Above: Yellow Hardy Water Lily (Pygmaea helvola)

Nile Grass	Hyacinth and Lily Bud The purple lily is a "Tina"

Umbrella Grass	Our favorite garden stone because life is so good!

First Day Open New Hardy Lily	My newest water plant, added July 1, 1999 is the Parrot Feather, an oxygenator.

Water cabbage - added 7/3/999.	Parrot Feather, an oxygenator, added 7/1/99.

	When I visited Plants & Things, the owner offered me two tadpoles, which I enthusiastically put in my tub. Now I have wildlife! (Postscript) Well, I did have wildlife... The racoons found them; now all I have is a few snails... don't know how they got in except maybe piggy-back on some of the plants I added.
View from the Top 7/3/99

During the year 2000 the garden survived, but didn't fluorish. I added two fishes and they survived over the next winter. The lilies never bloomed - I don't know why. Still, it looked nice with the variety of flowers around it.

After surviving the terribly dry and hot summer of 2000, two lilies bloomed at once in May of 2001. It was their swan song. Two nights later, the raccoons attacked. They killed my four goldfish, and shredded all of the vegitation while trying to find them. The lily's pots were knocked over the the lilies pulled out. It was a muddy mess! I repotted them, but am waiting to thoroughly clean out the pond and start over.

For more about the continuing saga of our water garden and more up-to-date photos,
please click on "Whatever Happened to My Water Garden".

	Constructing Our First Water Garden
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