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Water Garden Tips: A Warm Day by the Pond
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Sunday, March 2, 2008. A Warm Day by the Pond. I couldn’t resist it. We have had two 70-degree days in a row. I had to uncover the pond and have a peek. I see a few leaves have managed to make their way into the pond despite the cover. Even though it is quite warm outside the wind is blowing hard and more leaves tumbled across the garden, jumped in for a swim then skated across the pond like tiny sailboats. I see a tin...
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Water Garden Tips: July 2008
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Thursday, July 10, 2008. There is so much both going on and NOT. Going on in and around the ponds, that today’s post is merely a hodgepodge of things floating around in my head and I barely know where to begin. Though my water lilies seem to be late blooming this year, the gardens around the ponds are in full glory, with the hummingbirds enraptured by the prolific monarda that blooms above the original small pond. ...
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Water Garden Tips: Ponding Ponderings
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Thursday, July 10, 2008. There is so much both going on and NOT. Going on in and around the ponds, that today’s post is merely a hodgepodge of things floating around in my head and I barely know where to begin. Though my water lilies seem to be late blooming this year, the gardens around the ponds are in full glory, with the hummingbirds enraptured by the prolific monarda that blooms above the original small pond. ...
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Water Garden Tips: Making a Splash-Waterfalls and Plants
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Sunday, June 15, 2008. Making a Splash-Waterfalls and Plants. The smaller pond has become more of a filtration system than it is used as a pond. The waterfall into the small pond is more upright and has further to “fall”. Much of the debris that makes it through the pump in the large pond settles to the bottom of the small pond, leaving the top water clear as it flows into the river and finally back...The river has a g...
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Water Garden Tips: Spawing Koi and Goldfish
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Wednesday, June 4, 2008. Spawing Koi and Goldfish. I am sorry to be so long getting back to these pages. I think (I hope) you were anxious to hear about the spawning process. The weather here has not been favorable to an internet connection or even, for the most part, turning on my computer. Even as I write this, thunder is rolling and I have no connection to the internet. Fish that were not involved in the spawning it...
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Water Garden Tips: Losing Water
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The pump also has a hose that runs to the waterfall of the small pond, so all the water is circulated together. The water drains from the small pond into the river, leading to another small waterfall the pours back into the large pond. I moved the rocks along the river edge, where the liner meets the drains of the small pond. I raised the liner a bit and immediately discovered water under the...
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Water Garden Tips: May 2008
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. The Dangers of Cattails. To me there is something nostalgic about cattails, childhood memories of gathering a bouquet of cattails, waiting for them to burst then blowing their feathery seeds through the air. I then did not go back to California for three years (or has it been four? I had timed my trip this year to catch another sister in her final week in California. She is not the outdoor ga...
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Water Garden Tips: March 2008
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Wednesday, March 12, 2008. A Series of Unfortunate Events. Problems arise on occasion beyond our control. Today, I want to cover a series of unfortunate events, what issues they cause and how to deal with it now. Now that we are home do you have suggestions for what steps I should take to get the pond ready for the next season? Lemony snickets you have a tough problem here! Be careful with that shovel! Don’t remo...
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Water Garden Tips: February 2008
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Ramblings on planning, construction, care and other information about water gardening. Thursday, February 28, 2008. Today I intended to write about how to build your own bio-filter. However, I see that another blogger has done a very excellent job of doing just that. Another interesting thing she incorporated, she talks about in Part 2 of her blog on the subject, is she used quilt batting around one of her pumps. You can link to her blog here. Links to this post. Wednesday, February 27, 2008. It is Febru...
