tenuki, miguynmkoi, thanks for the compliments on the lily pond, this is the newest of the ponds, still some landscaping to do, an always ongoing projet.
Everyone, thanks for your sympathies on the koi, still feel bad, but that is what happens when we become attached to the living things we care for. If it would have died over the winter under the ice that could have been a worse case for the other fish then possible pox.
Mikey
too funny!!
Glad we got the tree down Sat. because Sun was soooo windy all the leaves would have for sure been in the pond, as it is most of the neighbors tree leaves came over here.
clm, Russian Olives are messy with those little leaves, the MIL had one. DH cut down a large Maple by the koi pond a few years ago (it had a bad split at the fork and we were counting the days before it would crack to the ground anyway) We put in 2 14'-16' white spruces, they have now started to grow much better this year, not the same kind of shade but look very nice.
Esther, we knew when we put the pond here there was a potential problem for the future, just was not expecting the tree to take off and fill out so quickly, we also had a dwarf peach tree on the same side of the pond more towards the middle, last year it was so full of peaches(first year to bear fruit) the branches were hanging in the pond, DH was going to transplant it last fall and as he wiggled it to loosen the root ball a bit it snapped at the graf, he was really PO'd as he had been digging for quite some time. Missed the peaches this year, but still have some canned ones for the winter yet. This is a picture of it after I had picked off about 50% of the peaches