The Pleasure of Garden Pond

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5 Popular Water Garden Pond Plants

5 Popular Water Garden Pond PlantsWater lilies have several functions in a pond, which is why it is a favorite among ponders. Not only are they visually appealing and wonderfully fragrant, they provide your fish with cover and help keep the algae down in your posicionamiento web natural pond

Water lilies need at least 5 hours of sunlight a day and calm water. With water lilies you have many varieties to choose from, the two general types are hardy and tropical. Hardy water lilies will reward you year after year with abundant foliage and a wide variety of colorful flowers. Tropical water lilies have leaves with serrated edges and they stand above the water.

Lotuses are popular even though they have a reputation of being hard to grow or tropical. While it is true that they may overwhelm a small pond they do not need any more care than a water lily once established. The only real requirement of a Lotus is that they have two to three months of daytime temperatures over 80 degrees F. Most Lotus will only bloom for three days, but they change colors each day. The cone shaped seedpod can be used for dried flower arrangements. Continue Reading…

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Discover Some Basic Garden Pond Planning Tips

garden pondPeople are wising up to the fact that extending a home can significantly add value to it. If done sensibly, the value is usually more than the cost of the building work. Buying a new family home in the UK is becoming more expensive due to increasing house prices, so extending is a good alternative to moving. Increasing the value of a home is not just about the physical building but also the garden, no matter what the size. So, if you are thinking of adding a pond to your garden a lot of planning needs to be done so it doesn’t look out of place. Just as a home extension requires planning so that it looks part of the original build, so too does a pond so that it looks part of the overall landscape of the property.

Time taken in the planning stage is never wasted. It may sound so obvious, but it is important that your pond looks as if it is meant to be in your garden. If you have a garden, which is quite formal in its layout, a pond with curved or uneven edges won’t look right. Equally, a square or rectangular pond will not suit a less formal garden. Creating a pond requires physical effort and financial expenditure so anything that you can do to ensure that you don’t have to re-do any work has got to be worthwhile. Continue Reading…

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Marginal Plants For The Garden Pond. Part 4. The Iris

This plant deserves a full article all of its own. The Iris. There are 3 species of Iris which can be considered to be true aquatic plants for growing all year round in the shallows of a pond and i consider it to be unthinkable to have a collection of Marginals without having at least one of these beautiful plants growing in your pond. The most important species for the ordinary garden pond is Iris Ieavigata (Japnese Water Iris). The three petalled blooms are somwhere in the region of about 5 inches across and they are borne on 2 ft. high stems. The first flowers normally open in June and are clear blue with a yellow line down the centre of each petal. A second flush of blooms may appear in September depending on the climate that you are living in.

There are a number of varieties, you can choose from ‘Snowdrift’ (white with 6 petals), ‘Dorothy’ (blue with a white line down the centre of each petal), Continue Reading…

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