This used to be my old fish pond. I filled it in many years ago after a snake ate my fish and the liner cracked. Since then it's been nothing in particular, but it still has the old rock border around it which was concreted in. I've grown tomatoes, watermelons, and weeds in it. It is highly visible from inside the house, and I was tired of it looking like crap, so last year I started a concentrated effort to make it look nice.
It gets full sun ALL day long. The soil holds water well, but "normal" plantings still have a tendency to wilt every afternoon in the summertime because of the intensity of the high-summer radiant heat, so I am doing it all in desert rock garden type materials.
Back when it was a fish pond:
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| 2000 |
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| 2004 |
2016 (home to a tomato plant):
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| Black Cherry herloom tomatoes - prolific and delicious! |
2020 (even the cosmos fried last year):
2021 (so far, and granted it's been raining like crazy):
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| 'Moonshine' yarrow |
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| Purple Ice Plant |
