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Thats pretty and lots of flowers to, is this in your garden Kathy?

Yes Carole beside our pond, haven't got the dreaded mildew yet either:-)

Mine have done well this year Kathy and like you no mildew yet , makes a nice change :o)

Very nice, you have a big pond Kathy, it looks lovely.

Does doesn't it Amy usually starting to get it now.
Thanks Dawn, need to fish a bit more weed out, again, it grows far to fast.

What a lovely big pond Kathy! I have got mildew on my Buddleia Buzz I have sprayed it with a fungacide, but hope I dont lose it as its new this year;0(

Thats a very pretty one love the effect too.

Hi Kathy, we need some fish! We've got a weed appearing under the surface, not sure what it is but need some carp to keep it eaten, maybe a couple of 100 of small fry but not having much look getting some.

Pity you're not a bit nearer Dawn, sooo many fish in the pond now,you could have had a few, at feeding time they go mad, like a bunch on piranhas,lol, we don't have carp just goldfish and shubunkin, and crikey have they bred, started off with 10,7 years ago, lost count now, and some of them are huge, one in particular when I feed them its like a flippin vacuum cleaner the others don't get a look in,lol.
Thanks Carole and sixpence:-)
Hope your buddleia survives Carole, not heard of that one, what colour is it ?

Oh Kathy, your pond sounds so lovely and the fish are obviously happy, multiplying away. Greedy devils, arent they. Trouble here is we get the heron, regularly and too big an area to protect, thought if we had little fish they would fair better. We did have some really big mirror carp that were fished out of our ponds at work, they were great, too big for the heron but sadly got washed away when we flooded once :-(

Luckily we haven't had any heron here, did at the old house, nearly completely emptied our pond of koi , (thats why we thought we'd have goldfish, less expensive if you loose a few),had to cover the pond with netting, looks so unsightly though doesn't it, used to take the net off in the morning, until the heron got wise to that and one day it was perched on the garage roof waiting for me to remove the net, had to keep it covered all the time after that, don't know whether its because there are some large trees near this one and they don'e see it when they're flying over? the neighbours have had problems with one, this ones really deep though so at least the fish can hide at the bottom.
Hope you manage to find some fish, remember seeing some advertised in our local free paper last spring time, really cheaply, koi too.
What a shame you lost your mirror carp, lovely fish:-( we used to go to a place when the kids were little, Elsham Hall, and the carp would feed out of your hand.

Hi Kathy, I bet the fish hide deep down out of the heron's reach, I agree netting over spoils the effect. Crafty those heron, one morning there were 6 on our pond, mostly young ones, it was like something out of jurassic park, lol. I hope we get some fish soon too, only need tiny ones that can grow, like mirror carp again, ours were tame too, happily fed closeby when we fed them.