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These are 4 'before' pictures that show our Biofalls, before we replaced it with a bog.. I'm not sure when this first one was taken.
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August 13, 2003
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This one was taken August 25, 2003. Generally, we were never successful getting anything to grow well in our biofalls. We tried Water Hyacinth, Water Lettuce, and European Brook Lime -- all of them did okay for a while, but they didn't spread well, and eventually turned brown and died. The picture below shows some Water Hyacinth (bottom left) we got from a guy late in the summer that called in to KFOR looking for anyone who wanted to come and get as much Water Hyacinth as they wanted. I came home with several lawn bags full and it seemed to do okay.
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Functionally, our biofalls worked fine as a bilogical filter for our water feature, but I was never thrilled with it aesthetically. I could just never get it to look natural. It was also a bit labor intensive on the maintanence. This one was taken May 14, 2004.