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Anyone know how to establish lilly pads in a pond? A pond that I fish used to have lilly pads all around the edge. A couple years ago all the pads just disappeared. The land owner says they don't know what happened and would like to have pads again. The lake has very little structure/cover without the pads and the quality of fish has decreased. Any ideas?

Thanks

Different things can bump off waterlilies.

Excessive salt or herbicides may have drifted in...

Wildfowl might have grazed them to destruction early one Spring

Some critters such as turtles, crayfish, carp can be aggressive grazers

If they were pleasant Marliac hybrids, it could be, crown rot devestated them

If they were tropical waterlilies, the cold may have done them in, in a bad Winter

Establishing hardy or tropical waterlilies can be tricky in early days, they can be vulnerable at times, but by and large well selected varieties for the climate and location are tough as boots and a pleasant asset usually

Regards, andy

Where are you located?

You would be best served figuring out what happened to the old ones before you just threw another batch, time, effort and money in there to have the same thing happen all over again. Lilies rarely if ever die out for no reason. They tend to expand and multiply even under tough conditions. In real tough conditions they still hang in there.

You might have a pond that can't support them at all. Maybe the wrong varities. Maybe you had a drought, a drawdown and that offed them. Can you describe what the olds ones looked like as far as flower color, depth and density. For example, they were white 5" flowers, about 3 feet deep and were in groups about 5 feet across. And any history if you have any what were the circumstances in the pond when they went away. Drought, severe winter, heavy watershed issues, anything that may help.