get the 3 point hangers. paint galvanized pipe and set it across an open
area, or even suspend it under the water a bit. hang the lilies. you can
also pot them up in solid waterlily pots so you can shove fert spikes in
there to kick em up into growth and bloom. you should also consider plastic
over the pond in winter to keep the water open and the lilies growing a bit
so there isnt such a long start up time for them in spring. zone 3 is tough
on lilies. and they really need full sun all day if possible. Ingrid


"earhtmother" wrote in message
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ZONE 3 - I LOVE water lillies and have put several
into the pond and while they have always grown and flowered I have
never been happy with the amount of growth and now find that it is due
mainly to my ignorance of planting depth. Apparently I somehow
managed to miss the part about them being 12-18" below the water and
just "assumed' that since water lillies in the lake are at least 4'
below the water mine could be too...OOPPPSS. Now I need a way to
"suspend" my lilly pots so that they are no longer "drowning' in the
middle of the pond at 3.5'. I was thinking that since I plant them in
the perforated plastic baskets I could somehow "hang" them with rope
or ties from the rocks around the edge of the pond so that they were
18" down the pond wall but still accessible without climbing into the
pond