Water garden

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The water garden is a sufficiently expansive term to cover plants that like "wet feet" as well as those that actually grow in the water; for that matter it may be made up of either, the water being the essential thing. As for pretentiousness, a tub of water sunk in the ground and a single water lily growing in it, with a bit of perennial forget-me-not flourishing in the adjacent moist soil, is a water garden that is not to be sneered at; the birds will tell you that by their actions, if they cannot in so many words.

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Pond and Water Garden Care

Cement pools should be drained in the fall, for water freezing in them is likely to crack the walls. To keep mosquito larvae from developing in the pools it is necessary to stock them with fish. For small pools, gold fish are the best, for they not only feed on both eggs and larvae, but in their bright colors, are attractive in themselves. For large ponds, the native fish, such as minnows, sunfish and sticklebacks are best.

A common nuisance encountered in most pools or ponds where the water is still, is the development of algae. The algae are simple-celled plants that float around in the water giving it a greenish or reddish cast.

An application of copper sulphate at the rate of one pound to a million gallons of water will destroy it in most cases. Application in large ponds or lakes is made by fastening a bag containing the chemical to the end of a boat, then rowing the boat around the pond. In a small pool simply fasten the bag of sulphate on the end of a pole and work the pole around through the water until the salts are dissolved. In concrete pools the fish should be removed when a chemical is used to destroy the algae. Red-bellied minnows and the tadpoles of toads are said to eat and destroy algae.

Water plants

Azolla

Water lilies