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Welcome to our homepage, we are watergarden guru's. We have 9 acres of ponds and hosta and perennial beds. Eighty percent of our hardy water plants, perennials and hosta's we grow ourselves in our greenhouses. We have ponds ranging from 200 gallons to 11,000 gallons. We also do container watergardening, and likewise raise the dwarf lily's and lotus for the containers too. This is a hobby gone wild!! We specialize in Butterfly koi and Shubunkin fish. Most are raised here on the premises. We are members of the Ohio Koi Club,and the Mid-Atlantic Koi Club, we always welcome new members. If you have any questions or comments please contact us. We are located in a climate zone 5, here in central Ohio. We have many visitors who stop to see our flower gardens, and they are eagerly greeted by our Boxers and Rottweilers. Our dogs compete in agility and are also Therapy dogs. They enjoy greeting people. Our farm would not be complete with out our throw away dogs too. These are dogs who were tossed out by horrible people, but we were fortunate, to be in the right place at the right time. These animals bring lots of joy and pleasure to us. We hope if you are ever coming through Marion, Ohio you will contact us at 740-387-3580 and stop and visit our gardens and greenhouses. |
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This is one of the greenhouses where we raise and grow a lot of our plants. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pink Asiatic Lotus starting to open. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Looking down on the 7000 gal. extension to the 2000 gal. upper pond, we have a beautiful spillway connecting the two ponds. There are over 50 Butterfly koi, Japanese Koi, and MagNoy Koi in these ponds.They range from 6 inches to 28 inches long. As well as 100 different lily's and 75 diffrent bogs and marginal plants. There are two waterfalls on this pond too, it is a site to behold come July when all is in full bloom. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Our Malya water lily's have very large double fuschia flowers. It is a very profuse bloomer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is a pebble pond, with heron spitters, it is surrounded with Sum & Substance , June, and Strip Tease hosta's. Rose, pink and white impatiens in hanging bags and foreground for color variation.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is a 3000 gal. lily growing pond. We raise shubunkins in this pond too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is Sandanny one of our Butterfly Koi. |
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Our pets |
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Lotus and lilys | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ponds in Bloom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||