MY B POND

Recent photos of our pond, taken on Memorial Weekend 1999.

(as you can see plant life is still in the very early stages of growing, we haven't had much warm or hot sunny weather by this time of year)

Our pond is approx. 25 ft. X 45 ft. and contains about 20,000 gallons. It is somewhat shaped in a "C" with the waterfall/filter placed on the peninsula and spilling into the north cove.

This is looking towards the south from under our large oak in the back yard. We have reddish pea gravel for the walkway all around the pond. We also have path lights and spot lights that enhance the pond at night. Where this picture is taken is what we call the north cove and where we sit, watch and listen to the waterfall. The north cove is where we feed our fish in the evening. I will put up more pictures with closer viewing of the north cove later. Behind the waterfall is what we call our shallow area or west cove. I have pink, red, yellow and white lotus planted in that area. This is also where we dug steps for easy access into the pond. The west cove is where we have our pump placed within the deep water cattails and golden rushes. It also is the place where we release new fish into the pond. I will put up pictures of this west cove later.

This is the "South Cove".

It is at the far south end of our pond. We have all the lilies located in this area. There are 20 species in the cove at this time. Listed are: Berit Strawn, Comanche, Attraction, Arc En Ceil, Fabiola, Queen of Whites, Texas Dawn, Firecrest, Ellisiana, Perrys Super Red, Red Glaris, Sunrise, Camilla, Pink Opal, Pink Beauty, E.G. Hutchings, Woods White Knight, Edward Urber, Colorata and Blue Capensis. As you can see they are just barely starting to shoot pads and bloom. In full season, this south cove will be covered thickly with lily pads and blooms. The south cove is also the deepest part of the pond, 4 feet with very steep sides.

We also have many types of edge water plants around this end, including Elephant Ear (the lower right corner of the photo) just starting to open up. Chameleon plant, caladuims, touch me knots, cardinal plant, yellow iris, indian basket grass, purple pickeral, arrow heads, most of these are very small at this time. This gives you a good idea of how I created the dirt edges. To make more of a dry soil, I doubled up on the rock height at the inner ledge edge to hold more dirt.

As you can see the lilies are just starting to make their way to the top. A few of my hardys are hardier than the rest so they haven't had any problems getting there first. The others are slowly making their way to the top. You can see the Queen of Whites in bloom now.

The picture below is a good one standing at the south cove looking north.

A really good picture below of viewing the rock/dirt edges for the bog/marginal plants

A close up picture of the edges. See how natural the plants look in the pond? If you had a magnifier you might be able to see all the tadpoles playing in the dirt. These plants are in the water about two to three inches, they would be purple and pink pickerals, yellow iris, indian basket grass, dwarf cattails, arrow heads, arrow arum, floating hearts, four leaf clover, varigated lily, parrots feather and thiala dealbata.

Below is a good picture of a moist, dry area of the edging. You can plant a lot of different kind of plants in this soil. Again look at the double row of rocks at the waters edge to build up the height for the dirt. I have touch me knots, caladiums, elephant ears, regular iris' and daylilies, arrow heads, cardinal plant, chameleon plant, chocolate mint, and a strawberry plant growing in this soil.

We will add/change photos as the system matures.

We are looking forward to sharing our pond with you.

Hope you enjoyed your visit to "myBpond". Come back often.

email me at janetm@rahab.net

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