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Waterlily wonders
Floating flowers in a garden pond offer ornamental beauty in many colors
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Adrian Higgins, The Washington Post
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The tropical day-blooming waterlily called St. Louis Gold is part of the waterlily display at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa. (The Washington Post/Adrian Higgins)
A garden pond can be a pestilential mess or the beating heart of a landscape, depending on how well it is designed, engineered and maintained.
My general advice is to avoid small, shallow ponds with inadequate pump and filtration devices. Think big. You need some fish to eat mosquito larvae, but not so many that their waste will overwhelm the filters. Let's not get bogged down by the logistics of the ornamental pond, though, because the point is, once you have one, you can join the world of the waterlily.