Author Topic: Some of my ponds this year. (Read 2836 times)

Vickie · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2013, 08:17:06 AM »

bananas

Vickie · « **Reply #5 on:** July 29, 2013, 08:28:22 AM »

SueSTx · « **Reply #6 on:** July 29, 2013, 09:26:16 AM »

Everything looks wonderful Vickie

tootsie · « **Reply #7 on:** July 29, 2013, 11:58:34 AM »

Oh Vickie, I think I am Heaven!!!! What Beautiful, Wonderful Pictures!! I don't know how many I scrolled up and down to take in all of the beauty of, well, EVERYTHING:) Lots of effort and hard work for you to have such Beauty

Think I will just sell this house and find one around where you live

If it's alright with you, may I click and save all those pretty pictures? Thank You so very Much for sharing

Oh and your orange fish, what name are they? I lost all my Koi along time ago

Also ordered some pretty Koi from that Fosters and Smith, had them ship, twice now all Beautiful Koi were dead!! Not enough oxygen in the bags ;(

Vickie · « **Reply #8 on:** July 29, 2013, 01:23:54 PM »

tootsie I am so sorry you lost your fish. Fish arriving dead is terrible. My orange fish are goldfish muts. I have big koi in the pond with the banana trees behind it. The one that shows all the water lettuce and water hyicenths. Yes you can save the pictures. My husband is the one who does so much of this to help me. I could not do this without him. We are both retired so it is a wonderful hobby. I been doing this 28 years. I started in 1985 with 3 hardy lilies and a cow tank. In 2000 I met fernlady and she sent me 2 tropical water lilies. Well that was it for me. Obsession hit me. LOL!

Vickie · « **Reply #9 on:** July 29, 2013, 01:28:54 PM »

Vickie · « **Reply #10 on:** July 29, 2013, 01:41:02 PM »

Kittyzee · « **Reply #11 on:** July 29, 2013, 04:39:50 PM »

Wow Vickie!! Everything is gorgeous! Don't give Vickie a container that holds water--she will make a garden out of it!

Are your bananas hardy? I would like to try them, but not if I have to dig them up each fall. Would I ever like to just sit and talk with you about your plants, and fish and gardens....

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #12 on:** July 29, 2013, 05:20:08 PM »

A veritable ponder's paradise!! You're lucky to have your DH help....you've put a lot of work into all your ponds and plants!

Is that a variegated papyrus? It's gorgeous!

Vickie · « **Reply #13 on:** July 29, 2013, 06:25:26 PM »

kittyzee all bananas planted in the ground are hardy. Others that are not are in pots. I have more tubs not pictured. I have mosquito fish in every pond and tub. And a couple more smaller ponds, and 2 more kiddy ponds. We just bought a 5ft x 14ft fiberglass container to make a pond to replace 2 kiddy ponds. Yes it is a variegated papyrus I have wanted one for years.

Vickie · « **Reply #14 on:** July 29, 2013, 06:30:26 PM »

if you look close you can see water bananas in this pond towards the back with the other smaller bananas

Marie Fisher · « **Reply #15 on:** July 29, 2013, 08:32:21 PM »

everything is so lush and clean looking. Beautiful.

Marie

Vickie · « **Reply #16 on:** July 30, 2013, 06:28:25 AM »

Thanks everyone

Vickie · « **Reply #17 on:** July 30, 2013, 06:38:33 AM »

Vickie · « **Reply #18 on:** July 30, 2013, 06:43:33 AM »

Here is the fiberglass tub that will be a new pond. It was a bargain I could not pass up. It is 5 ft x 14 ft. The liner that is going to go in it I traded for waterlilies. My husband is going to frame it for support. This will be interesting.

Kittyzee · « **Reply #19 on:** July 30, 2013, 06:44:56 AM »

I swear Vickie, you have more plant specimens that most garden centers/water garden stores! And I mean it when I say I'd love to just sit and pick your brain about plants/water gardens! Everything looks just beautiful and I know how much work it takes to keep it looking that way. I think you just may be the QUEEN!!!

Vickie · « **Reply #20 on:** July 30, 2013, 08:04:02 AM »

Thanks! I know Fernlady is the Lily Queen. I just have a lot of other water garden plants.

SueSTx · « **Reply #21 on:** July 30, 2013, 08:15:30 AM »

That's a nice tub and 5' is such an easy width to keep things 'pinched'. Great find.

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #22 on:** July 30, 2013, 09:38:37 AM »

I also have to say you have the best well behaved water lettuce I've seen. Mine got so ugly (each individual plant) and over-sized I don't grow them now.

The new tub is great! Was it once a van top?

Vickie · « **Reply #23 on:** July 30, 2013, 09:41:58 AM »

We think it is for a van conversion. It is new though, never been used a friend bought it at an auction and sold it to me for $50 including delivery. What a steal. LOL! If it holds water here it is a water garden. LOL!

SueSTx · « **Reply #24 on:** July 30, 2013, 10:04:38 AM »

And a liner will make just about anything hold water...

I once had a lily and fish in a Rubbermaid cart lined with a plastic tarp. I added a fountain pump and a DYI filter. I raised my first ever fry and tadpoles in that cart.

Bob_A · « **Reply #25 on:** July 30, 2013, 12:21:26 PM »

Very nice, Vickie.

bunny56lbc · « **Reply #26 on:** July 30, 2013, 05:33:41 PM »

WOW Vickie ,so many beautiful ponds with nice healthy plants !

bonnie

Pam · « **Reply #27 on:** July 31, 2013, 07:44:56 PM »

Oh, so much to see and all of it beautiful! I grow lots of cannas and never thought of trying them in water! I love the water lettuce and hyacinth, those are forbidden here :-) Where did you get the variegated papyrus?

Vickie · « **Reply #28 on:** July 31, 2013, 08:19:52 PM »

Pam you have to get cannas use to water slowly. Not just plunge them in water all at once .You put them in a saucer of water and over time raise the water level slowly. There are true water cannas they are Longwood cannas. I did the same thing with banana plants. Here is a pic of a water banana.

Vickie · « **Reply #29 on:** July 31, 2013, 08:26:32 PM »

This one I started in water myself in 2008. These water bananas winter over in my basment in water all winter.