Ponding lends itself to a strange craving for more. More fish, more
plants, more room, more decorations, more knowledge, more people to look
at your hard work and heap tons of praise and show their envy without
reservation.
This winter we spent our time divided between moaning about winter and
looking at pond pages and pond related items on the net. Our moaning
accomplished nothing but our surfing created a file of helpful tips and
information. Our internet pond journey also created a want list
about a mile and a half long. Our main desire was more plants.
Some of the water plants are simply breath taking. This urge caused
two main problems. First, there was no possible way to cram all the
plants we wanted into our pond at it's current size. Secondly,
if we only picked out a few that we just had to have, it seemed likely
that we would never see the fish due to the foliage.
Our solution to both problems was to purchase a preformed pond that would
mainly contain plants and have 2 or three goldfish. After we got the
pond home the place we had picked out for it seemed inadequate. If
we moved it we could also build an area around it to put MORE PLANTS! We picked a different spot with more room. This
spot was also closer to the concrete pond - hey! a waterfall!
The concept was simple enough. Put the small pond above the big
pond, surround with a wall, connect with a waterfall, and pump the water
from the concrete pond up to the small pond. The application,
however, turned out to be the norm for us. Three trips for
blocks. One trip to find out that we already had the right pump
filter size and didn't need to make the trip. One trip to buy one to
many bags of concrete. And of course we are trying like heck to get
the water to fall into the concrete pond not dribble around the bottom of
the falls.
