18°C – sun and scattered showers
Posted by Anja on May 5, 2010 at 16:39 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 16:35Things are humming blooming and popping open everywhere. It’s a joy to run around outside with or without the camera. Last weekend I finally got rid of the ugly plastic planters in front of the house and replaced one with the tub I had the pond lily in last year.
The lily unfortunately didn’t make it through the winter, so I potted up some of the papyrus divisions and one of my peace lilies in there and today added the baby minnows, who were rapidly outgrowing their refuge in the snail tank.
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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 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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