My orchid pond.

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by Vanda lover

That is interesting. I have noticed differences in the personality between the koi and goldfish. Koi are less aggressive, less likely to eat their young and less likely to pick on sick or injured fish. Koi also become much tamer. Mine let me pet them.

Indeed.
Although I've noticed the round bodied goldfish are less aggressive.

My indoor goldfish let me pet them. It's kinda cute lol.

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[Ordphien]

So I think that the lip turning red means the flower will drop soon.
Not surprising, bit a nice way to go out. With an explosion of color.

Here's that same flower today.


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[Vanda lover]

It is nice that they change colour like that. I have a rose that is like that. It starts yellow, then orange, red and finally pink before it drops. All the colours on the same plant looks cool.

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by Vanda lover

It is nice that they change colour like that. I have a rose that is like that. It starts yellow, then orange, red and finally pink before it drops. All the colours on the same plant looks cool.

It is nice...
I have a rose that does that as well.
A Denver mini rose.
I love plants that color change.

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[Vanda lover]

Have you seen the water lilies that change colour?
They range from creamy yellow through orange tones and end up sort of magenta red.

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by Vanda lover

Have you seen the water lilies that change colour?
They range from creamy yellow through orange tones and end up sort of magenta red.

I have!
Sioux water Lily comes to mind.
Not enough sun here though.
I need a semi dwarf or dwarf shade tolerant Lily.

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[Vanda lover]

Originally Posted by Ordphien

I have!
Sioux water Lily comes to mind.
Not enough sun here though.
I need a semi dwarf or dwarf shade tolerant Lily.

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That is a problem. Water lilies do like sun. I didn't know there were shade tolerant ones.

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by Vanda lover

That is a problem. Water lilies do like sun. I didn't know there were shade tolerant ones.

They do indeed.
Shade tolerant is used loosely.
The usual 6-8 hours of sun drops to 4-6 for the shade tolerant varieties.
I think when summer is in full swing the pond gets roughly 4 hours of direct sun. And dappled light the test of the day.
Not sure what my approach will be.
Might just buy locally and hope for the best, or special order online.
Pondmegastore have is a few problems but in the end I received a beautiful water lily that came with around 7 flower buds.
Might go with them again.


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[Ordphien]

On a more orchid related note.
Thinking of purchasing some NOID catts and trying them around my pond.
What do you guys think?
Can they handle the winter?


Also... I got sad looking at a pond with no brightly coloured fish.
So I broke while buying cat food and bought three comet goldfish.
A whopping $1 total.
Technically ones a sarassa, and the others a shubunkin.
But I don't really expect PetsMart to know that the colouring changes the name.
I'll try to get pictures tomorrow.
They aren't the most exciting fish but...
Very pretty nonetheless.

The rest of the available fish space after going to be watonai from a breeder in hawaii I think.

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[Vanda lover]

I don't know about the Catts because I don't know your climate like you do, but the fish sound nice. I love the shubunkins. I once had a good quality one that got quite big. It was beautiful with all that blue.