Tried a lily pond this year...

[Thekid]

We set up a 450 gal quarantine tank for some koi we picked out from BDK (Best Koi Direct). These 5, along with the chinese hi-fin sharks, and some of the wakin goldfish will occupy the 3500 once we can fill it with enough rain water. We have several cisterns around the yard waiting on the weather.

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Is that an asagi(sp?) in the first picture?

 

[Warborg]

Some nice koi... too bad my pond project went south before my Koi got big.

 

[Oddball]

Is that an asagi(sp?) in the first picture?

Sure is. Good eye.

Top to bottom are:

Asagi

Beni Kumonryu

Butterfly Shusui

Butterfly Sanke

Sanke

 

[HumanBean]

I forgot to mention some other visitors. We have tons of lizards making use of the pond to get water and hunt insects.

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And, it's cool that many of these lizards nest in our plants. We've found newly hatched lizards and clutches of eggs around the pond plants and potted plants around the back porch.

We also have a few unwanted visitors like, 5 different wasp species, black widow spiders, chiggers, ticks, red bugs, fire ants, and mosquitos. And, we discovered early on that going barefoot around the pond or yard is a major no-no. For the reasons above and because of these guys showing up every couple of days.

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Very nice.

 

[Oddball]

My wife surprised me with a couple of new mature lilies from an AZ farm.

The snowball hardy white:



and, the 'Director Moore' purple lily:

 

[kendragon]

Very nice.
That butterfly sanke looks more like a butterfly showa.

 

[Oddball]

Found another strange visitor by the pond this morning. Nearly missed this stick insect while I was repotting water lily rhyzomes.

 

[Oddball]

We potted a new water lily from AZ Water Gardens a week ago. Today, it delighted us with its first bloom. We weren't expecting it this late in the season and from a newly potted lily.

 

[HumanBean]

My wife surprised me with a couple of new mature lilies from an AZ farm.

The snowball hardy white:

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and, the 'Director Moore' purple lily:

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Amazing colors. Beautiful

 

[Oddball]

Had an unexpected visitor by the pond today. This anole hung out in the plants for a while. We don't normally see these this time of year. Especially after a drop to the 30s and 20s in night temperatures. He must have been camping out in the bromeliads.