Pond updates June 2016(last pic)

I think your pond looks really lovely, Stera. And no messy bits to be seen!

Seriously, it is very pretty. Aren't the water lilies beautiful?

I love your pond :) It will look pretty as the plants get established.
Nice that the Ragged Robin has appeared on its own. I hope it stays ...

Its coming on a treat ,well done :o)

I love the cobbles amongst the large stones.

Thank you everybody. The cobbles were the pond man's idea. It's surprising how the marginals will grow there with hardly any soil as the liner goes right under the cobbles.

Its doing well Stera, I love it and at the rate the lilies are growing you'll soon have plenty of shade covering the water so that will sort itself, I like the natural look, you must be really pleased with it, I have always thought that fish will only grow to the size of their surroundings, when you consider the sizes of acquariums and how long fish manage in them I don't think you need to worry yet a while...

Lovely that you have some fish in your pond Stera. It looks really lovely with all the plants around. Your water lily is flowering early. Nice lots of spaces too where the wildlife can get in and out of the water.

What's the name of the Lily you have in the pond?! And it all looks lovely!!

Thanks Sue - I'm sure you;re right about the ifsh. It willbe while before they get big anyway. The water is too green to see them at present - barley straw not had much effect so far.

Thank you Lindak. I went mad and bought two new ferns today, making five altogether. They are so lovely at this time of year!

Sorry Dan, it didn't have a name on it when we got it. But there are loads of beautiful pink ones. There is a much smaller dainty pale pink one at the other end of the pond but it hasn't got a bud yet. I think the one in the pic might be too vigorous for your pond.

All your efforts were definitely worthwhile Stera it all looks so natural and that pink lily with its bronze leaf is a beauty.

I remember Charlie Dimmock saying that a pond will clear naturally after its second Spring. I found that to be the case with my barrel, on the couple of occasions I had to refill it, so you might find your pond clears next year. Mine is crystal clear now.

Thanks Melchi - I'm sure it will clear but its hard waiting!
Stroller, thank you!

the pond will clear in about 4-8 weeks without any intervention. once the lilies start covering the surface and the plant growth uses the nutrients in the water.

Just a thought...I have a tub with two goldfish in and Gerry was looking out of the window to see a Magpie attacking one of the fish on the floor. Now whether the fish had jumped out of the water in fright, or the Magpie had got it out I don't know. It was damaged but still breathing so Gerry bought it indoors and we put it in a bowl of water to get the dirt off. When it had recovered a bit after about 5 minutes he placed it back into the tub and we placed a net over the top. Gerry put some special aquatic antiseptic cleaner into the water to try to help the fish. The fish is still alive this morning and swimming round with the other one.

p.s. I have just seen the Magpie with the same goldfish in it's beak, thrashing it about, trying to get if from under the netting!!! Gerry has been out there putting lots of high plants and shrubs all around the pond to try to stop this bird. MAGPIES DO CATCH FISH.

That's amazing!!! Perhaps you'll need to lower the water level a bit and use chicken wire or something instead of a net...I hope you beat the rascal.

I have a magpie problem too! It's fine when the plants are growing and covering the surface!

Well well - we live and learn. We often see a pair of magpies in the garden but if they can see any fish they are doing better than me...

I've never known this behaviour from Magpies before. Have they been watching the herons?????

it is something I remember from childhood. they would take sticklebacks from the brook near to where I lived.
easy pickings for them.

Well I've never heard that they could do that Seaburngirl. I've certainly learned something this week,
and the little devils are still trying to get to the rim of the pond even though we've made it a bit like fort Knox with the plants.

Oh dear now I'm wondering if the biddy magpies were to blame when my frogspawn went missing, if you remember even though they'd never done it before I blamed the dogs when it all went missing, the magpies are always attacking the nests in the hawthorn hedge at the bottom of our garden, I try to discourage them but they soon come back, there was right kerfuffle going on in the skies on Sunday, loads of birds having a battle but I could not make out what the bird was that was actually being chased away, a kite or sparrow hawk we think, it was driven high up into the clouds, a bit like a scene from the movie The Birds.....

Perhaps a buzzard? They escape mobbing by circling upwards as they don't seem to be able to fly fast enough to "run"away.

Hi Linsclass. We live high on a hill near to the countryside and we have Buzzards flying over and it's usually the crows that mob it.

Its rooks here, and we once saw ravens doing it too!

Pond looking good.. I've added this blog to GoYpedia. :o)

Oh wow, thank you! Never been in Goypedia before!

Ha ha .. and now you have this blog on two categories !
Rocks and Stones is a new page I asked Peter to make for me quite recently. :o)

Good gracious - it never rains but it pours! Rocks and stones sounds a bit like a pop festival!

Ha ha ... as long as there are no Lily Beatles ;o)

Lol, you get worse Terra...

:o)

Magpies are horrible! I had always thought that they only kill for food or when they've got young but not so, I've seen them kill a whole brood of young ducks by beheading them for no reason at all.

How's the pond doing this year? Did you get more tadpoles? Did the fish survive?