I'm just wondering...

Have you ever thought of putting pictures of your pond in a member's gallery? It is so beautiful and well done, I think lots of folks would enjoy seeing the collection of photos all in one spot.


Merme

Are you winterizing yet?

Did you tell us you were going to wait on this I can't remember and couldn't find where you said,,




Inquiring minds want to know

I too am curious on both questions----

so what is next, Lynne ??? inquiring minds for sure wanna know----

Don ordered a heater online and we got it 2 days ago. It's still too early to put it in the pond though.

Today I saw 7 of the 9 fish before we left for the evening - I was very surprised to see so many since it's been cool and gloomy out most of this week, but very glad to see so many are still there. I'm hoping the other 2 are hiding already for winter and not eaten by the heron.

If tomorrow is decent out, I will have to brave the cold water and go in the pond one last time for this season to place some of the plants that are on the shelves down into the bottom for the winter. I'm hoping they overwinter ok there, because I really don't have room to bring them inside. If not, they weren't too expensive, so I'll have to start over again next spring, if I am lucky to find the same plants then. Time will tell...

7 of 9 fish---wow that is a good count in light of the heron.


I hope it is a bit warmer for you tomorrow so you can actually not freeze while you are out in the pond.--Good luck with all of that....

Thanks Carol!

It's yet another cool rainy day, so I probably won't be going into the pond today. Unless Don wants to stand out in the rain to help me get into and out of the pond - I figure I'm going to get wet either way!

But he doesn't do rain!

Will the Curly Rush and pink water lillies make it through the winter? That Curly Rush is so unique.

My arm is now shredded!!!

You see... I was holding Butterscotch in his small room just off the kitchen. The windows in there are directly opposite the pond with a terrific view of it. We were cuddling , when all of a sudden there was a BIG black shadow over the pond! The heron was coming in for a landing!!! I got so upset that I banged on the window really loud and forgot that I was holding Butterscotch! This scared the bejeebers out of him and he clawed my upper arm to get out of my hold!

DAMN HERON!!!

Ohhhhhh man Lynne OUCH! and poor butterscotch too,, he had no idea what was happening,
'Sure wish there was something that could be done about the heron coming to your pond,, but, nature is nature in it's own right ya know?
Unfortunately at times tho, it ( nature) causes havoc.
so sorry about your arm

OH my, kisses & hugs to the both of you.

I hope that that Heron went away "empty mouthed" & hungry!!!!!

he can get his supper some other place.

There's got to be some fast way to get rid of this bird.

Well we've had temperatures outside near or in the 50's the past week, and the fish have decided it's a nice time to surface from winter. They've been hanging out just at surface level - makes me so nervous because of the heron. They are so easy to see now with their bright orange colors and no plants currently growing to help conceal them.

All 8 that are left are visable these days thankfully! It was difficult to take a clear picture with the trees reflecting on the surface.



It looks like the curly rush has some green leaves left on it, as well as the parrots feather and a couple of other plants - they were all submersed to the bottom of the pond to avoid freezing. The heater that Don bought in the fall seemed to work very nicely. There is a lot of dirt, debris and leaves to be cleaned out once we really warm up for good.

thanks for the update, Lynne.

and I think that is a very nice photo of the fish.
It is as if they posed just for you!!!

Omgosh I didn't know you had a heater That's Great! and you've seen your fish! I'm sooooo happy for you

I'm also thrilled to hear you have plants that survived your winter. It'll be warming up soon there, when you do plan to bring them to the surface?
I didn't see this earlier on the forum list (I'm guessing it must have been hidden by another post in a thread in this landscape t&t's group? )so I missed the picture I'll keep a look out for future post(s) here

I missed it also...can you re-post your pic...please.

I just love that photo, and as an added bonus you get to see a reflection of the trees in the water.

I think you should enter it into a photo competition someplace.

I second that ! that's a great Picture Lynne! Thanks for reposting it!

Thanks...what a great pic...it still amazes me how they can winter over in a pond...what tough little guys.

Thanks so much, Carol, Diane, and Tamara!

Tamara - the reason they did so well I believe, is that Don put a heater in the pond to keep the air exchanging and the surface from totally freezing over. The heater really worked well - we could see steam around it during the coldest days.

that's a beautiful photo. I didn't realize you don't feed them in the winter.

that would have made a great picture when you had snow

I bought 12 more "feeder" fish yesterday at PetSmart for the pond. They had a nice selection and the guy knows me there and let me "hand pick" each one that I wanted. I got a nice variety of orange and white mixed ones - the ones that I think look most like koi, but only cost me 27 cents each - in case they do not make it, it's not such a bid deal ya know?!?

It was very cold when I put them in yesterday, though I did acclimate them to the water temperature before releasing them. Today is supposed to be even colder and then it will SLOWLY warm up each day this week. Next weekend is supposed to be in the 70's again - YEA!