Showing posts with label black dragon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black dragon. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 September 2015

First Autumn Tidy Up - 26/9/2015


A selection of photos taken
during the first Autumn pond tidy up.

I had a tidy up of the little wildlife pond,
cutting back the Iris plants and splitting one
of the Scirpus Cernuus plants into two pots.

Wildlife Pond Project #1
after a tidy up.

One half of the Scirpus Cernuss repotted.

The other half of the Scirpus Cernuus.

My Wife planted
a couple of Black Dragons,
from another plant which had multiplied.


I divided the Scirpus cernuus
in the bigger pond too.

That's a total of three in the big pond now.
These should provide good cover
for the frogs next year.

Wildlife Pond Project #2
after a tidy up.

Wildlife Pond Project #1 and #2

Wildlife Project #1 and the Bug Hotel.


I've resisted thinning out the elodea crispa
as keeping it the pond stops the leaves that
fall in from sinking to the bottom.

This is a lesson I learnt the hard way last year.

A view of the hairgrass plant which
provided cover the tadpoles in Spring.


This is where some of the
young frogs have been hanging out,
in the long grass next to the old bike shed.

Friday, 3 April 2015

Pond Activity - 03/4/2015


Having had proof that the frogspawn
is developing, I have to wait patiently
for the tadpoles to emerge.

I just hope and pray that 
the snails don't eat it all first.


I feel like getting rid of the snails, 
but that would be interfering with nature.


As you can see, they're
really getting to work on it.


I'm thinking of getting some new pond plants
 but I haven't decided what to get yet.


Whatever plants I do decide to get,
they'll definitely be native ones.


The pond water is murky at the moment.


The water will soon clear.


The black dragon plants we added
last year are doing okay and appear
to have grown a little.


The Armeria maritima
plants are doing well too.


The Yellow Flag Iris multiplied
 in the smaller wildlife pond.


Soon the Yellow Flags
will dwarf this little pond.

Sunday, 4 May 2014

Pond Border Plants - 04/5/2014


Originally the plan was to have several Heathers growing in the pebble border around this pond. Sadly the Heathers died within weeks of planting so today we finally got round to adding some ornamental grasses and flowering plants instead. Hopefully these will become bushy over time and break up the border as was originally intended.

Armeria maritima
'Alba'

Digging a hole for the first flowering plant

Armeria maritima
'Alba'

Armeria maritima
 'Alba'

Digging a hole for the second flowering plant

Carex comans
'Frosted Curls'

Ophiopogon
'Black Dragon'

Ophiopogon
'Black Dragon'

Ophiopogon
'Black Dragon'

Mentha aquatica
'Water Mint'

Mentha aquatica
'Water Mint'

The view across the pond

A pigeon watching over the work below

The finished result