Pond at Night

[Shirley]

You can't see the creatures... but there are 8 Koi, Shubunkins, Sarassa, and Comets, plus a number of frogs and other creatures in our little 100-gallon pond that I dug last June '04. Here is what it looks like at night... tonight, along with some random Asiatic Lily pics at night....I just collect the perennial seeds each fall and throw them around, and then each summer, things look a little different!

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/296.jpg

The tall green plants coming out of the water are yellow irises. They've multiplied like crazy, and have already bloomed.

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/298.jpg

All the water lilies made it through the winter, but they haven't bloomed yet.

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/301.jpg

Various perennial wildflowers around the pond... and their seed pods.

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/302.jpg more of the same.

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/304.jpg

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/305.jpg

Another angle... and you can see some fish...

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/328.jpg

Does anyone know what this flower is? I had two or three last year, and have many this year, and they are so pretty! They grow up a long stalk and last all summer and into fall. They surround the back side of the pond.

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/326.jpg

These have multiplied from a few bulbs to many, so I've transplanted them to several locations.

http://www.shirleymorgan.com/misc/Night-Pond/329.jpg

Another Asiatic Lily... I'm going to order more of these for next summer!
( http://brecks.com/ )

And here's how I made my pond last June '04, in case you want to make one... it took me 4 hours to dig it: (plus you can see how much it changed in a year... without any help from me!)

My Pond (http://shirleymorgan.com/misc/Pondweb/)

:thumbup:

[Jean]

they are beautiful flowers!:heart: I am not sure what pink & white one is. I had some like that long time ago. It looks like maybe, snails have been chewing on the leaves. They must be tasty too!

[Shirley]

I've never seen snails here... but we have a LOT of rabbits!! I mean, our whole neighborhood is a rabbit warren! And they live under our minibarn in the back yard, and they go under the hemlock tree which is not far from the pond... and they sit in the yard and LAUGH at Sonja b/c she's too stupid to see them, and when she does, she races after them and they run only fast enough to wear her out, then wait at the picket fence, then as Sonja gets there, they zip through! (Sonja's our Schnauzer who has yet to catch anything!)

[Shirley]

Oh, and the rabbits and chipmunks are why the hawks are frequently circling above, plus they sometimes capture birds from our feeder. :(

Lots of chipmunks live around the pond and have their burrows there... but they eat the bird seed, not plants like the rabbits do.

[Jean]

I've never seen snails here... but we have a LOT of rabbits!! I mean, our whole neighborhood is a rabbit warren! And they live under our minibarn in the back yard, and they go under the hemlock tree which is not far from the pond... and they sit in the yard and LAUGH at Sonja b/c she's too stupid to see them, and when she does, she races after them and they run only fast enough to wear her out, then wait at the picket fence, then as Sonja gets there, they zip through! (Sonja's our Schnauzer who has yet to catch anything!)

Your just not a family of hunters, That is all! :rotflmao: Sonja would be cute to catch rabbit chasing on video. :rotflmao:

[dee]

Shirley your pond is beautiful!! My mums visting me today (she lives an hour away) and I cant wait to show her your photos, shes really into gardening and your pond looks like something she'd dream of! Its rather dry here and our gardens never look that nice!

[Jean]

The rabbits are most likely the ones that like the leaves of that plant.

[Sue]

Shirley gorgeous pic's. WE have the asiatic lilies in out garden, yellow ones but I love the pink, may have to look out for them.:agree:

[Shirley]

The seeds of the wildflowers are what I wanted to send you... but the USPS and international laws and such have all these agricultural restrictions, and I never did get an answer for sure... would Dave know?

[icebear]

that pink and white is some sort of geranium i think.... i have seen it in seed catalogs- or something very similar to that. there is also a king of hollyhock/mallow that looks similar... i'll try and look it up to see if i can get which one it is.

i think its ok to send seeds over the puddle, its actual plants w/ soil that poses a real problem if i remember correctly.

[icebear]

i think this is what i was thinking of:

http://www.burpee.com/images/us//local/products/detail/b37606.jpg


malva sylvestris zebrina

i'll keep looking...its flowering style seems different....

[icebear]

ok, i think it is a Malva
http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Malva/galleryM.html


sorry for all the posts, but i like playing the "id this..." game :)

http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Malva/Malva137.jpg
Malva sylvestris 'Zebrina' © 2004 Stewart R. Hinsley

[Shirley]

Oh Heather!! Yes! That's it! THANK YOU! (I've been calling them "hollyhocks" and not knowing why! and Steve has been telling me they are not hollyhocks!"

Over the PUDDLE! How funny!

Well.... If I can send seeds.... COOL! They make a bunch!

I save all the seeds I can in the fall....

:thanx: Thank you Heather!! :thanx:

[Jean]

:thankx: Heather, That is great to know. I could not think of what they were either.

[Sue]

The seeds of the wildflowers are what I wanted to send you... but the USPS and international laws and such have all these agricultural restrictions, and I never did get an answer for sure... would Dave know?

I'll ask and try to find out, we could swap seeds.:agree:

[Junkzoo]

Lookin good Shirley:thumbup:
What a difference a year makes!:agree: