Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Bog plants - the rushes

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There are more rushes than other emergent pond plants. We have such a grand variety, we can choose most any texture, shape, color and size...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Pond Plants, Taro

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Taros are another emergent plant to use in your pond. Their broad leaves add a shape that contrasts well with the rushes and strap leaf ir...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Pond Plants, Papyrus

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I love both of these bog plants. Both are placed in the pond with the tops of their pots about a inch under the water and they grow profus...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Pond Plants, Umbrella plants

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Umbrella plants, sometimes called umbrella palms or cyperus grow as full sized plants up to 6' tall or as dwarfs about 10 inches tall....
Sunday, February 18, 2007

The Louisiana Iris

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After we have put one bunch of oxygenating plants in the pond and covered at least 50% of the pond surface with floating plants, we can sta...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Floating Plants

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When we are balancing the pond ecologically, we know we must include oxygenating plants, submerged grasses like anacharis, hornwort or cab...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Spring really is coming

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We are soldiering through February, here in New Orleans with rain and upstate NY with a dozen feet of snow. But spring is coming. I am goi...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Spring?

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Good grief, for the last two days we have had weather in the 70's. For three days before that we had hard freezes. What's a pond to ...
Monday, February 05, 2007

Pond cleaning questions

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Question from a pond keeper: I have had my pond for three years now. the bottom is covered with small rocks about 3 inches deep for natural ...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Winter in New Orleans

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New Orleans is having its typical month of simply awful weather. It's raining almost daily. The temperatures are not cold, in the 40...
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, January 21, 2007

Letters, we get letters

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I am in need of a new pond heater for the pond in my newly-acquired home. Are the 100w de-icers efficient enough to keep the fish alive ove...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

Rain and more rain

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It has just now stopped raining in New Orleans and we are one soggy city. My shoes get sucked off if I walk through the front yard to the m...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Pondless waterfalls

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I have had questions lately about pondless watefalls. They are not all that different from regular ponds. First you dig a hole and line i...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

De-icing the pond

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Here's some ways to keep a hole in the pond ice. Gases need to be exchanged so fish can survive. On to the de-icing ideas: Carolyn...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Watch out for acid rain

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Often we have protracted periods of no rain here in Louisiana and then day after day of heavy rains. During the rainless times, we usually ...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Letters, we get letters

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Jan: I am 78 and am constructing my first water element. It is about finished. My problem is I am not quite sure how to handle the return...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Time to start thinking

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Happy New Year to everyone. But now that the year end festivities are over and carnival is 7 weeks away here in NO, we can start giving a ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Koi: Did you know?

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Fancy, different colored carp are called "nishikigoi," which literally means "brocaded carp" in Japanese. Koi is short ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Building a waterfall

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Building a Waterfall Building a waterfall is either simple or difficult depending on the point of view of the builder. We want them to loo...
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