Author Topic: Container pond fun, how's yours (Read 11553 times)

Esther · « **Reply #60 on:** May 28, 2010, 10:25:11 AM »

That is not funky. I think it is cute. Must be pretty much in the shade. I remember your old pondsai and it always did well.

LynneNY · « **Reply #61 on:** May 28, 2010, 07:42:22 PM »

Very cool Joyce! I like "different" things in the yard - makes it so personal and homey.

Joyce · « **Reply #62 on:** May 28, 2010, 08:29:48 PM »

Thanks Lynne!

matherfish · « **Reply #63 on:** May 28, 2010, 08:58:02 PM »

Esther, that is a good looking pond! I have to laugh at myself because when you said you had your first blossom I looked at the pic and saw the bud. I thought that was what you were talking about. Then when I looked at the pic a few seconds later, I saw the pink lily bloom.

Very nice set-up.

Esther · « **Reply #64 on:** May 29, 2010, 07:30:56 AM »

I think that one is a mini. When I saw it beginning to bud I took it out of the big pond and put it there so it would see the sun sooner/longer and bring out the flower sooner. It has two today. It's sister plant was also in the big pond so I put it in the little pond to give some color to it.

Jerry · « **Reply #65 on:** May 29, 2010, 08:17:42 AM »

How do you keep the water in a tub clear?

SueSTx · « **Reply #66 on:** May 29, 2010, 10:02:32 AM »

I don't have many blooms yet...but they are getting there.

OK so they are BIG containers!

The farthurest tank is just full of junk. If I can talk DH into helping me haul it off...I have another kiddie pool in a box and lilies on order. Do you think 6 big tanks and 2 little ones would be too much?

I had a friend ask the other night if I had too many yet.

Esther · « **Reply #67 on:** May 29, 2010, 10:30:02 AM »

Never too many if there is flat ground yet huh? Not many huh?? How many is enough?
Jerry, I don't do anything to keep them clear. They just do.

HOWELL · « **Reply #68 on:** May 29, 2010, 11:22:59 AM »

Well those tanks are beautiful...Sue.
Ok, you said I still have not that many in blooms...and I am like wow so many blooms...

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My JB is stupid, does not wanna grow...

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PondmaninAL · « **Reply #69 on:** May 29, 2010, 01:40:12 PM »

I'm beginning to wonder if SueSTx wasn't my inspiration for my ponds.

Jerry · « **Reply #70 on:** May 29, 2010, 01:50:45 PM »

I know i have seen many clear ones. That's what is perplexing.
Sue, that is one nice set up.

SueSTx · « **Reply #71 on:** May 29, 2010, 02:14:20 PM »

Thanks Jerry...

It just kinda "goes with" THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Jerry · « **Reply #72 on:** May 31, 2010, 07:42:05 AM »

Is the windmill an ornamenal one, or is it the real thing? If it is real, what does it do?
I have fake one. Besides here in So Cal we do NOT have the rights to the water.

Esther · « **Reply #73 on:** May 31, 2010, 09:02:53 AM »

So Jerry, you couldn't legally put down a well on your property? We have put a well down by hand here a long time ago by just pounding down a pipe. We watered a garden with it many years ago but took it out eventually. Yes, we were lucky to find the water so shallow. But we knew there were several tiny springs around here that run all the time.
Also when they reshaped the pool about 30 years ago, they had to lower the diving bowl 12" because specification had been changed since the pool was first built. They hit water when putting in the bottom drain and had to put a pipe and pump in to gently pull out the water so they could complete the job. They also put in a hydrostatic valve in case the water pressure underneath became greater than in the pool so it would open and let the water in the pool and not push up the liner. They cemented about 3/4 of that bowl to hold the sand because the water kept, pulling the sand out of shape.

But oddly enough, our ground is dry, dry, dry, and there are two bowl shaped gullies at the back of our property and the neighbors that are deeper than the pool and they also are bone dry.

Junie · « **Reply #74 on:** May 31, 2010, 10:47:08 AM »

Today here is what I found in my barrel.

Tiny but pretty....

Esther · « **Reply #75 on:** May 31, 2010, 12:03:26 PM »

Awwwww. We don't care what size. I built the little pond to put minis in.

SueSTx · « **Reply #76 on:** May 31, 2010, 12:51:11 PM »

Jerry, the windmill is strickly ornamental. Our community owns its own water system and as of about 5 years ago, we all had to sign an agreement that we wouldn't drill our own wells so we would qualify for a grant for a new well. That well was over 400 foot deep. No pounding of pipes around here.

LynneNY · « **Reply #77 on:** June 03, 2010, 02:44:50 PM »

Quote from: Rad Michelle on May 20, 2010, 08:56:53 PM

That's a good size plant bet you'll see blooms within a week or two, the flowering stalk emerges from the stalk of another leaf so if you notice any fatter stems it won't be long before the flower shoots up

WOW you are good Michelle!!!

Fourteen days after I posted and I just saw about 6 buds on the pickerels - 2 are about to come into bloom! So exciting!

Rad Michelle · « **Reply #78 on:** June 03, 2010, 08:21:30 PM »

how fun!!!!! we dont believe you without pictures. and guess what i got my computer back FINALLY! SO I will be having boats full of photos to share... as usual. i find i am an obsessive visual person

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #79 on:** June 03, 2010, 08:28:21 PM »

Finally got you back up!

We're waiting for a big shower of pics, Michelle!

Rad Michelle · « **Reply #80 on:** June 05, 2010, 01:24:02 PM »

just an update, talk about overgrowth haha.

here is the first day set up, the leaves havent reached the surface (evidence during my move that my water levels were low cuz i was neglectful

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inbetween with a flower

here is yesterday

ThornyGardener · « **Reply #81 on:** June 05, 2010, 05:06:37 PM »

Very nice

Who's gonna win the turf war, your lily pads or the water lettuce?

(These pics show why one should err towards underestimating how many floaters one should get. Note the three little water lettuce in pic 1 and how they quickly multiplied by pic 2.)

PondmaninAL · « **Reply #82 on:** June 05, 2010, 05:38:42 PM »

Michelle, if you don't get a place to settle soon, you will be up to containers as big as mine.

Rad Michelle · « **Reply #83 on:** June 05, 2010, 10:39:56 PM »

very good point thorny! invasive means... EXACTLY THAT.

hey now i happen to like your containers scott! plus... im really indecisive... so at least if i dont like the pond on the left side of the yard anymore.. move her over to the right. haha. but yeah. one day.. when i learn not to kill fish (hopefully sooooon because i really want watonai) ill get an inground

Kat · « **Reply #84 on:** June 06, 2010, 06:54:31 AM »

Looking good everyone

Here is a "patio pond package" I'm offering on Craigslist.

SueSTx · « **Reply #85 on:** June 06, 2010, 09:27:02 AM »

Michelle, your continers are looking good

Nice package there Kat

Joyce · « **Reply #86 on:** June 06, 2010, 06:35:25 PM »

Here's a few I took this morning...
A grouping of containers...

'Bog Frog' with Baldellia ranunculoides in bloom. Bog Frog is about 18" frog nose to froggy butt.

Helvola in a wine barrel

Another view...

This is my Nymphaea pygmaea pot I started from seed April 2009, but I also threw a tiny piece of a NOID lily I found floating in the big pond last Fall, and there is also one N. pygmaea seedling that has burgundy pads. (right next to the NOID) I gotta separate all these ASAP.

Another bog pot with Mini Black Magic Taro (tops off at 12-18" high, right now it's a 2" plug baby) and the mini rush 'Steppable' called Eleocharis radicans.
This Mini Rush gets 2" tall when full grown and always looks neat. It's a groundcover for sure and gets little fiber optic type blooms at the tips like many of the rushes do. I think this combo looks very 'neat' together in both texture and stature.

The rush will look like a neatly clipped lawn once it fills in. Antique glazed pot is 12" wide.

tinkster · « **Reply #87 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:23:43 PM »

question for yall doing the containers.. but in particular to joyce who I am pretty sure has a bunch of water containers. I havent planted any of mine this year because all I was doing was watering and watering. It was a daily chore. How do yall keep up with all the watering?

Tink

Joyce · « **Reply #88 on:** June 06, 2010, 07:28:49 PM »

Our sprinkler system tops off ours every other night.
But between my dh and I, we top them off a few times a week too.

Jonna · « **Reply #89 on:** June 07, 2010, 09:27:36 PM »

I redecorated Bob the Betta's home today. It had some grasses and trailing plants around it before but they were looking burnt. In the summer, the patio outside our bedroom where Bob lives gets direct sun for several hours a day. He's under a palm tree but it is very bright shade and some early morning direct sun on one side of his bowl. We'll see how these plants do and if I have to switch them again in the winter when it gets very little direct sun.

Here's Bob and some aquarium plant that I put inside. I can't remember the name. I got it when I was going to try and have a planted tank look in my inside pond but it never did well in the low light. I put it out on the roof in the pond for the last few months and it has gotten huge. So, I pulled off a piece for Bob's house, hopefully it will grow there. He likes it, he spent quite some time swimming back and forth through the leaves today. He has a piece of old wood and several caves he can hide in when he wants, sometimes the dogs drink from his house - I try and discourage it - so he likes having a place to get out of the way.

His bowl is on a small walled terrace that is open to the bedroom and bathroom and the sky - except there is screening on the roof to keep the bugs out.