Home depot has hardy and i think tropical water lillies.

Also you can go to an asian grocery store, and pick up some waterchestnuts,
and fresh watercress. Start both in a bucket of pond water, and dump out the
old water into the garden and replace with fresh pond water every other day.
Then plant as desired.

Sameer

"John" wrote in message
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Thanks for all you help in this NG,I just finished my 5500 gallon
(maybe more) of pond this weekend,
(you wont believe how long it takes to fill this thing, I
turned the garden hose (MAX) for 5 hours & 40 mins)
Now I need a lot of pond plant to fill my new pond,try to
save some money
does anyone live in S California has excess pond plant
(water lily,lotus etc.) which they want to toss away? I live in
Arcadia, CA,
thanks in advance.