We have started planting lilies in our pond. We have found some purple ones, some white ones, and some bluish ones. We got them from friends and from one of the nearby resort hotels. You can go to any hotel with a pond feature and talk to the gardeners. They have to thin out the [...]
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Rainforest Secret Garden Fish Pond – update #3
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · , Fish Pond, bed and breakfast construction
Our new fish pond is filled and Laurie has started to plant around it. All that remains is finishing the bio-filter and adjusting the liner edges to look natural.
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Our El Yunque Rainforest Fish Pond Update #2
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · , Fish Pond
As you can see in the picture we have cleared all around the old pool and finished putting all the sandbags in. The block walls of the bio-filter are also in place. You can’t see it but all the underground pipes and conduit for the pump power and lights are in place too. The next [...]
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Building A Fish Pond in the Rainforest
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Fish Pond
Our friends Greg & Linda at the neighboring horse farm Hacienda Siesta Alegre gave us these used carpets to help pad the ground when we put in the pond liner. They bring the carpets in from Florida to use as padding on the floor of the airplanes which they ship thoroughbred race horses in to [...]
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