Pond seasons

May 1996

July 1996
Pond home

Quick at bringing out new leaves, although they looked chewed-up for quite a while, until later nice full leaves appeared. Could the fish have been hungry? Dunno...

After being raised to a few inches below the water surface and after receiving a first dose of fertilizer ("lilytabs") it starts pushing a few tiny leaves towards the water surface...

Virginia

"white-pink" lotus

After a rather unhappy winter behind a basement window, it's recovering slowly. I pruned all the yellow leaves (about 50%!) and placed it into the pond after the (hopefully) last frost of the season.

The catalog promised a nice scent, and ideed, touching the plant is a pleasure. Also, it turns out to be great mint for cooking! But beware of the incredibly invasive roots...

... which probably isn't really bamboo. Lilypons sells it under that designation but really calls it Dulichium Arundinaceum. Note that real bamboo hates wet feet, yet they recommed a water depth of 0"-4". Oh well, I goofed when unpacking: it sat around in the plastic bags for too long and never recovered. Now that we have real bamboo, I'm not sure this was such a great loss...

The filter had to finally disappear! On the right, you can see the dark green plastic trash can (8 gal.) filled with lava rocks perched on a piece of air duct sheetmetal serving as my filter and water fountain!
Well, I finally got my act together and drilled a hole into the fence to be able to place the filter behind it. You see the result below: a copper pipe spews the water into the pond (you can also see the difference in wood ageing!). The photo on the bottom-right shows the green trashcan mounted behind the fence: barely visible even from the neighbor's perspective!