Help with a couple of plants.

[haver79]

I bought a verigated sweet flag which I am wondering if I should put it outside the pond or in the pond. Does it prefer being in the water? Clay soil or no? I also have a lemon grass which I believe will be an annual for me. Should I put this bareroot in the pond to help with filtration? Anyone have these?

 

[RobAmy]

I have the sweet flag, not the variegated. It does great in the pond. I have it in a large pot and it grows outside of the pot also. Now and then I cut the outside growth and just plant it in the cracks between the rocks. It does well. Its the plant closet to the wagon wheel

 

[addy1]

A friend gave me some variegated sweet flag, his survived over winter just fine and came back beautifully.

 

[haver79]

Addy where do you have it? in the bog, pond or land?

RobAmy, I do have yellow solid leaved sweet flag bare root in the pond. Just wondered if the veriegated does as good on land or better in the water.

 

[addy1]

Addy where do you have it? in the bog, pond or land?

RobAmy, I do have yellow solid leaved sweet flag bare root in the pond. Just wondered if the veriegated does as good on land or better in the water.

Right now in a plastic bag in the house. Tomorrow it heads for the bog.

Growing variegated sweet flag: Plant in moist soil or in water up to 6 inches deep. It adapts to both sun and partial shade.

 

[haver79]

Got it, thanks Addy

 

[haver79]

I have the sweet flag, not the variegated. It does great in the pond. I have it in a large pot and it grows outside of the pot also. Now and then I cut the outside growth and just plant it in the cracks between the rocks. It does well. Its the plant closet to the wagon wheel

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RobAmy, what is that tree to the left of your picture that has the yellow flowers that hang down. Cool tree.

 

[Fishylove]

Ive had variegated sweet flag in the pond bare root for three years now, it has done fine thru the winter.

 

[Fishylove]

oh, and I have lemon grass IN the bog and OUT of the bog in a huge pot, the one in the pot is deffenantly doing better than the the one in the the bog.

 

[haver79]

Fishy did you fertilize your Lemon grass?

 

[BlueOrca]

RobAmy, what is that tree to the left of your picture that has the yellow flowers that hang down. Cool tree.

I believe it is a golden chain tree (Laburnum), beautiful tree that I bought and was going to plant.....until my Aunt told me this (I have 3 young children and a dog, as well as the pond full of fish)....

All parts of the plant are poisonous, and can be lethal if consumed in excess. Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements, coma, slight frothing at the mouth and unequally dilated pupils. In some cases, diarrhea is very severe, and at times the convulsions are markedly tetanic. The main toxin in the plant is cytisine, a nicotinic receptor agonist.

My Aunt has the tree now, looks very nice in her child free and pet free yard.

(After digging around, the poisonous nature of the tree may have been overstated without medical or scientific facts) Better safe than sorry for me though.

 

[haver79]

Hmmm Blue orca good to know. But sure is pretty.