Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat Pond vegetation

You will be surprised what you will find at the recycling center as planting containers for lilies. As examples: 2.5 gal jugs with the side cut out work well and cat litter buckets with the tops cut down to 8" work good.

mr Bill Cody has more good particle ideas that any body. Thanks Bill

Most of them are doing well! I fertilize them twice a year and the ones that are planted in soft mud areas are really looking great. The ones that were planted in harder clay areas are growing slowly. I will post some pictures later this summer after they have started to bloom.

sean

Bill Cody,

I wish I would have thought about the recycling center before I bought all of the shoe boxes. Lol! Great idea!

sean

I ordered a few plants today. Question is what water depth to plant them. I have a water table pond that varies in level about 3 feet thru the year (based on limited 2 years of observation.)

This time around I am planting:

Sagittaria, Dwarf Subulata (Sagittaria subulata)
Sulphurea (M) Hardy Water Lily (Yellow)
LIZARD'S TAIL (Saururus cernuus)
CATTAIL, DWARF (Typha minima)

Pond is currently near low pool but expecting a lot of rain this week so may be up a couple of feet by the time the plants arrive. How deep of water can each of these species be planted and survive/thrive? Visibility is 18 to 24 inches but will be turbid after the rain.

Any help would be appreciated!

Bill D.

I'm curious about this also. I'm down about 3.5 to 4' from full pool. I'd like to start planting, but am concerned plantings will be too deep.
Bill, where did you order plants?
Thx!

I gave this place a try

http://www.aquariumplants.com/

Unless somebody can give me a better answer, I will plant for normal pool level and hope for survival when the level swings temporarily 2 or 3 feet higher.

Plants arrived today and were not what I expected. These plants were great! Spent the afternoon planting them. Assume I will spend tomorrow afternoon skimming the ones that float up and replanting!

Placed another plant order today from a different place. Will see how they are.

Calla palustris - Water Arum
Juncus effusus - Soft Rush
Elocharis plaustris - Creeping Spike-Rush
Pontederia cordata - Pickerel Plant
Sagittaria latiforia - Duck Potato

Good to hear the first order came in better than expected. Then you chose a second place for the next order? Just because you ordered different items?
Would you mind posting a picture or two showing how and where you planted. I'm getting a little of this storm coming thru the Midwest, but not much. Up a couple of inches, but I need more water. Ha

Bill D, with all that growing in your pond, u may be the go to guy for pond vegies in the future. keep us posted on how they do in your pond. Good or bad

Tracy

Tried a second place because they have some of the plants I want that the first place didn't have. Also, price seems a little lower.

Keeping my orders very small at this point as I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing and learning as I go! I haven't found much on the internet that specifically addresses how to plant most of these plants in a fish pond. The info seems mostly geared towards aquariums and koi ponds.

I will try to get a few pics today, assuming the plants are still there and haven't floated away!

Tracy,

I will be very happy to share my journey. If I am fortunate enough that I get some good populations going, I would also be happy to share some starter plants with folks wanting to try them.

Thanks to Bill C. as he has been my species selection advisor!

Bill D.

Thanks Bill, you r way north of me and I find it interesting of the plants that you get growing over what I might get growing. Different strokes for different folks My planting dates r coming soon (I hope). Did u try the rocks and burlap tossed into the pond?

Tracy

I used that method on one of the water lilies. I also planted one in a biodegradeable pot and one directly in the pond bottom in 18 inches of water. The rest so far are marginals so just planted them in a few inches of water.

Here are some pics. Sorry for the quality. Water is pretty muddy right now.

Folks,

All suggestions/critiques on how I could have done this better would be appreciated. I am on a learning curve here! Please let me know if you see any glaring mistakes, or even little ones. One I see is I need to untangle the leaves on that lily.

Thanks,

Bill D.

Let em grow!

Sure hope yer right. I am planting a little of a lot of species recommended by Bill C. to see what will thrive in my puddle. Hopefully, some will!

RAH, that is an awesome pic. Your plants look awesome and diverse. Did you seed a prepared mix, or plant one at a time? Good looking pond too.

Pics look good. I've just got rocks and hard packed clay. Not sure anything will grow in it.

I agree! We need more info on that!!

Beautiful bet the snakes like it too

LET EM GROW!

Well said lunker.

There is so much beauty in the eye of the behold. This is what is I saw in the lowly cattail just as the sunrise broke into the open early yesterday morning. A pond is so much more then a body of water.

The picture really does not do justice to these plants. The plants are wonderful. I find that planting seedlings works best, but my wife can grow seedlings of just about anything for us to plant. We also did some seeding in two wetland that we had built (along with planting seedlings) and that can work as well. My personal experience is that planting seedings works best. On this pond, we planted a mix of seedings initially and then kept adding plants. The banks and bottom were hard-packed red and grey clay.

Awesome Rah! If I can have 20% of that result, I'll take it! Do you have any submerged vegetation, Other than the lilies?