This is where frogs go on vacation
Posted by Anja on July 25, 2008 at 15:48 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:50At last count we had sixteen in and around the pond.
All new plants are potted and daylilies are blooming.
Some more pictures
Posted by Anja on July 20, 2008 at 14:46 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:48The woodlands view from the top of the waterfall:
We has a flower (water hyacinth).
Update
Posted by Anja on July 19, 2008 at 15:44 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:46Plan B on the prowl through the reeds:
We bought new water plants, which have to be properly potted up now:
Finally! New pics!!!
Posted by Anja on June 19, 2008 at 16:42 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:43The pinks are in full bloom, the daylilies bushy and the berm’s filling up.
We recently added 10 White Cloud Mountain Minnows, very tiny. They get chased by the goldfish quite a bit. I hope they don’t get eaten. They won’t be able to overwinter outside, but will have to come inside when it gets cold.
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Posted by Anja on May 5, 2008 at 16:41 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:42The reeds and rushes are coming back nicely, the daylilies are a good 10 inches high, and I started planting the berm. There’s a new bleeding heart (alba) and two nice ferns. Alas, alas, I can’t take any pics, cause the camera broke.
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Posted by Anja on April 23, 2008 at 10:35 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 17:04It’s a wonderful feeling to see all three of the goldfish back? They even grew a bit, I think (about finger length), but they’re certainly ravenous. We had a bunch of algae in the pond, and even though we took some out, they did quite a job in getting rid of the rest. I started feeding them again two days ago. One of them, unfortunately came through the winter with a bit of tail rot, but he seems perky otherwise, and I’m only treating with Mela- and Pimafix. Hope it gets better.
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Posted by Anja on April 6, 2008 at 18:41 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:40It’s slowly getting a little warmer. A lot of the snow has melted over the last week.
We’ve on and off seen the two orange of our goldfish over the past couple of days, but today we were finally able to ascertain that all three of them are in fact alive and well and happily nibbling on the algae that the longer days bring to our ponds. (Man, there’s a lot of those.)
In case you’re wondering why there are no new pictures
Posted by Anja on March 31, 2008 at 09:37 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:38It’s because there’s still not much to see but a big heap of snow with a hole in the middle. Aaah, the glories of spring in Ontario. As you can see, though, the top of the chain-link fence in the background is peeking out again, so it must be melting.
After the big one
Posted by Anja on March 9, 2008 at 08:35 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:36A blizzard dumped roughly half a meter of snow on us since Saturday morning; not only the pond is gone, but so is the fence on the left and half of the lilac. To say nothing of the neighbour’s tool shed.
The first snowstorm of the new year …
Posted by Anja on February 2, 2008 at 09:34 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:35… has returned things to a more seasonal state.
