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Thread: My pond's plants..
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08-09-2016, 11:13 AM #1
My pond's plants..
Well I inherited a pond.. had to restart from scratch after a veggie filter problem (overflow during holiday left koi high dry) but that was a couple of years ago.. now..
Firstly this flowered for the first time this year.. Water Iris..
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Next my Lillies went bananas - masses of flowers and pads
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Before the new pump, filter replacements and veggie filter re-line and deepening:
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Also the veggie filter stink horn cabbage flowered earlier in the year. I also have a yearly crop of water cress that acts like a fine matter strainer with the roots! This is currently waiting to be reintroduced to the veggie filter after the rework:
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So.. having koi doesn't mean you end up with no plants I only have a couple along with some ghost koi and a couple of others.
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08-09-2016, 11:21 AM #2
I bought all my plants from this place: Buying Aquatic Pond Plants | Lilies Water Gardens UK & EU
I've popped in a couple of times over the years to select and pick up plants. They only deal with water plants and wandering around the polly tunnels - the place is filled with dragonflies
Some really beautiful plants and very knowledgeable staff.
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26-09-2016, 08:17 AM #3
love to see plants in a pond,ive had lillies in mine for years but for some reason they havnt done well this year,keeps the nitrate down.
John
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08-03-2017, 05:00 AM #4
You have a beautiful pond. Liked it.
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14-06-2017, 03:30 PM #5
This year was more about the iris.. they went nuts, all of them!
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Running heater at low temp?
Covering the pond with polycarb should be enough to stop water temps dipping below 6C for the most...