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[3qtkidz]

Does anyone have website to recommend to purchase pond plants.

I have had a couple of bad ones.

I need plants terribly so if I could make 1 nice purchase (I might save a buck or two on shipping)

Also, I live in Alabama so I can't have the majority of the floating pond plants that do the best filtration. Does anyone have another recommendation - other than lilies.

[koiguy1969]

i have my iris bare root and they can get some huge rootballs...you need to protect the roots if you have koi.

[anubias]

How about lotus? You can start them from seed.

[jason081180]

but what about websites to buy plants from? I'm looking for a good one as well.

[koikeepr]

Lowes and Home Depot sells pond plants these days. They sell cattail, hardy lily, rush and a few others.

[mrsclem]

Check out Webbs or Trickers- Both good sites.

[oldmarine]

koikeepr said:

Lowes and Home Depot sells pond plants these days. They sell cattail, hardy lily, rush and a few others.

The only problem with Lowes and Home depot is if you wait to long and buy one of their boxed pond plants after they have set on the shelf to long, they don't produce. Learned that from experience.

I've had some good lilies from Tricker.com

Happy ponding,

[joshk87]

Trickers is definately a good place. Lucky for me they are just a 20 minute drive away. I've never had a problem with anything iv'e bought from there.

[Riverbottom]

I like j&j aqua farm great plants and fish
http://www.jandjaquafarms.com/

[3qtkidz]

wow - thanks a bunch! I have an order planced at Trickers. I need alot more plants than surface coverage.
thanks everyone for the advice.

[3qtkidz]

oldmarine said:

The only problem with Lowes and Home depot is if you wait to long and buy one of their boxed pond plants after they have set on the shelf to long, they don't produce. Learned that from experience.

I've had some good lilies from Tricker.com

Happy ponding,

Yes, I know exactly what you mean. The lily I got from lowes was a very bad grower and and never bloomed

[mrsclem]

I was lucky and got to Lowes the day they got their pond plants in. I got a couple of plants for my bog. The last 2 years I have gotten an umbrella palm or dwarf papayrus from them. Tiny when I got them 4-6" but by late summer these things grew to 3-4'! Its a shame I can't get them to winter over.

[anubias]

I bought a red lily from Lowe's this spring, I figured $10 wouldn't break me. Here is a photo of my first bloom. I'm quite pleased, it bloomed before my other lilies.

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[Sunshine]

Some garden nurseries sell pond plants. We have one here that does. By the time I got there to get them, they were looking pretty sad and were 25% off. After a few days in the pond, they have perked up and are looking good.

[Sunshine]

mrsclem said:

I was lucky and got to Lowes the day they got their pond plants in. I got a couple of plants for my bog. The last 2 years I have gotten an umbrella palm or dwarf papayrus from them. Tiny when I got them 4-6" but by late summer these things grew to 3-4'! Its a shame I can't get them to winter over.

You can bring them indoors and plant them in a pot with soil for the winter. Next Spring, rinse the dirt off the roots and place them back in the pond. I have carnivorous plants that I float in the pond. I bring them indoors for the winter. When the water temp reaches 70* the next Spring, back to the pond they go.