Plant Ideas for Pond

[seandelevan]

For my last pond project, I bought two hanging basket pots with a small Pathos in each one. They were 2 for $5.
Four years later, I had to remove them and they filled the back of my truck tree times.

They survived the winter?

 

[Jimmy Gibson]

Regular Garden Lilies..... Grow like crazy bare root in a basket

 

[seandelevan]

Regular Garden Lilies..... Grow like crazy bare root in a basket View attachment 103586

Now this an interesting option. I have a bunch of these all over the yard that I'm probably going to dig up and divide in the fall. Probably going to have to wait until spring though if I'm going to try to put some in a pond. Or am I wrong?

 

[Jimmy Gibson]

Now this an interesting option. I have a bunch of these all over the yard that I'm probably going to dig up and divide in the fall. Probably going to have to wait until spring though if I'm going to try to put some in a pond. Or am I wrong?

I am going to put these back in the ground over the winter and then put them back in the spring, but I might leave part just to see if they will survive,

 

[Angel]

Now this an interesting option. I have a bunch of these all over the yard that I'm probably going to dig up and divide in the fall. Probably going to have to wait until spring though if I'm going to try to put some in a pond. Or am I wrong?

Take a tuber and give it a try. Worse case you lose 1 off spring and not the whole plant. Trial and error and learning Is pond life.

 

[seandelevan]

Take a tuber and give it a try. Worse case you lose 1 off spring and not the whole plant. Trial and error and learning Is pond life.

Very true.

 

[sissy]

If I remember I think you were in Martinsville .They will survive but you may be sorry they do .

 

[seandelevan]

I use grasses and just cut the tops off every once in awhile .They are in the windows screen pockets hanging off the side of the pond View attachment 103447

Cool! I have these bare root in my bog area and in the ground at the edges. I like your window screen idea. Have you done it with any other plants?

 

[Jimmy Gibson]

Now this an interesting option. I have a bunch of these all over the yard that I'm probably going to dig up and divide in the fall. Probably going to have to wait until spring though if I'm going to try to put some in a pond. Or am I wrong?

Also another note, I have Koi so I put all my plants in a basket heavily weighed with rocks..... I love them but they will destroy any plant even though they don't eat it just for the fun of it

 

[seandelevan]

If I remember I think you were in Martinsville .They will survive but you may be sorry they do .

Yes ma'am. That's what someone said about my bearded irises that I planted a few feet away from my pond!

 

[sissy]

I have several plants in the window screening .I just sew the pockets on my sewing machine or you can hand sew them with fishing line .

 

[Lisak1]

Are you talking about the same kind of lobelia that my wife has in hanging baskets on our front porch? If so that would be really cool. Love those.

Nope - Lobelia cardinalis. It's gorgeous - they say it's the truest red flower. And hummingbirds love it.

(Not my picture - stole it off the internet!)

 

[sissy]

Thing is here we have to be careful because of longer growing season .We can go until late November and still mow the grass in December .Then we start back up in March .So some plants can get out of hand here .Even though here I have had no rain for way over a month we have had high humidity (above 87 % ) grass is not suffering because of heavy dew each morning also