Water Gardening

My experience of pond lilies is limited to one pond, and fishing canals ! However, remembering that they will be dying back now for winter and that the existing stems relate to the depth of the water they were previously in, I would wait until Spring to set them in place .They will grow new...

Lovely memories there,

@fairygirl at least Hyacinth and Hawthorn both start with H I like that Cotton grass. I need something tall in my new little pond. I'd usually use the Cyperus but lost that last year. Good for the Damsels as you say.

How the pond has changed in such a short time! It is now an ornamental fish pond (our goldfish had lots of babies this year)And so we have created a new, separate pond for the wildlife (we found three frogs in the garden whilst working on the ponds). We also found several dragonfly nymphs! ...

Oh OK,yes see your point.

There will be some good ideas on utube.

Interesting about the leeches. I'm afraid I don't look that closely at the goings on in the bottom of my ponds! I agree that you just need to be patient, and constantly footering with the bottom layer etc is counter productive. Certainly -changing the entire contents, especially the water, is a...

I like them. If you like them and they do what you want them to do, without causing problems for others, that is all that matters.

I'm not in the slightest bit envious . It looks just stunning , well done on all your hard work.

You do not say how deep you would "like" your pond to be. 2ft., is very shallow allowing for evaporation and freezing. You would need to grow pygmy waterlilies if they are on your plant list. I think I would just go for it, despite the water level, it will be hard work and messy, but dig out the...

I think if it sinks it dies, so near the surface attached to weed mostly in my pond. I have a separate tank for frogspawn as the fish eat them in my main pond.

lol looks like it can be both ..I still say a marginal plant

Sorry for the delay getting back.I've had frog spawn both at the surface and deep down in the bottom of the pond (Nearly a metre deep at the deepest).This clump was about 2ft below the surface before it started to look odd and rose to the surface whilst frothing up. It is a sticky mess, or...

Only for so long even then. 'Our' agrilac was 2m deep when it was dug out 30 years ago. The surrounding poplar trees have shed into it and now there's only 60cm of water above the sludge.

No you were not preaching! It is good to make others aware of spreading disease.

I have a single Golden Orfe in my small pond. I bought it as a Golden Tench but a 2" orfe looks remarkably like a 2" tench!! It was not until the following year that I realised the mistake as the orfe got big quickly. It seems happy even though they are supposed to like open water and live in...

Blimey!

I think the main thing there is, "many years ago".I had a goldfish in a bowl when I was a kid, wouldn't do that now, I know better.

I can stop scratching that itch ! I have a compost heap but don't think it is very warm as it is just an open heap. I have never seen anything wiggly leaving it when I have started using it. I always had slow worms in the compost heap in my previous garden but they never bothered me.

I can't remember about the hornwort, but I think mine came with the weights as described by Most of the pond suppliers's sites will give you the info though. If you got yours online, just check that. Many pond plants die back and drop and then resurface when they come into growth when the time...