OMG!!! Daniellalell Your Pond Is Nice.!!!LOL That White Fish
Looks Like A Large Whale!!! He Is Huge.!!! Very Nice Now i see
Myself Getting The Pond Fever. I Already have Critters Carring
Off My Brugs I Will Be Afraid Some Coon Will Show Up And Eat My Fish. Well i Will Do Some Researching First.

Chocolate Brug

Thank you CB, :)
lmao CB, I have coons..already wreaking havoc on the pond, last year they ate quite a few of my fish b4 I had the bigger deeper pond. This morning there was a Turkey Vulture out there checking out my fish!!! ACK!! lol.
That Koi in there was only 4" when I got him last July, I think it was..maybe the end of June. Now he is over 14" hard to tell exactly cuz he's bigger than my 1' ruler, lol.
I will be setting the live traps for the coons, the one I have seen is a huuuuge monster!
As long as your pond is deep enuf and the fish have a place to hide, the coons wont get em..Gotta watch out for Herons and other birds as well...I didnt know I had to watch out for Turkey Vultures till today..turns out they DO eat fish!

I just love your pond. Did you do the whole thing yourself? What are the pretty little pink and white flowers in the first pic?

Wonder if there is any netting or cages available to put
around the pond to help keep the vultures out.
would be nice if you can Incorporate some type Guard to help
protect your investment. !!!!

Chocolate Brug

Thanks Karyn, yes I did the whole thing all by my lonesome lil self. lol. Not complaining, I like it that way! Hopefully this week I will make a skimmer for it, to hook the pump up to, ya know like a pool skimmer to catch everything that falls onto the surface. Between the cherry tree blossoms, helicopters from the Maple, and things from other trees, I am skimming it with the old pool net like 5-10 times a day!
Those are Mossy Saxifragas. I love 'em. This is my first year with them, but they are supposedly evergreen & spread nicely, and I love that the blooms change colors so there are always dif colors on the plants. They start out bright red, then lighten as they age to almost white. And they're very drought tolerant, which is always a good thing, lol.

CB, yes they do make netting..someone on the pond forum recommended fruit tree netting to me, its the same exact thing as pond netting, but ALOT cheaper. Goes right over the surface of the water. Anything labeled for ponding is expensive. I will prob get a net for the fall, but the netting is kinda ugly..you cant see it from a distance, but you can close up, its pretty obvious. Anyway, during spring summer and fall, my pond plants are there, and I dont wanna have to cut holes in the netting ya know?

I just have to let my dog out to scare off anything that might come a-creepin, lol. Except in the middle of the night when the nocturnal ones are out and about. They are what I am worried about most..I had to go into the pond the other day cuz something knocked in a a flagstone from the side. I do have fencing around the pond, and the whole garden, but thats mainly to keep the kids and dogs out. The dog learned quicker than the kids, lol..even if the gates open, she wont go in, the other dog is blind so he doesnt know. The kids yet again went running through the garden the other day playing tag, and my son broke a flower pot..as punishment, since he didnt get hurt, that would have been punishment enuf, I made him buy me a new one. He's 13 he should have known better. *sigh* kids. lol

VERY nice daniellalell...LOVE the pond :)

Daniellalell !!!!LoL That's Tough Love Making Your Son
Buy You Another Pot. But One Thing for Sure He Wont BE Breaking Another One.!!! Ok Keep Talking Daniellalell

I Will Be At The Pond Store Shortly. That's all i needed to here that there is a netting available.
Very Convincing

Now Tell Me What Are You Feeding That KOI!! Wow, they grows
as fast as brugs Do. He Has To Be Eating More Than Just Flakes.!!!

Chocolate Brug

LOL I HOPE he wont be breaking another one. I felt really bad taking the money, but he has to learn.
Koi do grow very fast and veeery big. Mine is only a year old, not even, and not even close to full grown. I feed the Koi & goldfish Tetra Care PondFood Floating Pond Sticks..they float, and soften up real fast so they can digest it easier. Right now he's living on algae, its an important part of their diet, and I think I read it helps with their colors? When the weather warms up more & pond water temps are above 55 regularly I will start feeding with the pellets again. When the water is too cold, they can't digest properly, and it could kill them. When I am in the garden I throw him slugs, worms, grubs, japanese beetles (he doesnt care for them much), anything I find that won't hurt him to eat. He had a grub picnic the other day, lol. We love hand feeding him worms.
The pond forum here on GW is a wealth of information. I researched for almost 9 months before I started mine, learning everything I could about building it, the upkeep, what to do and not to do, etc. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have, just holler!
It's alot of work, but I think it's well worth it. I love my pond.

Daniella great job hooking CB into ponds rofl

ALL your pictures are great to see that you are having a great time out there. The 3rd picture, are those forget me nots?

Of course you did such a great job on redoing the pond. It looks so natural with the waterfalls.

But there was one picture missing.

YOU and your boots roflmao

Lucy

Thank you, Lucy..lol isnt that part of the addiction? getting others hooked? hehehe!! I will help in any way I can! Now, Lucy..are YOU going to do a pond this year?
Yes the third pic is indeed forget-me-nots, love those lil guys.
lol, I tried to find my boot pic 4 ya, but I dont know what album it's in. I looked thru a few hundred pix and then gave up, lol. I loooove my boots! The only recent pix I have were taken by my 5 yr old (who has recently become obsessed with the camera) and I dare not share any of those..they always seem to be focused either on my boobs, or up my nose or both, as I'm walking by, lmao. Then theres always.."Open your mouth real big so I can take a picture of your guts" lol..aaaahhh, the brain of a 5 yr old.

Roflmao, pic of your guts. That cracked me up. I love love love your pond. It looks really great! I'm gonna come kidnap you to make me a real one, lol.

Daniella~ Your flowers are looking good and so are your brug seedlings.As for your pond it is really nice and your koi seem to be really happy with their home.

Rigo

Daniella I would get one in a heartbeat just like a GH. But then I would have to find a new husband roflmao
I do not have him there yet, that he goes for those 2 things. Come time..come pond and GH lol

See...it only takes me years to identify a plant here and there lol

But I am organizing the photos I uploaded from the camera to the new PC into seperate folders of each species...and I am amazed at myself roflmao

Lucy

Fantastic job Daniella! The flagstone looks very nice. I too was going to ask about the first pix, and say that the bloom resembled the strawberry bloom! I like the little turtle on top of the one fall like it's crossing over. Hope you can keep all the critters away from your fish and plants.