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| I am a novice with pond plants & am confused about different names ... I need help! I know have water lilies (!) in the pond that have over wintered for several years but was wondering the difference between them and lotus, water hyacinth? Does the hyacinth have those 'bulbous'parts of the stem... I think I have that, & water lettuce (floating small,flat cluster of leaves w/roots underneath ?) I believe, but neither is winter hardy in my zone 7 & need to be taken out in the Fall & kept indoors? I remember in Iowa it was against the law to plant some kind of 'lily'-like plant as it clogged up the waters in the Mississippi River there & they tried to pull it out & kill it. And believe it or not I can not get duckweed (the teeny floating kind) to survive long in the pond ... I know the fish eat what is accessable to them but I also put some in a separate container of water & I can't get it to multiply ( yet it is illegal to sell it here for fear of it getting into the rivers & streams/ a weed as it is so invasive!)
I also was given a bucket full of LONG green soft fluffy 'ropes' that have very tiny soft fluffy green leaves & the rope hangs/floats on top & just below the surface- kinda like parrot's feather... could it be that? I have a 30 gal. garbage can of water full of this & wonder how to care for it come winter or can it sink to the bottom & survive? Thanks for any info./help with this newcomer to pond plants! Something is going well though as somehow for the past three years I have clear pond water ... only occasional string algae & green pond sides but no green algae bloom! Have a Skippy filter with loads of scrubbing pads in it & mint growing in it, also dump some peroxide (16 oz.) in the pond (250 gal. preform) where the water comes out of the Skippy if the water even shows a bit less clarity than usual ... don't laugh at me, but I read about the peroxide somewhere & it seems to help! |
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| vieja, try the link below for water plant photographs. "Horton" |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pond water plants.
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| Thanks, Horton! I did search the site you gave & also I just today found a used paperback in a thrift store: 'The Rock & Water Garden Expert' by Dr. D.G. Hessayon & it seems to have a section with colored pics & descriptions of some pond plants.. have you heard of it ... or another good pond book for the novice that has good colored pictures?! I THINK the long 'ropes' of fine green feathery foliage that floats on the surface mostly (so guess it would be a kind of an oxygenator?), may be Parrot's Feather that someone recently gave me a HUGE garbage can full of from his pond (it had the teeny snails on it when I got it). If so, I guess I will have to sink some of it somehow to the bottom for winter ... doesn't seem to have any roots that I can see- just a LONG,LONG 'rope' of this soft green stuff! Can't possibly use all of this though but hate to let the rest of it freeze so will try & keep the excess in water where the water won't freeze this winter. My just born teeny mosquito eating fish babies sure love to hide in those 'ropes' ... guess they otherwise get eaten by the goldies & their parents as so few survive out of 'jillions' that are live born! Thanks again for your help! |
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| When it comes to planting a pond its always tempting to chuck it in and see what happens Big surprise to see things thrive and grow so amazing well. Until the day it dawns that your pond is a titanic knot of pond destroying brutes all in a knot and just for good measure lashed together with long tough roots with rocks pebbles and who knows what embedded in the mass Some pond plants are very well behaved and easy to control, others have some rather bad habits. Needless to say folk who made the mistake of unleashing in their own ponds, odorata hybrid waterlilies, large strong growing lotus, cattails, water plantain, water hyacinth are always very glad to impress some unsuspecting new ponder with their generous portions as late summer approaches Yes, it is useful to know what a plant can do, before you plant it... |
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