pond plant care

[trish]

Any one know why my oxygenating plants are breaking off and floating
to the top, usually the grow abundantly, pond balance good. Also we
have water Iris, Mare's tail, Scarlet Lobelia, Common Rush, Water
forget-me-not, water Dropwart, Goldent Buttons. Any tips on dead
heading, proprogating, general care would be appreciated.

[Ka30P]

Trish wrote
>>Any one know why my oxygenating plants are breaking off and floating
to the top, usually the grow abundantly,<<

A couple thoughts -

- have you added any new fish? (rough greetings from old fish)
- are they koi? (who come sometimes be very hard on plants)
- are the fish spawning? (general mayhem)
- do you live in an area where you could
have a visiting snapper turtle? (love to clip plants, usually spotted by
floating lily pads with their stems clipped at the bottom)


kathy :-)
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[Benign Vanilla]

"trish" > wrote in message
m...
> Any one know why my oxygenating plants are breaking off and floating
> to the top, usually the grow abundantly, pond balance good. Also we
> have water Iris, Mare's tail, Scarlet Lobelia, Common Rush, Water
> forget-me-not, water Dropwart, Goldent Buttons. Any tips on dead
> heading, proprogating, general care would be appreciated.

I have a few varieties of oxygenating plants that normally stay submerged
but this year they are sticking near the top. I believe it is because I have
too much of the damn stuff.

BV.

[Gail Futoran]

"Benign Vanilla" >
wrote
> I have a few varieties of oxygenating plants that normally
stay submerged
> but this year they are sticking near the top. I believe it
is because I have
> too much of the damn stuff.

Me, too. My 110 gallon stock tank with all
of 6 minnows in it has about a ton of anacharis, a
water fringe & a few other floaters. The water is
crystal clear, the fish healthy so I don't worry,
but I do pull some of it occasionally and toss
it on the compost pile (or in one of the other
ponds if they need it). There's too much of a
good thing, right? :)

There's one floating plant that looks like
anacharis but has longer leaves and gets a
little white flower on it. Never saw that before.

Gail

[how]

"Gail Futoran" > wrote lin message
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> snips
> There's one floating plant that looks like
> anacharis but has longer leaves and gets a
> little white flower on it. Never saw that before.

Hi,
There is more than one 'anacharis', they all have white flowers that float.
Elodea canadensis, E. nuttallii and Egeria densa are sold as anacharis.
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/plants/native/elodea.htm
HTH -_- how
no NEWS is good.

[Gail Futoran]

"how" > wrote in message
...
> "Gail Futoran" > wrote lin
message
>
...
> > snips
> > There's one floating plant that looks like
> > anacharis but has longer leaves and gets a
> > little white flower on it. Never saw that before.
>
> Hi,
> There is more than one 'anacharis', they all have white
flowers that float.
> Elodea canadensis, E. nuttallii and Egeria densa are sold
as anacharis.
> http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/plants/native/elodea.htm
> HTH -_- how
> no NEWS is good.

Thanks for the link. The information was very
useful and I've bookmarked the site.

It looks like I have some Brazilian elodea
along with common waterweed. Where I got it
from I have no idea. Fortunately my ponds are
not connected with any natural water way, nor is
there a possibility of my plants getting into a
natural water way. (We're well above flood
plains & any excess plants go onto my compost
pile.)

Gail