The pond in early February

The fish are really colourful. You must find watching them therapeutic.

What plants do you have around the pond?

Yes I love watching the fish. Some have very distinct habits and a couple will take food from my hands. There are also 2 wild type carp in there, they'd make a good meal now as they must way over 2lb.
I also like watching the dragon flies that visit as well as the other water invertebrates.
In the pond are : yellow flag, bog bean, water soldier, acoris variegated form, lobelia cardinalis, lady's smock, 3 different water lilies.

If you mean in the pots on the wall there are Iris reticulata, crocus, hyacinths, 2 variegated Daphne, agapanthus, cyclamen coum and narcissus jet fire & tete et tete.

That's a lovely view from your window Sbg. Makes me wish we'd made our pond bigger! Don't the pots blow over into the water in the winter? They would here...Looking forward to seeing photos later in the year.

It's looking lovely! I know our garden is tiny but I wish I could see more of my pond from the big window, be lovely to sit and watch the fish from inside on a rainy day

The pots are heavy terracotta or stone glazed pot so they don't blow over Stera.

yes I love sitting on the pond wall if its dry but inside from the kitchen or the conservatory Dan.

Thats a sizeable 'body of water' :) its very nice to be able to watch the fish from inside!

Great size pond, with loads of fish. Do you find they get predated? Oh, to have a field behind the garden.
Good idea to have pots within pot to exchange seasonally. I too do that, also sink plastic pots in the garden and put a smaller pot into it with a seasonal plant.

as it is a raised pond we don't get herons as their method of fishing is to wade in to the water. We often see them overhead as there are some ponds about 2 miles away.
the only real 'pest' is a local cat that sits on the wall.
last spring a herring gull picked one goldfish out but when it saw us at the window it flew off and dropped the fish. she'd been stabbed but I put her back in and she is still alive and apart from a scar without scales she has recovered.

It gets a thorough cleaning usually every 3 or so years. Daughter and I did it last year. I did a blog on it.

I also sink pots in the ground mainly lilies and gladioli then replaced by dahlias. its easier when they need lifting for the winter protection.

it is a good size pond and whenever you show it always seems in excellent health.
I Recon Dan would give his right arm for that one.

It's a great one! Might have to take some inspiration for my next pond!!

Apart from naturally greening up April time, which we just ignore, we don't do anything to it other than topping up if it drops more than 6" due to evaporation.

we get allsorts of critters visiting it.

My word that is a large pond, we used to have a larger pond with fish unfortunately the local cats and the heron soon saw them off hence the barrel!! I agree with Siris oh to have fields behind instead of houses....I like the idea of pots within a pot, now what didn't we think of that lol

What a great pond. So much to see and do.

Going to look at your pond cleaning blog, as it's another miserable day.

I cant have done a blog on the actual clear up as there is an update in 2015. There is a photo showing the very clean pond the day the fish went back in, October 30th 2015.
there was the pond update blog but none of the actual mess, though I know I took loads of pictures.

I did look thro' your blogs to the beginning, didn't find, but enjoyed reading a selection, thanks.