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Well not too many people posted to my last question, but thank you to
the three who did However I'm still confused, I went to look for pond
plants at Walmart and home depot as someone suggested, and I now
realize that the plants are not in "water", but soil So can I just
take these plants and shake all the soil off then put in my pond?

## Which plants? Most need to be in soil or finer gravel to thrive. What
would hold them up and in place if you just dropped them into your pond?

It
seems they would die? I did find a list of plants to try. Also what can
I use as "soil", pond soil is very exspensive, 6.47 for a small bag?

## Any good garden soil not to loaded with organic matter. I use the soil
from behind our house. It's a red clay and the plants thrive in it. I only
fertilize my water lilies.

I also have just a few questions about my filter, what else might a
place like home depot call a Bulkhead fitting? I just couldn't find it,
maybe this is the wrong kind of store?? The person I asked said that he
hadn't heard of it?? And I didn't see anything there like the online
picture.

## Try ACE Hardware or any farm type of store.

About the lava rock, I got a bag of this today and it's very
small like gravel, and very heavy? It's the only one they had, but I'm
not sure how this would stay out of the sediment area of the filter?

## That's the wrong size. You need the lava rock that's 1 to 2"s.

Sorry for the confusion, but I'm very new to this and have no clue when
it comes to pond plants. Ouida

## Google is your friend. There are hundreds of pages out there that cover
all kinds of water/pond plants. :-)
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