The pond was too ambitious a project...!
I always do this. Wake up all excited with plans to get x y and z done, and halfway through x, realize that this is definitely NOT going to be done in a day! It was TOUGH! I thought it would be an hour or so thinning out the plants, but the root mass was solid, and all the way to the bottom. It is amazing that the fish could move around at all! So it's not quite the satisfying full thriing and beautiful pond I had hoped to show you.. but at least the fish are happier with so much more room to swim around. When it's filled back up it will feel like a mansion for them. So I've thinned it out quite a lot fixed the pump. Just the fountain to repair, then do the lower pond. Realistically it might be finished in a couple of weeks if I don't get bored by then! It really has got a lot worse before it gets better. Anyway, I'll f did my best, and hopefully I'll get a chance to clear away all the stuff in the week before it rains again. It might not be the win I hoped for, but it's progress and I had a lot of fun. ๐ Hope you all had a super weekend. Feel free to share your pics/vids too!