Thanks everyone. I can't believe how clear the ponds look! And all are gorgeous. Beeliz I think you may have hit the thumnail action on your photos. In photobucket it's the buttom tab under the picture. The first one brings up the full size picture--thanks to Jenny's advice. Duddly...you like the pond or the girl? I'm very proud of the girl but she has a boyfriend. My yard has been a 12 year project changing the pond three times. Hauling lots of rock from local farmer's fields and driving my sons crazy by having them move the big ones by the waterfall three times. The yard is kinda crazy right now as is the end of the season and everything has grown so much with all the rain. I think the pond looked nicer last year (the last picture) when it wasn't so overgrown but I did win the local best landscaped yard last year for our community. Most people here don't do much with their back yards. Jenny I've had lots of success with koiclay both for suspended algae and the string algae. The string algae is supposed to be a sign that the pond is balanced. I get it along the waterfall bed too from all the nutrients and just pull it off or springle koiclay on it and it falls off. Gotta go do the working thing. Have a happy day. Patti

Still a tad small for my eyes. Can you try again please?

Since I had already treated several of my problems with various brews, I sent a chunk of Striptease and a piece of September Sun to A&M. They said they needed something that had not been treated. Those were in the early stages. One had the "orangey" stain and the other had the white mold. I sent a big chunk of soil with each as well. Then I drenched everything with that Bayer product that showed any symptoms or had been treated with a different method (I've done bleach baths and hot water on several earlier this summer. What I've noticed that I have not mentioned is the pot. I posted it to the container forum but did not get an answer. I think this is related. I've washed and bleached all the pots as they have been emptied and their contents trashed. I just wish I knew what it is or how it's spread and is it the same thing I had at the first of the season? (Brown dried up roots) The sample I sent to A&M earlier this year was from OBL. It, Francee and Paradigm had the same problem (and maybe several others). A&M said Root knot nematodes. Bill Meyer said root rot, judging from my photos. I was tossing OBL a few weeks after re-potting , as it was continuing to go downhill. I pulled it out of the trash, bagged it up ans sent it to the lab. ( Maybe I washed away most of the fungi when I repottted ir?) Then, Bruce Banyai said what we're seeing is August blight and bleach it. Of course, bleaching a hosta in Texas in August is probably a death sentence. I have no clue if it's being spread by an insect, falling out of the pecan trees, came in the potting soil or is in the mulch in the beds. If I buy new hosta, will they get it, too? Maybe I'll get a better answer this time. bk

Along with what sjerin wrote, a silly little packaging change of my own. For years (many) I've made hummingbird food once a week and kept it in my refrigerator. In a Simply Orange plastic juice jug marked 'hummingbirds'. Same large saucepan for bringing it to a boil. I decided I'd used the same plastic jug for enough months I should refresh it before it became brittle, and it wouldn't hold my normal amount. I hadn't even noticed the size (in the same shape with wider mouth than most juices) had been reduced from 59 oz to 52 oz. Now its a little shy of holding the quantity needed to fill all 4 feeders. I hadn't noticed we'd been drinking less juice for the same price, and its not inexpensive juice as far as bottled juices go.