Showing posts with label water gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water gardens. Show all posts
Monday, April 28, 2008

Feeding fish

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Do not feed goldfish because it turns the pond into an outdoor aquarium, but here's yet another reason not to feed them. Fish soon re...
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Friday, March 14, 2008

Spring is coming!

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It's almost 80ยบ here in New Orleans today. We have pond plants sticking their green noses up in the air. The Louisiana iris are gettin...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Letters, we get letters

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Question about koi pond construction: I have had several propositions so far this year for a pond. I know where I want it, just not entirely...
Friday, April 06, 2007

Making the pond appear bigger

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If for some reason you cannot make your pond as large as you would like, there are design tricks you can use to fool the eye into seeing wat...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Pond Conversation Overheard

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Pre Katrina, my office overlooked our front yard where the pond was. One unusual New Orleans day when we could have our windows open, I over...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Plants and Fish

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IF YOU HAVE KOI, DISREGARD THIS POST! Koi eat plants, all plants, all the time. You can screen off your koi or your plants, but if you allo...
Monday, March 19, 2007

Pond Depth

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Dear Pond Lady, We live in Pennsylvania and it does get pretty cold here in the winter. We are planning to build our first lily pond this su...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

pond Plants, arrowhead, pickerel

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Two of the broadleaf bog plants are Arrowhead (Sagittaria japonica) and Pickerel rushes (Pontederia cordata). Both of these rushes bloom...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Thinking about spring

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I know, I know, it's January and it's cold out there. But the seed catalogs are arriving and all of you under a snow blanket are re...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

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Welcome to the pondlady's occasional musings, philosophies, pond tips, troubleshooting, maintenance and spotlighting of great new produc...