clm
05-03-2007, 10:27 AM
Water lily pads have broken the surface :grin: Amazing how fast they grow up through 3 feet of water. One pad has a few chunks out of it, so I know the crayfish wintered over okay too.
I can see the lotus just starting to sprout, so at least I know it survived the winter.
All the plants in the planters around the pond ledge are up, except for the duck potato....I'm hoping it's just late.
Saw those water plants at Walmart that someone here had mentioned....I think they had bought 2 of the lilies, they also have black gamecock iris, a white iris and a few other marginal plants....they're all 9.99, so worth a shot if anybody wants any, hard to beat that price.....I paid a whole lot more than that for my black gamecock iris last week, mind you, mine is a few feet tall.
Instead of putting nothing but watercress in the bogs, I couldn't resist putting in a whack of other stuff too, a hardy water canna in each bog, the black gamecock iris in one bog and the traditional blue iris (which by the way, cost a small fortune for something that grows in the wild), and a rather pretty mauve one in the other, a hardy picture plant (too cool, have tried them in the pond before with no luck at all, hoping they prefer the bog), water celery of course a yellow button flowered plant (name escapes me), and watercress in both.
I know, I know, pictures, I don't work Fridays, so tomorrow will be a perfect day to take some pics. I want pictures of now and then once the bogs have filled in, the watercress should find it's way and completely cover the bogs right around he bases of all the other plants.
The hula hoop I had the hyacinths in last year has had netting strung across the bottom and watercress placed on top of it, it's growing like crazy. No hyacinths for me this year....I've decided to put my foot down and only have hardy pond plants from now on.....all except for one tropical canna that I already have in the pond and will be on frost watch now for a couple of weeks.
Cindy
I can see the lotus just starting to sprout, so at least I know it survived the winter.
All the plants in the planters around the pond ledge are up, except for the duck potato....I'm hoping it's just late.
Saw those water plants at Walmart that someone here had mentioned....I think they had bought 2 of the lilies, they also have black gamecock iris, a white iris and a few other marginal plants....they're all 9.99, so worth a shot if anybody wants any, hard to beat that price.....I paid a whole lot more than that for my black gamecock iris last week, mind you, mine is a few feet tall.
Instead of putting nothing but watercress in the bogs, I couldn't resist putting in a whack of other stuff too, a hardy water canna in each bog, the black gamecock iris in one bog and the traditional blue iris (which by the way, cost a small fortune for something that grows in the wild), and a rather pretty mauve one in the other, a hardy picture plant (too cool, have tried them in the pond before with no luck at all, hoping they prefer the bog), water celery of course a yellow button flowered plant (name escapes me), and watercress in both.
I know, I know, pictures, I don't work Fridays, so tomorrow will be a perfect day to take some pics. I want pictures of now and then once the bogs have filled in, the watercress should find it's way and completely cover the bogs right around he bases of all the other plants.
The hula hoop I had the hyacinths in last year has had netting strung across the bottom and watercress placed on top of it, it's growing like crazy. No hyacinths for me this year....I've decided to put my foot down and only have hardy pond plants from now on.....all except for one tropical canna that I already have in the pond and will be on frost watch now for a couple of weeks.
Cindy