I have creeping jenny, sedum, and artimesia to trade. Lots of each, let me know!

Thanks! Bunky, do you have any pics of your pond you would like to share? I'm very torn on what to do with mine. Here is a photo...I have started planting flowers on the left (by the fence)...but not sure if I should just continue to mow it or make it a wildflower field...the bank is too steep to mow so I'm weed whacking it more often than I'd like. We can grade it out with tractor, but there goes all the sod we laid last year! I don't know!

I will take photos this afternoon. It's pretty dark back there now. Ours is 15 foot round and the deepest part (Center) is 3 ft deep. It's over 20 years old and is surrounded by rocks from the woods, ivy and yellow archangel. The filter is one I made from a huge round tub, and is filled with bio balls, the pads from floor cleaners (I used to work at a retail store and got them there) and thick netting. I have a large pump that pumps the water down a small waterfall at the top of the biological filter. I know it's not professional, but it's kept the water biologically correct, my fish are happy and so am I. I had over 35 koi and goldfish in two years ago but the blue heron finally found my pond and took care of over half of them. There were over 4 generations in there! The ones that are left are finally starting to come to feed from my hand again....it took a year for the trauma of that bird to get them to trust shadows again!

My main regret is where the pond is. It's beautiful in it's environment; however, it has a large canapy of trees now (they DO grow) and it doesn't let a lot of light through. It's a cool and peaceful spot though, and on a hot day is great to sit by and dream! Too much sun wouldn't have worked for me, as I hate to sit in the hot sun and it causes tons of algea (of which I have little: the fish eat what there is). But on the other hand I can't have pond lilies in there as there is not enough sun, and once again, the koi love tearing them apart!

Our area where we have the pond is flat. I will send pics later.

Photos of the pond were downloaded to my photos.

Beautiful. Thanks for taking the time to share that with me! So peaceful.

Strawberries should work and give you the pleasure of eating them.

I was just admiring your pond...and stopped to say...what a dream!