Thanks to Kathy's advice I was more patient this spring. Instead of
throwing out plants, parrots feather in particular, that looked dead I left
them in the pond and by mid June growth was showing. We are in SW Ontario -
Zone 5 or 6.

BTW Kathy, did the frogs make it through? Our frog pond is 20" deep. I am
concerned the frogs will die in there. Considering draining it to force
them to move into the fish pond for the winter. It's 4' deep. Your
thoughts?

Heather



"Ka30P" wrote in message
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The whole frog bog (ten-ish inches deep) froze solid last year and was
covered
with snow, everything came back - penneywort, lilies, lizard's tail,
horsetail,
forget-me-not, cattails, rushes, parrot's feather.
Parrot's feather is usually the last to show up here in zone 7.


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html