Question on planting aquatic plants

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:08:24 GMT, (Roy) wrote:

So my question is when would you plant aquatic plants like calla's.
iris, and water lillies........I have mainly hardy lillies but do have
a few tropical.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Calla's have to be conditioned to grow
in the water, taken out in fall and store the bulb dry. The others you can
plant anytime.

the water lillies I have growing now loose their leaves or do they
usually keep them all year around in climates that are not so cold..

Since hardies react to day length, my understanding is they will go thru a
short dormant period even in the south. This may be as simple as not
producing new flowers and pads for a month or so. Hopefully someone from
the south will weigh in on this.

I was just given a large bag full of hornwart. There is no roots, and
was told it can just be weighted down and placed in the pond Will
hornwart take up and grow roots..........can pieces be cut and simply
stuck in the ponds soil and be expected to grow ?

I usually sit a rock on it if there is some particular place I want it to
stay, other wise, like Windsong said, just let it float..... but do heed
the advice of K30 regarding noxious aquatic weeds and restrictions in your
area. ~ jan


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