There is a picture of my pond, http://users.owt.com/jjspond/
page 1, that shows my fall arrangement. The only problem with this
arrangement is I sometimes have to clip plants before they're totally
ready, but since I use so many tropicals in the koi ponds, seems I'm only
clipping the cattails.

ok, remind me, what part of US are you??

do you get snow???