just thought I would share a pic of my barrel pond, its small I know, but I just rent my house so I cant go digging up the garden to put in a big proper pond which I would love love love.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i122/ell...y/photos071.jpg

it is home to

A waterlilly (which is sending out a flower bud)
some elodea
some ludwiga
water lettuce
annother plant I dont know the name of

it doesnt have a pump so water is kinda murky

Nice. I like the deep color and gloss of the lily leaves. Can't wait to see the pics of the blossom.

I'm a big fan of half barrel ponds. Here's mine:
http://www.kokosgoldfish.invisionzone.com/...showtopic=48801

your barrel pond is pretty impresive and it looks huge too. mine is 2 feet in diameter. and your fish are beautiful.
yes I love my lilly, my mother actually got it years ago, and I recently aquired it cause it didnt seem to be growing so well for her so I thought Id give it a shot. so I guess its an adopted l illy

It may look huge, but it's the same size as yours.

The fish are regular comets, but with good food and sunshine the colors come out great.

yes the colours on the shubunkins are really vivid.......ooohh I wish I could put a filter on mine so I could put some shubunkins in it.(Ive no electricity sockets outside!)

Very pretty, both of you!! I'd love to do a little barrel pond sometime, as I can't dig here either.

Love your barrel pond.Hopefully when we get a house with a back garden as well as a front a pond is on the agenda.

I just love barrell ponds! Hopefully I can have one of my own eventually. Now to get out of this apartment....

oh gosh ever since i made this pond Ive been drooling, wanting more and more, dreaming about alovely big pond guess im just gonna have to get a new tank instead....ah darn

LOL It sure is an addicting hobby, isnt it!?

oh fernandez I really like your barrell pond setup and your fish are so pretty.

here is the lilly bud breaking the surface of the water. ill post annother pic when it flowers

Barrel ponds are so neat. They look so natural without all the electrical gadgets beside them!! Beautiful
pics Ellnbea

Hi Ellnbea,your barrel is coming along nicely.Your plants will be growing huge in no time at all.

here is the water lilly flowering. it is so beautifull it closes up in the evening and opens in the morning.

Wow, that flower ish so beautiful!!! My water hyacinth recently bloomed but is no where near as beautiful as your lily flower.

Oh, so pretty!

Mine's not nearly that nice.

How do you make a barrel pond? They look really neat.

I followed the instructions on these pages when I made mine several years ago.

Jeff says you can do a half barrel without a liner. I tried his non-liner approach and it didn't work for me. Otherwise, everything he says is good advice.
http://www.jeffcook.com/hbpond.shtml

http://www.well.com/~gjmurphy/pondindex.htm

http://watergarden.com/tub/index.html