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my lil pond im working on


i plan to get more fishys
im working on ideas so the tiers arnt so bare looking, and gotta get a bigger pump its a work in progress!

this is my bigger pond in the shade



also a work inprogress

i love your ponds... the one wrapping around the tree is an inspiration for me... i have an idea, just gotta figure out how to put it in motion! will that one have fish too?

im glad its giving you inspiration, what ideas are you having?

I love it too! :wuv: That is such a creative idea Christy.

Have you thought about plants that hang?



Do you have a Petsmart near you? I found a submersable pump for 500 gallons there for $20.00.

Donna

Very nice Christy.....you're lucky to now have 2 ponds.... :thum:

I can get you some of the*************(<<<<<I'll fill in when remember name,that feathery stuff underwater....brain freeze)And have lizzards tail.I can just pack up with the lillys. Your ponds are nice.I like the shade one,but hate cleaning the leaves.Thats the same pond I have in center of brug island.

donna thanks! im going to check out petsmart! wallyworld wanted 75bucks for a pump! and yes hanging plants are a must! i thought about getting baskets to set the tiers in and planting in the baskets becide the tiers, now im thinking od just making flower boxes and useing bark on the outside of them so it blends in with the logs. either way what ever i put the tiers in is gonna be big enough for the tiers and plants :)

thanks njoynit! i would love that! let me know how much postage to send ya! *big smiles*
yep its a mess with leaves right now, i clean it out real good in spring, then just keep up with it with a net, i get frogs in it :)

thanks penny, loz and jiffy!
im putting my all into em this year! so hope they look great this summer.
i got lucky with the biger pond, my brothers a landscaper and he was redoing someladys yard, she told him to toss out the pond, so he did! in my yard!! whoo hoo free pond!!

thanks triss! i kicked butt on the shade pond today! i dug it out and redid the border around it, and took out the lil hostas,
it was a mix of rocks and logs, now its has all logs around it, and the rocks are at the bottom of the logs,
the hostas i orderd will be in soon! yeaaaa! i still need to finish puttin the rocks in place, ran out of daylight, i took pics, ill post those soon , i wanna put the hosta in with the rocks.

finaly! dont know why photobuckets so slow for me!


my hostas came in today! i got 2 white i was thinkin of pputtin on each side oof the step lookin rock. and a collection mix for here and there. and somthig colorful top put in around the pond. was thinkin impatience? dont mind the mess! im still nooot done with placin the roocks

thanks, it will look much better once its filled in with plants:)

I want one, I want one. Good job, keep the pics coming.

thanks!! ill take another pic this weekend, when all the plants are in. and in summer when they fill out.
so far i planted 2 white hostas, a blue hosta, you can see all the little ones sittin on the bench waitin to be planted!, i started planten a couple of em, but bb had other ideas to do in the yard! kids!

Christy it's looking really great! Love the pictures!

I got a few pond plants yesterday! Some Hyacinth and an Umbrella type plant! Do you put any plants in the pond?

so far loz i just have water lilies that never bloom, tons of lilly pads though, i plan to get more. lots of diffrent kinds! :) my lilies are startin to grow! i seen em today!!
im also wantin to get a solar pump for it, dont realy want to run a cord all the way down there. my hubby said he would dig and run a line, but with all the diging i do im scared ill dig into it in the futchure!

Oh Christy, wow! Those ponds are awesome! When did you say you were coming to Kansas to put my pond in?!? :wink:

that would be a blast! when did you say you were moving to pa so i can come over your house and help ya with your pond???

up date! the hostas are in

now just waitin for them to grow! and the lilies are startin to get their pads!

i want one like that in the middle of what will be my front yard when it is cleared.

that would like nice jiffy! you have lots of trees around your house to, i always get the ones that fall over from the storms, also we have lots of bondfiers here and hubbys friends are always bringing fierwood. i used the last for the pond border, good thing summers getting here, need more wood for the garden,,,oops i mean bondfiers! ,,lol :)
i cleaned out the lil pond today. waitin for it to refill up, and sent hubby out for fish!! yeaaa fish!

hubby just got back! they didnt have any shumbkins! so he got coy fish! their pretty neat.

thanks triss, one is orangeis gold and the other is grey, they remind me of dragons, i will put them in the biger pond once its cleaned out, and get shubkins for the lil pond. i got a better pic cause there out of the bagies now,

very nice. how big is are they?

thanks jiffy there about 6 inches long, the lady at petsmart said they can get up to 2 feet!

triss i didnt think of that!
ill have a sighn in the yard :free fish!:

Triss.you would not say that if knew about Cindy's lil sex fens.I think some viagria fell in her pond though..............They multiplied by the 1000s.


pond looks great.You should have blooms opening on the pads I sent.One should open Tommorow while in transit.
I'll have to shoot a picture of my pond.

I'm not using a pump on my pond.I have a frog that hangs out in it pretty much ConstantLY.I pull him out all the time and he returns or dives when I try to relocate.I'm hoping a few of the minnows are still in to help eat the sketteres.I've not reset up the other 2.

i got the water plants today njoynit!!!!!!!!!
therte in the pond already! thank you soooooooo much! you were more then generous! im gonna put some in the big pond as soon as i fiil it back up! and theres buds on the lilies! ill take pics as soon as i find my camara!

wow that looks cool!

so now i know why i really like my half barrel pond. there isn't any shallows for my gold fish to act like cindy's!

not that they aren't trying, but the pond is too deep, everywhere, for it to work

looks wonderful

oops i just found out last night my hubby got me koi fish! not coy fish.
i think i coon got the grey hes gone, the top tier was knocked off, waterplants were every were and the grey was gone,
i got another gold koi last night, its more of a yellow gold, and 6 goldfish.
i cleaned out and planted impaience around he shade pond, will put the new fishys in it later when thet ajust to the water temps. their floatin in the bagies right now
and the white hostas are up!!! wow! they realy stand out.

Those coons are onery huh?!? Sorry you lost your grey Sure am enjoying your pics of your pond!

havent updated in awile, i moved around some pics in photobucket soooo
heres my shade pond from start to finish





well almost finished, :wink: theres still plants i wanna get.

WOW i like it!

That is really pretty. Thanks for sharing!!

thanks :}

gotta get off my but n finish the lil pond

soooooooooooo pretty, and looks weed free! must be nice i now have more weeds than plants, want to make a sign---GARDEN OF WEEDIN!

That is so pretty!! It gives me a nice peaceful sigh to look at it! Just what I needed! Is that a bench behind it? Can we see a close up? The framing looks interesting.

WOW Christy - that looks sooooo nice!
Is that impatiens growing all around it? I only have luck with them sporadically, usually not - yours look so healthy!

Christy that is awesome!!!!!!!!!! Good Job~ It's sooooooo pretty!