photos from the farm gardens

[Bartman]

First one is a lily I call "Bart's Crazy Red" 'cause I have no idea what it really is!  Quite small, perhaps 3" diameter at most.  First ones of the spring are quite pink then they get more red in colour as the summer marches on.  Usually has multiple blooms and does well in sun or shade parts of the pond.

Second lily is "Black Princess" which I really love.  Does best in the full sun.  Doesn't usually get more than one bloom at a time.

Third photo is looking across the pond to the water fall.

Bart

[Bartman]

First in this series is Gentiana dahurica which is an Alpine plant.  The deer ate most of them off this year   but a couple buds were left to bloom.  Good down to zone 2 and seeds itself everywhere which may be a bad thing later.

Next is the standard Tiger Lily which grows well here.  I have tried a white version of this, but they could never make it beyond the second year.

The third is a Sedum which I could not find the tag for.  I have it planted in a tiny amount of soil in an old piece of driftwood by the pond.  Comes back year after year.

Last is my Jack Manii Clematis.  I had two other planted with this one, but they seem to have died.  This one grows like a weed.

Bart

[small fish]

Wow, is that your pond and waterfalls?? I don't remember seeing your pond in the past.  My first reaction was, I needed to go right away and get a shove to dig a bigger pond.  I did get over that quickly.     The pond is so lovely.  Maybe I can come some times and camp on the shore some times.    Oh, and the lilies and other flower are great too.   

Myra

[lorraine1960]

WOW that is beautiful... .....and i want  a waterfall like that.........   lorraine

[miguynmkoi]

I like your waterfall too!  Nice plants, especially the blue alpine plant

[iriscottage]

gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bartman]

Thanks everyone.

It's not a big pond.  Probably 300 gallons at most.  Waterfall has had some issues with the rocks falling out from under the spill stone so that is fixed now using a styrofoam rock I made, some foam and some time to gather the algae!

Bart

[perplexed ponder]

Beautiful!
You made a rock from styrafoam? What did you do? Sounds so much easier than my fiberglass one, cheaper too!

[Bartman]

The rock was very simple.  I took 1" thick styrofoam and cut pieces to stack up to fill in the spot.  I then used silicone to glue the pieces together.  A day later I took spray foam and a bucket of sand and smeared it all over the creation.  This part didn't work as well because the spray foam didn't like to stick to the styrofoam, but with the same mixed in it gave it enough texture to be okay.  I then used the spray foam behind the "rock" to glue it into place.  I braced it into spot so as the foam expanded it wouldn't just push it out.  I left it sit for 24 hours then trimmed any spray foam that got out of control.  It was pretty much hidden with algae within a month of starting up the waterfall.  There is a small "rock" to the right of it that was made the same way and you probably can't even spot it.

Bart