#pond plants

[classic-asian-art]

Carp Among Pond Plants by Ryuryukyo Shinsai (1800, Zeichnung)

[maysoulrose]

This is Vasilisa the Beautiful. A Russian fairytale, from a beautifully animated film I grew up watching and hold dear to my heart.

I love the art style so much, I tried to incorporate it into my piece here, while still adding my personal style and flairs to it!

I really loved mimicking this style with all the shapes and details. It was really relaxing just throwing in whatever I felt like. I also LOVE drawing water like this!!! Just squished ovals all over hehe.

I drew this with the intension of using it as an embroidery guide... so hopefully I'll do that!

Also, upon looking for my first fanart I did, I found that I did it exactly 10 years ago! It's nice to see my progress as an artist <3

If you want to watch the Soviet film it's here on youtube! There's probably English subtitles, but I just listen to it as it is and enjoy the visual storytelling.

[weepingfoxfury]

The Sunday man on the radio is not the usual man on the radio. How will we know ourselves? So far Cat Stevens is chasing moon shadows, Frank Sinatra has some advice on love and marriage and Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong have gone fishing. Weatherwise there's damp, followed by more damp, aaaand 'blink' that was the sunshine.

Today's groaner: I went running with my Bible ... Now my Psalms are all sweaty ;-D badoom tish ... here all week!!

The plants that were standing so proudly all round the water butt succumbed to the current heavy rain and winds and are all now taking a swim. The snails are delighted ... makes a tasty chompy change from the usual dead debris dinners.

One day I'll get up, go look at the water butt and there'll be a whole host of mini snail boats tacking back and forth ... a restaurant will have sprung up ... and there'll be tiny little billboards advertising the butt as 'the' go to place for all gastropods. (Shakes head and smiles) ... thankfully they're not as crazy as us hoomans ... (tilts head) ... but you never know.

Time for more coffee and the usual this, that and the other. Then later, as there's nothing on the TV but sport (which I hate), I'll be digging through my DVDs. It'll be as much a surprise to me as anyone else what I end up watching ...

[honeyedlens]

Tranquil Pond

Sept 2018

by Brie Thomson

[alteredstatesstuff]

small pond

[greencoding]

[uniqueperson8]

[rumade]

[Video description: me showing off my Sagittaria latifolia AKA broadleaf arrowhead or wapato or duck potato; growing in the pond in my parents' garden]

Ponds can be kitchen gardens too- there's a not insignificant number of edible aquatics that are worth growing. I chose to try and cultivate this one because it was mentioned in Eric Tosenmier's Edible Perennials book.

Be very careful with aquatic plants that are not native to your area. They can cause a huge amount of damage to the wider ecosystem if they escape.

[unrulysynergy]

Water Lily!

The little water lily I bought, Nymphaea 'Colonel A. J . Welch' (terrible name)

The same type of water lily in a pond at the Botanic Gardens - proper lily pads, just like a frog would sit on in a cartoon.

The interwebs said this kind needs 1.5m deep water to flower, but there's a flower in this pond and its only 1 foot at the most, so apparently a shallow pond will work.

[aisphotostuff]

Nymphaea William Falconer Deep Red Water Lily by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Free flowering, beautiful cup shaped, rich deep red flowers(diameter 16 cms) with burgundy-red stamens, in flower from June to September

[tinyurbanwilderness]

Wildlife ate my pond plants last year so I had to fence it in this year. It’s not so beautiful from a distance but up close it is. #nativeplants #aquaticplants #gardenpond

[tonytomeo]

Coy Koi

The larger of two koi is difficult to see at the center of this picture. The other is rarely seen. Attempts to tame the recently discovered but still unidentified pair of koi within the drainage pond have been futile so far. Both remain elusive. Although the larger of the two is almost as big as Rhody, we still are not certain if they are actually a koi. We just do not know what else they could…

[rosechata]

clivenichols

[weepingfoxfury]

The man on the radio is not the usual man on the radio. Today's man on the radio is the man who likes pushing random buttons ... whilst the usual man on the radio is at Bord Bia Bloom festival to look at and talk about all things gardening. The traffic lady came and went twice, both times out of earshot ... I assume she talked of all things traffic.

Today's weather is dismal ... this hooman is startled at being upright .... need to keep the coffee coming. Captain Blackbeard is headed for the vet today for his usual injections to add a little pep to his step. 12 years old and still plays like a kitten.

Today's groaner: why did Adele cross the road? To say hello from the other side. Badoom tish ... here all week!

Reflections on the water ... the view from the cat bridge ... the littlest of oceans, the largest of drinking bowls ... Signor Floyd always preferred his morning aperitif from here ... I wonder if the watery wildlife will miss his dipping into their world ...

[qfabraywrites]

Landscape Columbus

Design ideas for a large traditional partial sun backyard stone water fountain landscape in summer.

[lovehina019]