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» Cottage_Garden - a little detour to garden ponds

WOW Fantastic! That sounds like a spring overhaul not just a little seed planting action!

Looking at the list you have a majority of spring bloomers and cool weather loving plants. Are your summer temps that cool? (My geography is not that good -- am not sure of the weather pattern except to know your winters are mild rather than outright cold, but also rainy.) Golly I'll probably have to find a Farenheit/Celsius calculator to translate whatever you tell me, too. LOL

Of all the things I miss after moving and leaving my big garden behind, the ponds are definitely near the top of the list. They are so special. Once I finally tried a pond -- many years ago, it was a mail order kit with a big plastic pool for the patio) -- I always had at least one. I even kept that first one going, moved it cross country and several times after that.

Mine were always small enough that I could reach to the bottom if I needed to without getting into the pond. Did you have to climb in wearing waders? Or did you just skim a little?

Just wondering. If you have 100 goldfish now, will you have 100,000 in a couple of months -- maybe you need some raccoons to help the heron out? Hand them out to neighbor kids?! Take them to the carnival and run a booth for wayward fish and pingpong balls?! Oh my. Now that kind of project could subsidize your gardening budget.

-- posted by Cottage_Garden