Water Gardening

Thanks all. We will be calling in on the way home, this Thursday. Cool box and towel is a good idea, hadn't thought of that ! Cheers for all the tips. Brian.

This is where I was up to with clearing the former filter room by 7.00pm last night.Early start this morning 10.00 am. It took me five trips to the tip to dispose of the tanks and filter medium.Then I started on tearing down this. It was substantially built as 300 gallons weighs...

That's now two lots in a couple of weeks.... I think we are being affected by engineering works they are doing on the stream. Half of our street, on the edge of farmland, is not connected to mains sewage. So we have septic tanks - no problem... ... but the government have decided that we all...

Thank you very much @Redwing; I have just ordered some hornwort and milfoil, plus some marestail as that looks so intriguing. And I'll do as you suggest and put all the Canadian pondweed in the compost bin!

Tends to be evergreen here, only ever known privet drop its leaves once or twice here. I do know evergreens do drop leaves, but I'd be very surprised if you were getting enough to poison a pond.

Hi All, I have a new water feature trough, I have a waterlily but its far too large variety and was thinking any one could suggest a reliable dwarf water lily ?Spruce

Thanks guys, it’s getting better that’s for sure! Rain water definitely helps, it is in quite an exposed position and obviously the majority of plants are young and or cut back for winter. It’ll be a case of wait and see and put a lot more plants in for the surface of the water. It’s getting...

Well, it's obviously a mature pond with masses of what looks like Flag Iris around it. Irises foliage will die back some during the Winter, but some will remain. It won't do any harm to the Iris to thin it out but unless you really want to tidy the pond up I wouldn't cut back the foliage...

I've been trying to get rid of water lilies for years.

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As far as surface cover goes, I have a Water Chestnut which has grown a lot of roots but little leaf growth and Water Soldier which has remained mainly submerged, the dwarf Water Lily has such small leaves as to not give much cover.

What are your plans for a pond/pool when it come time to upgrade....staying small or going large.

Brilliant! They look super. Will have a go at your idea if I add more plants to my barrel pond. You could go into business....

Oh bless darling how did you know

Well we had quite a job of it!! I was given a large Nymphaea Alba, the native one, by a friend. The root was about the size of a small beachball. We planted it in an old laundry basket. It was heavy as you can imagine. Next day after spending the night in the shallow parts of the pond this...

Thanks for your informative reply.This is what I thought. I was hoping that I would be able to cut corners with the lining. But didn’t really expect so.I plan on most of it being lawn and a small section flower bed. I realise that once eventually filled it will need a long time to settle...

They're all linked together, lucius, one follows after the other

It would seem extremely unlikely that a heron might have found an identical orfe to drop into the pond on the very next day after one actually died, and there didn`t seem to be any other fish disturbed or taken. No one else in the village kept golden orfe at the time, and no one had seen any...

I put the loosestrife in the pond on a shallow shelf and it looks to be doing ok so far.