Happy about having a pond.

I can not even begin to express the joy I get from my new pond. It creates a pleasing landscape that relaxes any one who sits in my back yard. The water fall sound blocks out a lot of the street sounds and gently helps me fall asleep.The fish and aquatic wildlife add to the whole wildlife habitat experience and its become the center of attention to my garden. Right now it is well stocked with plants. I have Variegated Cat Tails, Louisiana Iris, Blue Flag,  Creeping Jenny, Yellow Flag, Purple Japanese Iris, Pickerel Weed, Water Hyacinth, Water Lilies, Purple Loosestrife, Hydrilla, Water Lettuce, Java Moss, Phragmites, and Chameleon Plant. The Yellow Flag, Purple Loosestrife, Phragmites, and Purple Japanese Iris are not native plants so in the future as the other plants fill in I might remove them. The Java Moss came from my fish tank and will die over winter. The Water Hyacinth and the Water Lettuce are annuals in Pennsylvania so they will also die off over the winter.I am hoping that next year I can add a few pitcher plants and one native North American Lotus.

 This is Pickerel Weed. It is a native species of aquatic plant.

Here you can see Cat tail, Iris', Water Hyacinth, Water Lettuce,Purple Loosestrife, and Water Lilies. 

 These little pieces of grass like plants are the Blue Flag I started from seed.

 A water Lily.

 The Left is Phragmites an invasive grass that will be kept in a pot to help keep it under control, and the right is Purple Japanese Iris.

 A small pot of Chameleon Plant 

 Two different kinds of Water lily.

 Yellow flag.

 Purple Loosestrife.

 Variegated Cat tail.

 Louisiana Iris.

 Water Hyacinth.

Water lettuce.

Next year I hope to add some pitcher plants and a North American Lotus.

This is Nelumbo lutea, a North American Lotus.

Sarracenia purpurea, Northern Pitcher Plant.

 

Northern Pitcher Plant in flower.

Close up of Northern Pitcher Plant flower.