Thread: My fishpond and Flowers

Well it's Sunday afternoon and it's pissing down so I thought I post a few photo's of my fish pond I'm really please with it how it's turned out cause I'm no expert on keeping fish or the garden.



The plant with Orange flowers I dont know what it is called but I find in the garden about 6 month ago looking dead and buired so I repoted it and thought I'll put in the pond I thought it looks really good.

It's growing like mad but I wish the wind and rain would stop keeps blowing all the flowers off

I'm no good at photography also but I've got it sorted really I took them at the wrong time of the day i can see what I did wrong, early in the morning there is no light on the pond and also at 7am when I usually feed them they all waiting.

I have many fish in there a Stingray fresh water kind some I dont even know

Mother Nature knows what she is doing. The flowers will come back. Have to say your garden is looking good!

Nice garden.

And the pictures are ok, much better than I can do anyway ...

Cheers, the pond has been there about 5 years from the previous owners and the plants in the corners were the only ones there I put the rest in also to stop them birds coming down, all I had was a load of frogs believe it or not I don't get them no more

Originally Posted by Perota

Nice garden.

And the pictures are ok, much better than I can do anyway ...

Thanks

Looks very lush. Have you thought about a few koi carp to add a little colour.

Looks like you got yourself a nice place there FR, pool n all.

I'm not sure if they could live together now I've got some kind of cat fish in there and it's huge and nasty

Also have 3 arowana fish and they bite

Originally Posted by The Muffinman

Looks like you got yourself a nice place there FR, pool n all.

Thanks for 18 months I have been renovating it

I've had catfish and koi living quite peacefully together for the past 6 years. Small koi are quite inexpensive to purchase but i think the Arowana may see them as a food source so maybe not a good idea. Also Arawona are quite partial to frogs so possibly that is the reason why they are no longer around.

Nice looking pond FR, well done

Originally Posted by FarangRed

Originally Posted by The Muffinman

Looks like you got yourself a nice place there FR, pool n all.

Thanks for 18 months I have been renovating it

You've done a good job by the look of it. Nout wrong with the pictures either.

Beautiful.

[quote=Mr Lick;1546717]I've had catfish and koi living quite peacefully together for the past 6 years. Small koi are quite inexpensive to purchase but i think the Arowana may see them as a food source so maybe not a good idea. Also Arawona are quite partial to frogs so possibly that is the reason why they are no longer around.

Nice looking pond FR, well done [/quot

Originally Posted by tsicar

beautiful pond.
don't know the scientific name for the plant with the orange flowers, but i have always known them as kanna (canna?)
available in all shades from yellows to bright magenta, with mixtures and stripes etc.
yours has the varigated leaf, but many just plain green.
i had 4 different colours and they will grow and thrive almost anywhere, from hard dry soil to wet clay
they will grow submerged, and you can break pieces off the bulbs and propogate them very easily.
congrats on a fantastic, natural looking pond- an asset to any home or garden (and a wonderfull, peacefull place to sit and get pissed and just let the stress go away and the world go by!)

Thats exactly what I do in the morning at 6am everybody can fuk off I feed the fish have a ciggy and a coffee and a swim

Yeah but here no i never see flower like that until I put in the pond

Originally Posted by tsicar

beautiful pond.
don't know the scientific name for the plant with the orange flowers, but i have always known them as kanna (canna?)
available in all shades from yellows to bright magenta, with mixtures and stripes etc.
yours has the varigated leaf, but many just plain green.
i had 4 different colours and they will grow and thrive almost anywhere, from hard dry soil to wet clay
they will grow submerged, and you can break pieces off the bulbs and propogate them very easily.
congrats on a fantastic, natural looking pond- an asset to any home or garden (and a wonderfull, peacefull place to sit and get pissed and just let the stress go away and the world go by!)

Hey thanks, that's what we do every night and also that's the the way I drive my truck in the garage all the time

Does that not look good^I am proud of that the colours and everything believe me I know nothing about gardens but I sit there everyday and watch the fish and tonight I have a few red wines but who cares, with my wife bye the way