Saturday morning is usually a recovery period from the working week that's just gone past, a period when it's not always easy to make a decision on anything definite to do in the garden. Or even whether to go somewhere else instead or not unless there was something arranged beforehand.
Sometimes the best antidote to a cloudy head is an aimless walk in the garden first thing in the morning. And last Saturday I found myself wandering down towards the pond on the bottom patio.
Hmmmm....that Gunnera tinctoria is waking up nicely and looking good....
Which made me then think that it's been quite awhile since I last walked on the edge of this pond. And there are views of the garden whilst stood on it that are a treat by virtue of how infrequent I stand on it.
Knickers of course just had to follow...
Now my eyes wander, first this Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Rex' growing on the bed behind the pond is waking up nicely and looking good.
Then a quick look back on to the Gunnera which is now below my line of vision rather than level with it.
And then I spot the Clematis armandii vigorously growing on the pergola which was then opposite me rather than usually being underneath it. It's flowering with full might and is looking fabulous!
Then I turned my head and spotted the Staphylea holocarpa 'Rosea' covered in pink little blooms.
Then the jungle hut beyond it.
Then it was time to back, skip and hop back down then look back into the pond itself.
Not bad at all but there's a part of me that thinks we've neglected this pond a bit since the big koi pond has been up and running. This used to be a koi pond before being 'just' a goldfish pond now. Perhaps it ought to be turned back into a mixed koi and goldfish pond again like it used to? It needs a mini makeover!
Enhance the filtration and streamline it so that there won't be as many pipes and cables going across the coping stones which is a testament to all the retrofitting and afterthought that came after the completion of this pond years ago. Perhaps change the shed itself behind it as well (which houses the filtration) as it's getting on a bit? Or maybe not as it'll make the mini makeover not so mini anymore. We'll decide on that later but for sure the inside lay out will be modified.
We'll be going for filtration similar to what we have in the quarantine shed, an Eazypod which is so easy to install and really good at what it's supposed to do and we're really happy with it.
Talk about impromptu decisions! Well sort of impromptu as giving this pond a makeover has always been on the backburner. Only a mini one for now though as we're busy enough already as it is this year without adding a big garden project to the mix.
The hop and skip gave me clearer head, which resulted in the start of a garden project!
Mark :-)
