Showing posts with label hyacinth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hyacinth. Show all posts

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Koi Pond 2008

Hugh is still keeping his koi pond. He even found a baby koi in there yesterday. No, I didn't get a picture.

Earlier in the season some of the waterlillies were blooming. A white one:


And a red one:


This is a water hyacinth - they float with their roots in the water instead of in soil.


Boy, oh, boy, THAT was a lesson in not putting things off. I passed by the pond one day and saw one hyacinth in full bloom. And even though that I should get a picture of that but I put it off. Next day it rained and I didn't want to take my camera outside and the day after that, the bloom was done. ::::sigh::::

We also have a few frogs hanging around.

Frog #1:


Frog #2:


And, yes, there are still koi in the pond :-)

Here is a black and orange one eating:


And an orange one eating. It is hard to get a decent picture of the fish just swimming around, so koi eating pics are a little more numerous:


And "Skull Head" eating.


"Skill Head" is mostly white, but the markings on his head makes it look like a skull:


The fish not only like fish food, but they like algae. Apparently, they like it alot :-)