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all of you want that hyacinth cause it has that one measly flower at a
time and only
for one day. if you can give that ephemeral flower up, then you can
forget hyacinths
AND water lettuce and get on with much friendlier, more useful and hardier
plants for
veggie filters. properly fertilized water lilies in large pots will
nearly cover the
entire surface of a pond. Ingrid

The water lettuce I had last year had very dense root cones much like a
water hyacinth, but all of hyacinth had much larger cones. For a filter
plant I'd prefer WH, but the lettuce is a close second. Lillies will cover
the pond, but IMHO they just don't have the root mass to be good filter
plants.

I don't care about the flowers. I want them ROOTS!!!

Which reminds me...I still need WH...and can't find any.

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BV.
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