Buying pond plants online?

[Linus_Cello]

The new daughter plants should be fine once the weather warms up. Some independent live fish stores/aquarium stores carry pond plants (never seen them at PetCo or PetSmart).

 

[KC Crook]

We dont even have an aquarium store for hundreds of miles from here so I sympathize with Fishfinder struggling to find someone reputable to buy the plants needed.

 

[sissy]

lowes carry some ,but you have to look for them and some regular plants if they say they are for wet areas work also .

 

[Fishfinder]

The pond rebuild is scheduled for tomorrow, so the plants will be put in a container, with some Miracle Grow, in the basement. I'm excited to see if I can get some decent looking lettuce.

 

[KC Crook]

What is water lettuce Sissy? Same as water "cabbage?"

 

[sissy]

You don't have to put them in the basement .I only put them there to over winter them here .I guess it may be the same .The ones I have now have spent 2 winters in my basement

 

[KC Crook]

You don't have to put them in the basement .I only put them there to over winter them here .I guess it may be the same .The ones I have now have spent 2 winters in my basement

You have some shade lovers I can buy from you? Lol?

 

[sissy]

I know water lettuce likes shade more .I have given more of that away than the hyacinth .

 

[KC Crook]

Is that pics of water lettuce? Im still learning about water plants. Its sure pretty

 

[sissy]

no hyacinth .

 

[KC Crook]

Oic, looked too good to be true, and too familiar...lol

 

[sissy]

my banana plants have gotten out of control .I dug up 7 more plants yesterday .All of my elephant ears have come back healthy and bigger .Cannas have tripled in size .Have to go to NC today and light rain today so will not get anything done .headed for Madison NC .I wonder what I will bring home this time

 

[Lisak1]

@KC Crook I grow hostas in my bog and in the margins of my pond - they do great! Mine are in gravel that freezes every winter but they always come back.

 

[sissy]

liriopi is good for ponds also .The black looks great

 

[Fishfinder]

Sissy, how long should it take the plants to perk up? I put some Miracle Grow in a shallow container with water I got from the pond. When the plants look good, I can rinse them off really really well and put them back into the pond?