Signs of spring
I have posted pictures of our backyard pond
before. We get a big kick out of it during the summer, when the fish and frog
are active and the lily pads bloom. Today I noticed that there is something
beginning to flower, which is really quite
bizarre.
We do take steps to keep the water from freezing, so the pond can't be compared to a real one, but this is still the earliest something like this has happened. We have had green leaves on this plant all winter. The dead leaves in the background will start rotting and sink to the bottom as soon as the water starts warming up. These ponds are pretty amazing. When we first got it we worried about Ph, etc., and we fed our fish. We found out that feeding the fish made the water cloudy, so we stopped and they did just fine. We use snails to take care of the algae that blooms in the spring. The frogs reappear like clockwork. I have no idea what they do all winter, though there's a nice bed of muck at the bottom, so maybe they dig into that.
So, anyway, a sign of spring.
We do take steps to keep the water from freezing, so the pond can't be compared to a real one, but this is still the earliest something like this has happened. We have had green leaves on this plant all winter. The dead leaves in the background will start rotting and sink to the bottom as soon as the water starts warming up. These ponds are pretty amazing. When we first got it we worried about Ph, etc., and we fed our fish. We found out that feeding the fish made the water cloudy, so we stopped and they did just fine. We use snails to take care of the algae that blooms in the spring. The frogs reappear like clockwork. I have no idea what they do all winter, though there's a nice bed of muck at the bottom, so maybe they dig into that.
So, anyway, a sign of spring.
Posted: Sunday - March 18, 2007 at 05:47 PM
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