Half-Barrel Pond Pictures

Below are some scanned photos of my half-barrel ponds, taken during the summer of 1997.

This is a transformation of my first pond, moved from my interior patio into the back yard to get more sun, with an incredible water lily (Dauben), white with a faint blue tinge, that has been blooming constantly all summer.

This is my second pond, whose water lily (Blue Capensis), now less than two years old, has produced two additional blooming offshoots, that I intend to separate when they go dormant this winter.

I got this larger-than-half-barrel ceramic pond as a gift from a neighbor; it was originally a large ceramic planter. I'm gradually building up to larger ponds.

This is a photo of my back yard that gives some perspective with respect to the landscape surrounding the two ponds shown above. The pond with the lavender water lily is in the foreground and the ceramic pond (barely visible) is in the background to the right.

This is a photo of the four raw half-barrel ponds that took part in an experiment to see if liners are required for wooden half-barrel ponds. The result of this experiment is that liners are not required. I have given away two of these thriving ponds to friends and have two waiting in my backyard to give away soon (24 Sep 97). See the Half-Barrel Pond Page for an explanation of this experiment.

This is one of the ponds resulting from my "liners are not required" experiment. It contains a beautiful water lily (Green Smoke) whose flower is yellow in the middle, then green, fading to lavender/violet towards the edges. To the left is a portion of the last remaining experimental pond that contains an interesting lily (Giant White Snowflake) whose one inch diameter white flowers look like big snowflakes. I'll try to take a closeup soon and include its photo below.