My water garden

Mary Mary Quite Contrary

My water garden

My ponds are my special place. I love to sit by them and just enjoy the little ecosystem that we have created.

Right off my front porch and

next to the side walk for all our visitors to enjoy

The birds favorite spot

Both pretty and functional

Birds of all colors and descriptions come to drink and bathe adding their colors and textures to the scene.

Yellow water lillies

Each year I repot the water lilies that have been preserved in the fridge over the winter, add some floating plants and pots of irises and cattails. This year I have 7 different varieties of water lilies between the two ponds.

Cattails also called Bullrushes

They keep over winter sunken to the lowest level of the pond

This perfect pink bloom is one of my favorites

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These little blackberry lillies are so precious

After they are done blooming the seed pods look like blackberries.

This is the flower of a water hyacinth

Water hiacynth float on top of the pond

A bounty of blessings

A pretty black-eyed Susan.

The Koi are my favorite. I like having as many varieties and colors as I can find and add a few "gotta have 'ems" each year. My two big guys are 5 years old and about 16 or 17 inches long.

We just call him "Big Guy"

Always hungry they eat many times a day

Of course it is always my pleasure to oblige.

We always enjoy the toads that come to lay their eggs at least 3 different times in the spring and early summer. They are noisy and raucous but so full of life. My grandkids call it "toad love"

A few days after they lay their eggs and have gone, we are left with millions of tiny wiggling algae eating tadpoles or pollywogs.

The children enjoy watching them grow chubby and fat, get legs and eventually hop out of the pond as miniature toads.

In honor of my mother she is "Ellie by the Pond"

Can you see the Dragon fly by of her face?

Lighthouses are another passion of mine

This one found it's way out to watchover the pond.

Another beautiful Western Wisconsin

I hope you enjoy getting a glimpse of my water world as much as I do. The serenity and beauty of all the creators’ handiworks fill my heart. And as we go through yet another cold and dreary winter these pictures bring me hope and joy of the promises to come.

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Water is pumped from the lower pond to the upper one and is cleaned refreshed and recycled by way of a series of streams and water falls.

Koi and goldfish inhabit both ponds as well as numerous aquatic plant and animal life.

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The lower pond and water fall

The water falls

In the lower pond

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Deep pink water lillies

Yellow Iris

Very hardy and a beautiful addition to the ponds

Triple Blessings

Can you believe how beautiful these are?

This is the first year I had so many bloom at one time

Babies Babies Babies

Growing and getting big.

Every year we get new baby goldfish that are 'born' in the ponds and they are a never ending source of colors, spots and variety. One of the parents at least is blue with a few red and black dappling as some of the babies look just like him but most are orange gold white or a combination of all three. Some of them we name and are claimed by the grand children as their own personal favorite fish.

Pollywogs or Tadpoles do their job

To keep the ponds clean and clear.

In trying to get a picture of some of the pretty things around my pond I believe I accidentally captured a dragon fly in the image as it flew past.

Though a beautiful and welcome addition to the ambiance of the pond its offspring the dragon fly nymph is an ugly fellow with a habit of eating baby fish and is not very welcome. Still they are beautiful as adults and we were privledged to watch one crawl out of the pond attach itself to our step and change in a few hours from ugly creature to a beautiful dragon fly. Another thing that we can learn from nature.

This is my veiw from the swing on my deck

Many evenings I can be found sitting near the pond in my porch swing relaxing to a quiet sunset and the end to another warm beautiful Western Wisconsin summer day, enjoying a bedtime snack of delicious dark sweet cherries.




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