Back in business
Posted by Anja on April 18, 2010 at 20:41 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 16:53
I got my outside day today. We used it to spring-clean the pond, give the fish a spa day and restart the filter and waterfall. I divided and repotted the papyrus and plunked it and the black taro back in their place.
The fish were hardly back in the pond when they started playing in the waterfall. It’s so nice to have it back. It’ll be my lullaby tonight.
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Posted by Anja on May 25, 2009 at 12:54 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:11Thursday they were all three still there, Friday I only saw two of them — Agent Orange, the bright orange one nowhere to be found. Yesterday we did the big spring cleaning of the pond and he’s definitely gone, not even a body is there. I’ve never seen a heron around, but that’s the only thing I can think of. Especially since they have lots of hiding places they can scoot to, but herons are patient.
We put all the tender plants and tropicals back in yesterday, so now more than half of the surface is covered, three days too late?
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Posted by Anja on May 23, 2009 at 11:55 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 17:08We came home with lots of goodies:
And afterwards we rested our sore feet at the Mexi’s and relaxed with Margaritas and a nice dinner.
That morning Monique had picked me up in the van to go to a couple of nurseries. I have all the pond plants, lots of annuals and a handful of perennials I always wanted. I’ll be a busy planter in the next couple of days. Tomorrow we’ll start with spring cleaning the pond.
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Posted by Anja on March 28, 2009 at 10:57 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 04:05Spring is here. The fish were out, and I sat by the pond and fed them a little bit of their spring food. They’re not very hungry yet, though. Might have something to do, too with an overabundance of algae in the pond. Smorgasboard.
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Snow
Posted by Anja on October 29, 2008 at 09:00 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 04:01Things change quickly, sometimes. Yesterday it was still fall, today it’s winter. I’m glad we finished all the clean-up.
Cut down all the perennials in the pond
Posted by Anja on October 19, 2008 at 16:58 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:59… and scooped out most of the floating plants. It’s cold in the mornings and frosty at night. The goldfish only come topside during midday, when the sun warms things up.
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Posted by Anja on October 18, 2008 at 23:57 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 17:06I’ve been uneasy about leaving the tropicals in the pond, but we hadn’t found just the right pots for them yet. Ceramic is too heavy when full of water and can leak; and all the nicest plastic pots have overflow holes. Useless for pond plants.
Last night they got a bit of frost burn, so I did some serious hunting today. I was ready to put them in buckets (which is not my preferred style in the living room, let me tell you), so we wouldn’t lose the plants, a nice Taro and a stunning Papyrus. But today I found a nice collection of over pots in all the right sizes, lightweight and, most importantly, watertight. They’re a very pale green sort of Terrazzo style, straight, no squiddlies or anything like that, and look unobtrusively nice, not plasticky at all. Me likes.
It’s now a bit crowded around the back door, and the pond looks strangely bare.
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Posted by Anja on October 14, 2008 at 16:55 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:57… and the first fallen leaves. All the minnows are scooped out and swimming happily in a tank in the basement. The goldfish are still out and about, doing their thing.
The floating plants are taking over the pond
Posted by Anja on September 6, 2008 at 14:52 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:55… which makes the fish happy. And us, too, because it takes care of the algae.
All’s lush
Posted by Anja on August 24, 2008 at 15:50 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:52We have two flowers. On the Pickerel Weed and the Arrowhead.
