The first water lily of the year just bloomed in my 12 year-old-backyard pond. Years ago I brought home white and yellow lilies, purple irises, and two rushes, from the golf course ponds where I work part time, and planted them in this, the Lily Pond. The lilies had thrived, the others survived.
I’m happy to seem the lilies begin blooming after this hard winter and old spring.
This pond once had chorus frogs, but the bullfrogs wiped them out. A few determined chorus frogs returned this Spring and laid eggs. If the eggs avoided the goldfish, maybe the native frogs can recolonize the pond.
Here’s a wider look at the pond, compared to an earlier picture.
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