A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Super Swimming pool Solar Sale!

The guy that brings the paper didn't come in today luckily someone else brought one,, I was on break and was looking thru it,,, If that store would have waited just one month they could have sold all their merchandise for a higher price and still made a killing,, they must have had to close down the store fast, because the doors are closed Sunday at 6pm forever.

Those are really neat!

Thanks Cheryl
I don't think they have been outside long enough to get a picture of the blue lights, it's been over cast all day,, and supposed to have heavy rains tomarrow,, When I can get a good picture at night I will :wink:

What a great find, Diane!!!

I say yes to going back for red and white ones - then you'll be all set up for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July!

I like how you placed them all, and the teardrop one is really cool hanging like that!

Will you post pictures of them at night please?

Love them Diane! :ding: I would've snapped them up in a hearbeat....especially the floating solar balls for my pond! You got some really great deals....I could def. handle a sale like that!

Thanks Lynne and Loz!

I was able to get night pictures,,



and the tear drop changing colors,, it doesn't swirl like it said,, It gradually fades into the next color,, making the color look a soft red to amber orange, to soft brown to green to soft blue then dark lavender back into red again as it fades from one color another color grows into prominence maybe that's what they mean by 'swirl?' I like it better this way anyway!!

^ Oh yeah and the green one too,,




Whats cool is that you can't see the drink glasses in the dark.. So it looks like the 3 balls are suspended in air!

WOW!!! You really found a deal. They do last a long time. I brought some small ones about 5 years ago and the small ones were 6.00. I wish I could find a sale like that.

Diane - they are SUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPER DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPER COOL!!!

I know what you mean about the colors fading into the next - I have that small dragonfly thingie that I posted last summer - I like the way they do that!

Thanks Cinta,, It's good to hear they last a long time!,, I couldn't believe in just a couple of hours of overcast skys it was still enough to charge them to get night pictures,, ,, dang 5 years ago they are $6.00 WOW,, I think that has certainly persuaded me to go back for more!

Thanks Lynne! I'm glad I read the paper today! they had butterflys, a hummingbird, and a sun,, I thought it looked kinda cheesy as they were soooooooo little but the poles were long with a big bulky solar box connected to the pole so I didn't get it they only had a few, I think they were 2.00. I'm sooooooo there in the morning when they open,, with the balls being that cheap,, it might be a good idea to stock up for gifts!

yes, get more-- I love how you put the small one on the fairy flower.

how big are the small ones??? they sure are neat.
but yes for that price, I say buy more---

I especially love the tear drop one---and at night, super---

yes--buy all the colors--and you will be set for any occasion or party.

Carol the small one is just a scoch larger than a softball.

ummmmmmmmmmmm - Diannnnnnnnnnnnnnnne :wink: - I'm decorating around my pond in blues!

You know I'm just razzing ya, right???

I knowwwwwwwwww you are Lynne

Didn't I send you a blue Fish already?????????

One fish, two fish... here we go again!!!

Besides - he was mostly yellow - with blue stripes - he'll be going in the pond just as soon as Don has it up and running again!

that is the perfect size!!! do you have places for them all--or will you use them as seasonal things??

Yep 5 years and I do not bring them inside in the winter. I thought they would only last a year. It is glowing tonight and we have been cloudy for days...what am I saying it has been weeks. I am in denial.

Maybe if we talk real nice to you we can send you some money and you pick us all some up. J/K.

I am not--that is a great idea--as a matter of fact I was in the middle of sending you a PM just about that very thing.

That is so cool and pretty.

Very good find, Diane. I wish.........

I'm going to check our pool supply store. I want some cool stuff like that.

I went back today and got some more ~ some of them wasn't even in boxes,, I'm not saying how many I got some of these will be for gifts,, The ones not in boxes I don't know what colors they are I'll have to charge them and see.
To answer Carol's Question,,Ohhhhh yes I have room for them all I could line a sidewalk with them use them for the willy village,, Put them randomly in the flower beds,, they can be used anywhere! I want to use a large white one for the center of my patio table I'll have to find a nice bowl to set it in,, I wish I had a pond or fountain for some of them!

Could you dig out a little pond? Emmy would be in there swimming huh?

I'm so glad you went back and got more of them, I would have too! I probably would've snapped them all up!

Solar things are the best...my absolute favorite! Mark thinks I tend to overdo the solar stuff but I love it! If it looks like an airplane landing strip in my yard then so be it!

Yep she would be right there in it Loz Emmy Loves water!!

I say ya can't have too much solar anything too!

Have you thought of having a pond though for real? I guess you could put a little picket fence around it to keep her out...

Solar is the way to go, can't get enough of things magically being lit up here and there throughout the yard.

They are beautiful, so glad you got them.

Yes I've been trying to convince Dwight for 4 years He's still thinking about it,

I'd like to have a pond too. Just a little one with a water fall of some sort. Maybe some day.

I went to the web site of the biggest pool place in Charlotte and they don't even have solar lighting, just battery operated. It's pretty and colorful but I'd rather have solar.

You two should go for it with a pond....mine isn't too hard to keep up.

Diane, just get out there with a shovel and start....then he'd have to finish it!

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh I did about 3& 1/2 years ago,,He was furious that I had made a huge hole in the ground,, it wasn't very deep but it was about 4X6 that area is now the rockgarden sitting area,,only now its 10X10 well at least I got one of the things I wanted out there!

I've got to figure out where to put one. Maybe this summer.....

All I can say is COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

hey Loz, on a foggy night, you just might guide some poor pilots way, huh ----
just think how proud we all will be of you---

I dug my little pond. It is not hard. It took me 3 months but I did it. It is only 6 x 8 with a little waterfall. I put one of the solar balls in it and it is pretty at night.

If I can do you can do it. I am glad you went back. You would have kicked yourself this summer when you see all the places you could have used them.

Did you do it by yourself Cinta? I can do a small one myself. Did you have a kit?

Yes I did it myself. One shovel load of soil at a time. LOL.

I brought one of those preform ponds. I dug out the hole deep enough about 4'down 6' wide. I put some water on the soil to make it softer to dig in. I had a new retaining wall put in and saved the rocks from the old wall to make the waterfall.

I cannot wait to move. The new/old house has a swimming pool and I am going to have it filled in and I can have a big pond without digging. I am going to make the pool house into a greenhouse.

Cool, Aud. In the new pond you can also have drainage in it. That can be awesome if you ever want to redo your pond. Our pond in on a level part of a hillside and we can siphon most of the water out. But John always kicked himself for not setting up a bottom drain. We have taken ours apart twice because we got a nasty algae or something in it. Had to thoroughly clean all those rocks and the liner with bleach before we put it back together. Put the fish into the hot tub until it was done.

I will go to Lowe's and see if they have "pond kits" and dig myself one. How did you dig your water line to it?