Water Gardening

Thanks, everyone, for all the help and advice. I won't rush into anything, and if I do decide on the pond option I will wait till the weather warms up.Walnut - I will definitely need to make sure the young cat in my av can't help herself to a free fish supper!!

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Tangle I have pea netting covering the whole pond (no little ones to worry about) certainly put a safety grid over if there are small children about,my fish actually follow me when I walk around the pond constantly wanting to be fed. Here's a diagram explaining the Nitrification cycle.

Thanks Walnut & Midnight Rose. Sorry for the long delay in replying. I carry out your suggestions for next year.

Wow!.....what beautiful fish....worth a pretty penny I bet

Trout taste nice.

Hi lollypop..love the name by the way.. no I have never thought of showing my koi, actually catching them is a feat of art, I find, let alone the hassle that must be involved in showing them, and think if one died while on route somewhere. no mine are very happy, just being admired by me !!

Very pretty, well done! Do you know the names of them? I might get a pink or red one to go with my white one (N. alba). I also quite fancied a colour changing one... I wonder if it matters too much if they aren't deadheaded cos I've got rather a large pond to be reaching across!

You could give some to your friends always nice to have something from another gardener. My garden is full of plants with a story attached. Some were cuttings but we won't go into that.

Roundup is aproved for use on aquatic plants and is reasnably effective, however i tend to agree with wallnut.As with all pesticides and herbicides, you should follow the instructions as per dose, The manufacture's carefully calculate the dose rate and doubling the dose is usually...

Believe it or not ducks are the worst thing for a domestic wild lfe pond. They "dump" every where and with their feet going at ten to the dozen they can soon stir up a shallow pond.Been to a nice garden centre earlier this year, they sell duck food so you can feed the ducks, (they will take it...

Thank you, I can understand your concern re upkeep but mine was built with mainly recycled matterials. The tank I had to buy second hand and eventually after trying many small pumps I did buy the smallest one I could find with a filter and uv light, it works a treat and keeps the pond lovely...

Boveytracey any chance of a picture?

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in short, you should choose a pump that is capable of delivering a reasonable amount of water to the required height (4 feet in your case)most pumps have a flow graph on the boxas for how much water it depends on how wide the feature isusualy the left is height the bottom is LPM...

mine has run dry loads of times and its still going strong and only tap water

Are you sure they're water crystals? Maybe a slug left them behind after laying them.:eek:

:D:D dont be giving me ideas:thumb: dont know much about the price of fish apart from the chippy is gettin expensive but some of these must be worth a few bob....hel would love to get my fishing rod out think ill ask the gaffer this one is a monster ..watch this space im going to put my...

Vik, check the Blagdon and Lotus websites, see what they advise.

I was wondering where the leaves were :o