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Offline MikeW

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Entering final ponding month (photos)
« on: October 20, 2006, 03:03:00 PM »
Far fewer blooms these days, but I generally have some colour in the pond into earky December. Awesome weekend upon us now (even by So. Cal. standards), so time to play outside, or just while away the time pottering around.

Fisrt pic is coming up my back steps. Pond is the second elevation you see, above the "sun" hanging on the wall.
Second is Sandra Lynn
Third is a sunny, washed out view, but even one last hardy in bloom, which is late for them.

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2006, 03:27:20 PM »
Gee Mike, I don't think you have enough lilies in that pond . . . . . The ones you have are gorgeous tho!
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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2006, 06:06:14 PM »
Great looking pics Mike. I am not sure I recognize that lily in the second pic. I would have had blooms unitl mid November but I had an emergency with ,y lily pond and had to empty it today. I hauled a pick up truck load of lilies to lawanna.
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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2006, 08:17:11 PM »
Beautiful!  I love all the lillies.. I am confused.. your thingy says your in africa but you mention ca?

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2006, 09:08:02 PM »
Quote from: Teresa on October 20, 2006, 03:27:20 PM
Gee Mike, I don't think you have enough lilies in that pond . . . . . The ones you have are gorgeous tho!
:o

Your pond looks Great Mike ! @O@

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2006, 08:24:10 AM »
Hi Tink -
Just messing with the flag toy. I live in Los Angeles, but am from South Africa. There are so many US and Canadian flags on the forum, thought I'd add some more colour.

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2006, 10:51:56 AM »
Lovely pond and yard!!!  Final ponding month?  I would think you would be going year round in LA  :o
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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2006, 02:29:53 PM »
I have surely tried. Working with Sean, who was way more determined than I, we came up with several options to keep the water close to 70F. Each had it's advantages, but all fell down on the fact that it was going to be a HUGE amount of cash each winter to keep 3,400 gallons that warm.

Southern California is generally always comfortable, but not always warm. I know it seems like a joke to the rest of the country when our winter nights plummet to 40F for a few weeks - but that is enough to make the pond water too cold to allow the tropicals to bloom all the way through.

I have resigned myself to tropical pond / reflecting pool depending on the season.

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2006, 03:57:39 PM »
Hi Mike:

Too bad I didn't have much time in Pasedena I would have loved to see a few more blooms before the season ends!  You should try the steam pipes similar to Longwood.  Perhaps a solar heater, you guys still get a lot of sun even during your outright frigid winter, LOL.

Cheers,

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2006, 04:17:14 PM »
Gary - If Sean had had his way, there would have been black hoses over my gazebo. and black rubber 'lungs' on my roof supplying warm water to my pond. (This was the fall back position from a spa heater in a huge tower next to the waterfall). In Sean's life, it is not the aesthetics, but the lilies that count.

Now the solar idea also requires major unsightly stuff in the garden - Why can't I just have everything, all the time, without having to ask for it - is that not the main reason we pay California taxes?

I want it all, and I want it now!

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2006, 12:20:04 AM »
We put the black sheets of hose up on the roof at our old house in Marin County, north of San Francisco, and it kept the swimming pool warm enough to swim for all but a couple months a year.  It was a lot colder up there than in LA, we even had frosts!!  You couldn't see it as it was on the cottage roof, don't know what your roof looks like,  this one was flat so it worked.
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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2006, 07:58:17 AM »
Mike W, beautiful pictures. I love the first one, what a lovely perspective.
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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2006, 12:15:11 PM »
I just love your yard Mike!  I can hardly wait until I can get back down to LA again.  Hopefully sooner than later and we'll be able to get together again for some laughs.

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2006, 12:53:28 PM »
If I had my way, Mike would have no grass in his yard at all and there would be a solar collector on his roof that works for both heating water and for electricity.

I am glad I have had an opportunity to assist Mike with the design and plant selection for his gardens but much of what is there is of his own selection. Mike gives away too much credit for the way his yard is coming along.

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2006, 04:27:10 PM »
Love your pond.  It is so interesting seeing how everyone "fits" a pond into their particular landscape.
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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2006, 07:44:12 PM »
hello mike,
i have always admired your pond and its design, and your plants, and your weather and your location.
i like it all :)

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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2006, 04:32:08 AM »
It looks wonderful Mike with all those gorgeous lilies. (three thumbs up here!)
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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #17 on: October 27, 2006, 08:33:34 AM »
Wonderful it is.  A little paradise just minutes from a giant metroplolis. O0 O0
I am woith you on the solar heaters. If only they weren't so ugly. {nono}
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Re: Entering final ponding month (photos)
« Reply #18 on: October 27, 2006, 03:05:21 PM »
Looking Good!  If this warm weather keeps up you may have blossoms well into December O0
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