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Japanese
Pond |
The pond was designed to collect the runoff
from the sunken gardens, compost and nursery areas. Decommissioned
in October 2000 because of an invasive weed, it was redesigned
by Japanese interns in June 2001. Viewed from the sunken garden,
it has a large bottle brush behind it. Four species of frogs
and countless rainbow minnows live there, and several water
birds visit. Lotus, water lilies and around a dozen varieties
of edible day lilies grow in diverse ecological niches in
the surrounding gardens and rockeries.
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| February
1998 - Site of the future pond - below the Macadamia
and beside the bottlebrush. |
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April
1998 - Geoff in his backhoe scrapes out the subsoil,
following the white marking lines. |
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| July
1998 - The hole is dug, the rain has started to fill
it and one of the first signs of life are four wild
ducklings. |
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May
1999 - Red Sabah Rice in the background and azolla
floating on the surface. Note the diversity of edge
plants. |
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| Summer
2001 with a white heron fishing. |
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