New pond owner in the SF east bay

[j.w]

What's the best grasses to actually go into the pond water?

 

[sissy]

I used ribbon grass and strawberries and cream grass and even the fountain grass worked great and added nice color too .If you just pull a piece off a plant and that piece has roots it will grow .gauranteed

 

[j.w]

Cool sissy so you can just pot it up and have the pot level w/ the water? Or maybe a floating basket or tucked in the rocks so the roots are in the water.

 

[sissy]

yep they root real easy my first one was just a piece with a couple of roots I got while at a nursery as the pot was broke I just took a pice from it since they were going to throw it away because it looked mostly dead and figured a couple of small pieces looked ok .Try lemon grass also as it keeps mosquito's away and smells great oriental groceries carry the root because you can cook with it also and great in salads .

 

[j.w]

Thanks sissy I'll try some in the Spring when the weather is nicer.

 

[sissy]

I devided mine up and got about 30 plants from the ribbon grass and gonna plant some in the yard since it is a hardy grass and comes back every year .

 

[j.w]

Gotta write all this grass stuff down or I'll forget!

 

[sissy]

The ribbon grass you can see in my pics of the waterfall .

 

[callingcolleen1]

Here I have a large overgrown basket that has Wool GRASS Bull Rush (not a rush, it's a grass) and some nice blue cotton grass mixed in, here is a picture from fall... it's got a fake heron in the grass now, moved the heron from the tall sweet flag when the flag got too big to the grass clump.

 

[j.w]

Lots of nice grasses to look for come Spring! Thanks for all the ideas :razz:

 

[addy1]

I have blue rush in our pond, just stuck in no pot, it grows great, about 1 foot depth. Also in the bog. Grows both places just fine.

http://www.pondexperts.ca/Blue_Rush.htm

 

[j.w]

Sounds like everyone has great success w/ the grasses. Something to look for when the warm weather comes back next year!

 

[callingcolleen1]

That's because grasses are outstanding sedges and do very well at "photosynthesis" filtration for the pond, as well they look very natural in the pond, easy to grow, and easy to divide!

 

[j.w]

Ok so grasses are all sedges so I should be looking for any that say they are grass or sedges? They are both the same right?

 

[callingcolleen1]

Yes! A grass is a sedge, all sedges have a spear shaped leaf, so That would be grass, iris, sweet flags. Etc.