rattfan: (Frog World!)
Alex Isle [Rattfan] ([personal profile] rattfan) wrote2008-01-12 10:43 pm

Frog World Is Open For Customers

If there are any frogs out there looking for a new pond within their price range, this may be the thing for you!

Yes, Frog World is finally a fact; dug, lined and filled. Landscaping is a work in progress but there are now some water plants IN the pond - let's hope I manage not to kill my very expensive water lily - and soon there'll be more plants around it and the very best groundcover, sourced from my massive patch of native daisies which grew from a tiny, depressed plant handed over by my mother. Anything which can survive that beginning and thrive should do fine around the pond.

Unfortunately I'm too late to get tadpoles from the large pack who lived in my landlords' ex-swimming pool, they having sprouted legs and left. The tadpoles, not Don and Lena. I believe they had legs already. So I'll be waiting for the next lot or perhaps surreptitiously checking out the water sources at the local nursery, who told me sometimes tadpoles just appeared there.

I'm quite pleased with how it looks. It's been a lot of work but extremely satisfying.
[edit: Yes, there are Before and After photos!]

[identity profile] agoodliedown.livejournal.com 2008-01-12 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
My passionfruit vines are planted. When I dug the holes, I wqas so excited by the deep brown colour of the loam, I took photos, which shows how sadly obsessed with the garden I am. I'll post them later.

Roses go in tomorrow. Today was a write off, with the garage sale arriving at 7am, then a trip out for lunch, followed by a migraine that felt the need to have go around twice, just to make sure I got the message that The New Medication Was Not a Miracle Cure.

Tomorrow. Roses. Then I turn up at your place with a car boot full of plants I've dug out of my garden.

[identity profile] ratfan.livejournal.com 2008-01-12 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
And they will get a very good home or at least, the areas in my garden where I haven't got anything to grow yet...

Hope you feel better soon. I have beer left if tea is not enough.

see you tomorrow perhaps?

[identity profile] satyapriya.livejournal.com 2008-01-13 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the opening of Frog World. I hope that by the time I get to see it, there will not only be frogs, but rides and vendors as well.

[identity profile] callistra.livejournal.com 2008-01-13 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Do you want tadpoles?
I can see if we can get some to you on the next roleplaying night if they are still tadpoles.