RE: water garden
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: water garden
- From: N* L*
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:24:26 CDT
Valerie suggested:
>
>The main mistake I made was not putting enough oxygenators in the pond
>immediately nor having enough floaters to shade the water. This resulted
>in a prolific growth of blanket weed etc <snip>
That seems like good advice. I'll make it a point to get them in right
away.
>It is said that if you can get even just a jar full of water from an
>established pond this helps to get the pond off to a good start.
I actually had wondered about putting the water siphoned out of my aquarium
into the pond, at least initially. (I use biological filtering in the
aquarium.) 'Course, it will a sacrifice; I usually use that water for my
houseplants!
>The advice we had about timing, was to build and plant up in early spring.
I figured that was probably optimum, but the guy that's going to help
install it is available soon, plus I have a garden wedding coming up in
June, and I'd like to have it look "established" by that time. I'm hoping
if I just put in some basic stuff this fall, I can "polish it up" in the
spring and have it looking good by June.
Thanks for the help!
Nancy Lowe
Arkansas, zone 7
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