Re: [GSAS-Member] water gardens?

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

One of my new water lilies (Paul Heriot - from Moorehaven) has a big huge
bud, so hopefully it will open soon and I'll take a photo of one of my
newly set-up watergardens then. Yes, I'd LOVE to see what others are doing
OUTSIDE!

Betty Goetz

> I think EVERYBODY should send in a photo of their pond or water garden -
> kind of an
> end-of-summer thing (the newsletter comes out at the end of this month so
> act quickly).
>
> Clay- I've got a bunch of koi that range up to 3 inches, and then a few
> oddballs up to
> twenty inches.
>
>
>
> --- Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com> wrote:
>
>> I really really would love to see what others have done. I want to put a
>> largish (bigger than anything else I have right now) above-ground water
>> garden in where I can do some of the larger hardy waterlilies.  I'm
>> thinking something built out of 6 x 6" timbers. Rectangular.
>>
>> I'll send Steev a photo of one of my current water gardens taken back at
>> my old house about 3 years ago. Back then it was mostly parrot feather
>> (not the red-stemmed kind) and duckweed. And breeding goldfish. In the
>> photo, you can kinda see one of the orange goldfish but I really was
>> taking a picture of Barr (my Siberian). I got the black half-barrel at
>> DeYoung's in Woodinville about 10 years ago....wish I'd gotten MORE than
>> the 3 I bought at the time.
>>
>> Betty Goetz
>>
>> > I think a presentation on outdoor ponds would be a fantastic topic.
>> >
>> > Clay
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Steev Ward [mailto:steevward@yahoo.com]
>> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:04 PM
>> > To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
>> > Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] water gardens?
>> >
>> > Traditionally our club has always included outdoor interests as well,
>> > and there are certainly people who keep outdoor aquariums in addition
>> to
>> > water gardens and ponds. I can't really draw a line between my outdoor
>> > and indoor aquatic lfe - it goes back and forth too much. I've got koi
>> > babies indoors in a 55 gallon, a 75 gallon, and outdoors as well. The
>> > weather loach goes outside for the summer, and so do a few water
>> plants
>> > and daphnia.
>> >
>> >
>> > Steev
>> > P.S. If anybody is interested in some koi let me know.
>> >
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