower pond   

Myra

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Pond Chat / Pond pics w new camera

« on: August 31, 2007, 08:41:40 PM »

I have been mad the past couple of weeks because the pond has had so many buds but do I get to see them .... no, I have to go to WORK... sorry for the bad four letter word... but I did get some pics today as I am off today for the holiday...   

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: A DIY bench, some hungry caterpillars, and blooms from Pamela and others

« on: August 31, 2007, 07:31:31 PM »

WoW, those lilies.... you should had a warning label on those ... I needed shades to look at them... they are powerfully pretty .... love the bench and the lotus pond, the rock work is excelent ..         

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Several blooms brightened my ponds over the past week...

« on: August 27, 2007, 07:33:49 PM »

Each bloom just gets better and better .. I can't pick the one I like best .. I will have to come back again and try               

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Lily Pics 8/26

« on: August 27, 2007, 07:30:31 PM »

Oh, WOW... I love the pics of the lilies .. and I was going to say I really like the SOS and the red spider... I hope my red spider does as well...... buttttt the last 3 pics of the Almost Black... oh, it just kills me...                 If mine does not bloom I think I will just have to buy another one... seems I remember the one I purchased was not all that large.. have to check next time I am in the pond....

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: I think I have to many plants (pics)

« on: August 27, 2007, 07:23:20 PM »

Thanks again...  I can say part of the reason my pond has so many plants is Lawanna and Kat.... I can't remember how many plants I have bought from them and others on this list ... We do have a local pond store but I think the best plants came from the people on this list.. 

 Four leaf clover is the hardest plant to contain 

Joey, I wish I had know that about the clover and the Bee Balm in my the yard.. the clover is all in the rocks at the edge of the pond.. I would have to take the rocks out to get all of the clover out

Yes, the water plants spread like weeds and in the past I have given away extra plants but I really don't know people in my area that have ponds... I did sell a few gf at the farmers market where I have a booth and sell scented soap and lotions.... I talked with a few people who had ponds or had plans of getting a pond in their yard.. and I offer to give them plants ... I would be glad to trade/give extras to others

This is just my 2 full year with this pond so I am just beginning to figure some of this out.. I hate to pull anything out.. in the winter the pond looks so sad ...  :'(   I can't imgine what it is like to be into ponding in the North .. I guess if I lived there I would adjust 

I do have a number of gf but would like to add some different fish next year but not Koi as I think they get to large for my pond

Myra       happy ponding

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Pond Chat / Re: Can you find the frog

« on: August 25, 2007, 10:59:33 AM »

Nice looking toad ... oh, I did have to put my glasses on to see him...

Myra

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Pond Chat / Re: Can you find the frog

« on: August 25, 2007, 10:29:42 AM »

Is he in the pot ??   

Myra