The plants at my pond are lucky if they get transplanted with the
green side up. They no doubt feel positively pampered that I get
water to them. Fertilizer? The plants would be so surprised they
wouldn't know what to do with it. I have only two kinds of plants
though, those that make it and those that don't. I want tough plants.
That doesn't mean they aren't pretty. Last year I had a "showy
rattlebox" growing. I looked it up in my plant book and found that it
grows mostly in "waste" areas (I think that may be a hint) in the
southeast. I didn't have to fertilize it, I didn't have to water it,
I didn't have to do anything to it. It had what I think are pretty
yellow flowers last fall. My kind of plant -- no fuss but nice
flowers.