Monday, April 30, 2007

My goldfish are brown!

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Most goldfish are born black/brownish. That 's because their mommas will eat them if they can find them, so being in camouflage is a sur...
Friday, April 27, 2007

Help, my pond is leaking

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I had to share my flower garden as of 10 minutes ago. The New Orleans spring garden makes it allmost worth it to live here. Now on to t...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Garden Design

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William H. Frederick, a garden designer, states in a recent Horticulture magazine, "The greatest way to destroy a good garden is to com...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Pond Disasters

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Most pond disasters are caused by the pond owner. They are due to a lack of pond education or just plain stupidity. I had clients who did no...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

How to build a waterfall

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No, not this one, a waterfall for your pond. When building a waterfall, stacking the rocks with spaces between them makes the falls loud...
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Friday, April 20, 2007

We have a guest blogger today

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DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS by Carolyn Weise This is the “all pond owners are not created equal” or, rather, “not the same” articl...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

My Plants/Fish are Dying, help

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My Stella D'oro dayllily yesterday For pond problems, check the following possibilities: Are grass clippings or other debris getti...
Monday, April 16, 2007

Keeping anacharis alive

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Louisiana Iris black gamecock bud Now on to anacharis problems: If you have a concrete pond that has not been properly sealed or is n...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

I built a pond, now what?

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First of all, you need to realize that a pond is a living breathing organism that needs little maintenance if it is started properly. If you...
Thursday, April 12, 2007

Mosquito fish

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Remember awhile ago we talked about mosquito fish I got this letter from a fish farm owner who adds to my education and, I hope, yours ab...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Bog garden, continued

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Because it rained from dawn to dark yesterday, you can see the reason I need a bog garden. Those black piles of soil are where crawfish pus...
Monday, April 09, 2007

My Bog Garden

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I just planted a bog garden in my front yard. Seems strange, you say, to put bog garden in a front yard. Well, I guess it is. But you don...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007

My pond looks like pea soup

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Questions for the pondlady: I followed all the rules, did everything you said to do, Jan, but my pond is completely green. I couldn't bu...
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...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Let's Talk Design

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Design, whether it is a garden or cathedral, a living room or your wardrobe is all the same. It is simply putting things where you think the...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Start a Pond Society

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We pond builders love visitors to our gardens and ponds and hope that our visitors will enjoy our ponds as much as we do. We want them to q...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Tiny pond

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I call this the tiniest pond I have ever done. It is simply a casserole dish balanced ecologically so the water will not be stagnant. Now I ...
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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 27, 2007

Wild Plants

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Spring is arriving quickly in all parts of the country and we want our ponds to look great. So we are starting to replace plants that did...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

One way to overwinter a pond

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Dear Jan, I have successfully overwintered a "temporary" pond in an 18" deep, 8 foot diameter plastic kiddy pool (plants, f...
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