I made a little more progress in the garden today. The ‘pond’, such as it is has been sitting patiently waiting for the cement around the edge to go ‘off’ since last week when the builder eventually turned up. I sealed the plug and the overflow and it had started to collect rain water but today I decided it was time to move things on a bit. So I took a trip to the garden centre and bought some native pond plants, some aquatic compost and aquatic baskets to put it all in.
First I set all the plants out so I could see what there was, then I tried to make little platforms so that the plants could go at different depths, they were all labelled so I could see which ones went at the deepest part and which ones were supposed to sit at the waters edge.
Then it was just a case of planting and filling the bath up a bit more with tap water. I found the whole thing a bit messy and a lot more difficult than potting ordinary plants in garden containers. As I began to put more water in my main worry was that the water just looked like mud.
I decided to only half fill it and then go check on it in the morning to see if the mud settles and if the water clears itself. I hope it does because I don’t have a clue how to make the water less muddy if it doesn’t just clear of its own accord.
Once I put enough water in to cover the base of baskets I threw in the little bits of floating plants that are supposed to oxygenate the water.
Having done that, I turned my attention to the new ‘rockery’ and emptied a huge bag of compost all over it. I emptied a few of my containers on top and planted the contents as best I could.
Some of my containers seemed to have dried up a little and the plants were not doing so well, so I thought maybe they would thrive a bit better in the rockery. Once I finished I realised I probably need another couple of bags of compost thrown over it but at least I made a start.
To finish my afternoon/ evening I planted three new containers of lavender, well you just can’t have too much lavender in a garden. And then I headed back indoors, I do hope my water clears overnight.
