Medium View Looking South, April, 1999

This photo shows almost the same area as the close-up of the D&RGW I took in Dec., 1998. Click on it to see a slightly larger version. Now you can see some vegetation is taking hold and coming out of the ground. In the distance are some miniature tulips which were supposed to be white and red (peppermint) and not get over six inches tall. They are yellow and ten inches tall. Still they're cute, I'll leave the bulbs. [In 2006 I learned that these are called Clusiana. They also spread a little by seed, which is a nice feature.]

Also, you can faintly see some arrowhead I brought back from the Louisiana bayou as well as some water hyacinth in the upper pool, also from Louisiana. The pond is starting to look like a pond. Behind the train (to your left) is the beginning of a rock wall that now leads to a tunnel over which another waterfall pours. Still trying to get it looking the way I want it, though. [Note from 2006: The water hyacinth was a mixed success, staying a little sickly. Turns out it had been affected by a bioagent they're using in Louisiana to keep the things under control. The next year I bought a specimen from a pond plant dealer, and it thrived.]

The "arrowhead" never really took off. Seems like it liked a dry crown and wet roots, so my plastic pool didn't really offer the best habitat.

I subsequently bought a hardy water lily and a Pickerel Rush. The Pickerel Rush has survived and spread, but seldom blooms the way the ones in the photos do. The water lily has taken over most of the pond and often gives me 3 blooms at once in summer. The blooms are so "perfect" that a friend thought they were artificial. In addition, the banks of the pond are generally lined with creeping thyme these days.]

The Atlantic in the picture is described in the Motive Power page.

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