On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 02:53:39 GMT, Phisherman wrote:

I had cattails,
and had to remove them because they took over the entire pond, perhaps
I will try a dwarf variety.

I've got a pot of the dwarf variety, very easy to control, but I think I'm
going to divide and sell it off this year. Reason, by fall it looked kind
of messy, and it is a difficult plant to get out of the pot and divide.
Plus, the wind was always blowing it over.

I've also gotten to where I enjoy the water-conditioned cannas more than
many of the hardy marginals. Come fall, when the cannas come out, I put
several pots of iris in there place. They grow and bloom before the cannas
are hardened off, thus plant filtering the pond in spring, then I move them
to these pots I've got out by the front door. Looked pretty cool last year,
as long as the paper boy didn't wack them or drown the paper in them.
;o) ~ jan

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