Zone 11a, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, is where we live. My mother and I have been in the watergarden industry for over 35 years. Our forte is the PLANTS for your pond, not the building or deigning of it, BUT the CARE of ponds and the plants within it. Mum had a nursery called Waterlily Acres but all things pass as time moves on, and now we have started this RU-vid channel called TangleMIRE Gardens so that our knowledge could be passed on. This channel is going to be about our above ground ponds and two gardens, my mother's and my own. There are lot of unfinished projects to be completed on both properties. My garden is a suburban block backing onto a park. My mother's is acreage backing on to a major motorway with a watercourse running through it. As these gardens grow, I thought you might like to come on the journey and see what goes on in these jumbled environments of ours. Please enjoy your visits here. Take care. Nicola and Sheila
Congratulations on a job well done... I was worn out watching you... Now and again I caught a glimpse of the rescue flowers you put in a couple of months ago, I may have missed a video of them flowering ... you put in pieces of cardboard to protect some of them from excess water
Hello Christina, I hope your gardens is looking brilliant. Yes I remember that video, the plants are doing ok. I think I will have to move some of them. The area is soo dry. I have already had to move the petuna down the back where it is wetter.
@@TanglemireGardens-ni8vz I don’t believe so but you can just buy normal female mollys and they can breed or you might even be able to find female sail fin mollys if you google male and female Mollys you will be able to see what to look for
I love moths I have a wild garden I let bugs eat but I do get mad at some if they gang up and attack my plant. Most just come nibble and move on. Except this year the slugs are eating a few (wet summer) I love foxglove plants but they don't return the next yr for me so I just plant it in pots.
I have heard it is a bad year for slugs. I suppose those slug traps made from pots might help. I must admit that i do nor, knock on wood, have soo many caterpillars that it bothers me.
^^ ponds are just big outdoor-aquariums:))) having a big layer of sand and some gravel on the bottom is a good biofilter.... even "if" the sand is not fresh from a river... beneficial bacteria will start to grow there over time and provide a more stable water biology. good video. getting a bucket of mud from a nearby healthy river or small stream can of course accelerate this and provide some additional lifeforms that will help keep everything in balance.
@@TanglemireGardens-ni8vz Oh some bigger rocks so that fish eggs can fall into the crevices^^... do not know if this is something "pond-guys" would do... I just have a smaller aquarium and started one of those little ponds in a big zement bucket on the balcony as you can really breed some nice fish over the summer time. fish and plants go hand in hand so well... and/or small shrimp
@@philxdev So true about the plants and small shrimp. In the cideo I am doing know it is about moving one of my ponds that has shrimp in it. I am amazed how they survived after their rough treatment. I don't put rocks in my ponds unless they are for goldfish ( we do not have koi in Queensland - illegal). I only use river sand. I use pond plants for fish to lay their eggs in, but I mainly deal with live bearing fish in all of my ponds (except of course the gold fish).
Great job! Looks awesome! But curious to know what you ended up doing with the snail egg? Did you leave it on the plant? Was it a water snail egg? If yes are water snails a friend or foe 🤔
Thank you for the compliment. Yes I left them there. They are water snails. Granted as I do not know who they are. I am unsure if they are friend or foe for my lotus and Nymphodies which is all I am worried about in that pond. In other ponds it would be the waterlilies I would be worried about. Some water snails will eat young waterliles, others do not. If I find them to be the wrong type I will use thin slices of cucumber to remove them.
