kathy wrote:
Yesterday I snagged DH, left youngest son
on the sofa (ankle surgery), eldest son on
the guitar (big band event coming up) but
two out of three isn't bad!
One day in the spring I declare it is mother's
day and therefore it is time for MY projects!

We got the waterfall weeded and cleaned of stuff
that had collected there. Pulled out lilies, fertilized
them, moved jan's from the ice cream buckets to regular
black mesh baskets and built an island!

The island still needs work, a WHOLE bunch more plants
need to go in it. We build islands by stacking builder's
brick (well aged) in the pond and topping it with a black
planter that looks a bit like an oil filter.

Yesterday we put in creeping jenny and sweet potato vine
which will climb over something yet to be purchased.
I need a whole bunch more creeping jenny (does a great job
of growing over the edge and hiding the planter). Will put
some marginals in there too, would like more society garlic
if I can find it this year.

kathy :-)

Waking up the pond: it's a good feeling, isn't it? Got to mine this
weekend, doing the same sort of stuff: cleaning up dead leaves, setting
the emergents back up on blocks, starting up the waterfall (and finding
the obligatory one place where it leaks before it emptied too much of
the pond -- anyway a 10% water change is a *good* thing). Then sit back
in the sunroom in the April sunshine and enjoy the gurgle......

-- Kizhe