Consider various types of water iris or sweet flag instead of cattails. Cattails spread too fast, grow to deep, grow too tall (can't fish over or through them), and produce too much fodder that decomposes and makes thick black muck. Water iris do not have those problems for a smaller 1.5 acre pond. Other good emergent plants are pickeral weed, water arum, arrowhead, and spike rushes.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 10/07/09 08:21 AM.
