Container pond fun, how's yours

[SueSTx]

Bob's bowl is cute...I like your terrace 

[marla]

nice containers, I was planing on doing some this year, have not gotten out my barrels and liners or my tropical plants this year yet.  You are lucky if your pickeral blooms all summer, takes mine forever to get going and once they bloom that is it, one time, then it is much colder here

[Jerry]

tub and tomatoes, not pretty but they seem happy.

[Vickie]

They all look very nice. I have not got mine set up yet. Too much to do.

[miguynmkoi]

Jonna, you spoil Bob royally!  Looks like you created a miniature tropical forest just for him.  I like the netted terrace location too!

All these container ponds look fabulous!  Great collection, Kat.  Keep on showing more for ideas I can copy. 

[Esther]

Bob the Beta  Jonna, we are just not imaginative when it comes to naming our pets. My kids had a Timmy the turtle a long time ago.

[Jonna]

   Worse than that Esther, this is Bob#2, Bob #1 is no longer with us.  Bob #2 used to live in the big pond outside but when we had to change the filter (he mainly stayed in the bog area) he had to go into the deep part of the pond with the Mollies and his tail started looking frazzled.  Bob #1 had passed on to the rice paddy in the sky so I caught the pond betta and put him upstairs where he became Bob#2.  His tail has grown back and he seems to be in good health, lonely though.  About once a month I put a mirror in there and let him pose for awhile and then pretend he chased the interloper away.  He seems to like his new decor, he built a big bubble nest today.  I rather doubt any fair maiden will swim by for him though.

[LynneNY]

A question about container plants for a few friends - what should they do with the lily plants they are having success with this year, when winter comes to their zones 6 and 5?  They will surely freeze if left in the 1/2 barrel containers, right?

[Esther]

Come to think of it, I guess I shouldn't answer because I also have a pond. I pull the plants out of the container and trim them waaay down and plunk them in the big pond for the winter.

[PondmaninAL]

Lynne, if there is no green house, they can trim them right back and store them in containers/kiddie pools inside the house.