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Okay, to give you some pointers on planting so far,
I've put the lotus out in the pond a little bit.
And across the front here, I have some low growing plants.
Here and here, these guys will pop up a little bit.
I don't want to take away from the beauty of this log right here.
So I really don't want to put anything else along there.
I am gonna, however, put, I'm gonna find a specimen plant to come up and
kind of get tall right here.
All the plants that I've chosen so far will provide a, a nice area for
the frogs to, to evade predators.
So this one could potentially be something just sporadic that gives me some
height in the pond.
So we'll, we'll see what we can come up with there.
Look at this great iris I found.
Beautiful purple flowers.
This is not a real aggressive one it's more of a dwarf variety,
but it's got a beautiful pop, gives us color immediately.
And Iris is actually a great plant for filtration.
This Iris is just like the show piece for the pond for me right now.
It's like my favorite, favorite plant in the pond so far.
This is a great plant for not only filtration,
but to give the beauty that you want when you walk up next to the pond.
You see the log, you see this nice backdrop behind it with gorgeous flowers.
And these particular plants, their root systems take a lot a lot of nutrients
out of the pond when they're working real hard to create these beautiful flowers.
Now that I have the bulk of the aquatic plants,
placed around the pond where I want them, it's time to go ahead and
put the gravel in the bottom, and we'll move it in all the cracks as well.
Once the gravel's in we'll be able to add water to the pond, and then I'll
put the final aquatic plants, in which is the submerged aquatic plants and the floaty ones.
So I'm going to start grabbing some bags of gravel and get started.
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Okay, so I brought along a, a pump so I can rinse this nice and clean.
From all of the construction dust.
A lot of times that gravel comes in it's really dusty.
[SOUND] So I'm just gonna give it a rinse or two.
[SOUND] So I can have clear water faster.
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