Food for Thought-Garden Guru Salute!

                               Photo by Mia

Hey all Garden Gurus,

In a comment here I wrote  "Guru Salute to all" and then Keith asked what a Guru Salute would be, so I thought maybe we could have a fun discussion and perhaps a poll about it??? lol

So, if everybody who wants to take part put their suggestions in the comment box here, we could maybe do a Poll for it in another blog lol?

I will start out with two suggestions:  MAY THE FORK BE WITH YOU!

   and  PEAS ON EARTH!

Let's have fun with this says 

Garden Guru Gnome Mia

ANOTHER POND STORY- by Mia

Hello all Garden Gurus!

After having read Keith's great description of his garden and pond, I thought it might be of interest to tell how my partner Kevin built our pond.

The story actually started with Kevin having sold his house which had a tiny little pond with goldfish in it. We really wanted to bring some of the goldfish over, but of course had no where to put them here at my house. I think I had a chat with Keith about it and he just suggested building a pond. We decided that would be quite a good idea, after a bit of thinking. 

Here below is a pic of the fishies in transit lol (pic 1)

My front yard had a little garden bed in it with a rectangle made when the concrete was poured, so we thought of putting the pond there, as we absolutely didn't want to hack a hole in the aggregated concrete. The garden bed was no loss as it only housed a huge spiky succulent that I don't know the name of and a tired Hibiscus. So Kevin started digging those out.

Then Kevin built a box frame of treated pine timber which was larger than the hole in the ground. (See pic 2)

                                 Then he lined the edges of the concrete hole with some thick rubber matting. And created a smooth base in the bottom of the hole with sand. (Pic 3)

After that he laid in the pond liner which  was secured to the walls of the frame above the water level with some flat head nails.  (Pic 4)

Then the box frame was capped with dressed pine that was strong enough to sit on and the corners were bevelled to create a neat look. (Pic 5)

Kevin also put in two Water Lily plants and some other aquatic plants and we also added a pump with a little fountain. (See Pics 5 and 6). Gradually we added other plants to put on the edges and round the yard until we had a really lovely outdoor area, and it all started with the pond!

                           Pic 6

As many of my Photographer friends know, I have taken many pictures of this pond and it's inhabitants and the pond makes a world of difference to the feeling and ambience of our little front yard.

I hope you all enjoyed this story and please come back to me if you have any questions.

Blessings

Mia