Our erstwhile lotus pond

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@allknowing (141894)
India
February 8, 2021 9:33pm CST
Being a landscaped garden designer I was keen on having my garden landscaped. Water bodies are part of a landscaped garden design. I insntalled a waterfall and also got the lotus pond ready. Whenever we saw a lake with lotus in them my husband would willingly pull out a plant and that is how we collected different colours. The pond looked colourful as flowers started to bloom. But one fine day I spotted a snake in there and that was the end of our lotus pond. It is now filled with soil and plants are growing. Would you continue despite spotting snakes?
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much2say
@much2say (57326)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Feb 21
This is so beautiful ! But oh no, no more pond??? I am not afraid of snakes, but I would be if it were venomous. Here, we don't not get snakes at home, so I can say that .
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
9 Feb 21
It better safe than sorry as it is not always that snakes will be harmless.
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Simone
@Janet357 (75646)
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9 Feb 21
I love the flower. No no, am afraid of snake. Is.it a water snake?
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
9 Feb 21
Going by the look of it it was a poisonous snake.
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
10 Feb 21
No I certainly wouldn't. Frogs and newts and fish are fine, but snakes - NO!
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
10 Feb 21
It was a sad day for us when we had to close the pond.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (112635)
• Marion, Ohio
9 Feb 21
Snakes need water too. If it was a dangerous kind I would have got rid of it
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
9 Feb 21
I get the creeps looking at any snakes.
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Eva James
@wolfgirl569 (112635)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Feb 21
@allknowing They dont bother me.
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
10 Feb 21
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (347851)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb 21
I suppose it would depend on the type of snake and whether I thought they were a danger or not.
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
9 Feb 21
Seeing anything that slithers I get the creeps.
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Krissttina Isobe
@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
10 Feb 21
It isn't safe if snakes want to come to it. We have ponds like yours but no snakes. I'd have done what you did.
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
11 Feb 21
@oahuwriter I have a birdbath and also a water fall.
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
10 Feb 21
They normally come for the frogs.
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Krissttina Isobe
@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
11 Feb 21
@allknowing I see, but they can be poisonous so safer to just maybe get a bird bath?
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Notlilie
@prinzcy (32303)
• Malaysia
10 Feb 21
I would. Snakes are pretty common. I am fine as long as it stay away. Most would run at the sight of human anyway.
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Notlilie
@prinzcy (32303)
• Malaysia
10 Feb 21
@allknowing that one will be 'visited' by Civil Defense Force. I will call them right away to catch the dangerous one.
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
10 Feb 21
@prinzcy We have done that too.
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
10 Feb 21
There are some that do not run away and are vengeful
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OceanTiara
@RebeccasFarm (92682)
• United States
9 Feb 21
I would not like the snakes but that is so beautiful
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (142285)
• Roseburg, Oregon
9 Feb 21
I would not want to be anywhere near a snake.
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@allknowing (141894)
• India
9 Feb 21
We had to close down our beautiful lotus pond
rhuenz
@rhuenz (10642)
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9 Feb 21
Leave pond and it's beauty if snake lives there,that is so scary for me and harmful as we know. Well that's a beautiful lotus flower,i like the color.
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