At Seattle's annual Flower & Garden show I bought the very first 2 plants
for my water garden. One striped variagated canna and one pickerel rush.
They both had a couple inches of green sprout coming out of the wood chips
they were packed in. So I put them each in a pot of their own in the
Schultz aquatic soil you can buy in Home Depot and added a fertilizer pellet
thingy. Put them in the water garden and thought I'd watch them grow.
They've been there with no change at all for all of March. Is it too soon
for them to start growing? Should I not have put them out yet?

Thanks and happy spring!
Lydia

Lydia wrote Is it too soon
for them to start growing? Should I not have put them out yet?

Probably. Here in zone 7 (SE WA) I haven't seen any plant happenings with the
pickerel in my pond.
The iris are growing, the cattails and the marsh marigold is blooming but
everyone else is pretty quiet.
By May you should have a riot on your hands ;-)


kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

"Ka30P" wrote in message
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Lydia wrote Is it too soon
for them to start growing? Should I not have put them out yet?

Probably. Here in zone 7 (SE WA) I haven't seen any plant happenings with
the
pickerel in my pond.
The iris are growing, the cattails and the marsh marigold is blooming but
everyone else is pretty quiet.
By May you should have a riot on your hands ;-)


kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A


Ooo, goodie! Thank you!!

Lydia

As K30 said, and to add, they also have to recover from transplant shock.
~ jan


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:54:31 -0800, "Lydia" wrote:

At Seattle's annual Flower & Garden show I bought the very first 2 plants
for my water garden. One striped variagated canna and one pickerel rush.
They both had a couple inches of green sprout coming out of the wood chips
they were packed in. So I put them each in a pot of their own in the
Schultz aquatic soil you can buy in Home Depot and added a fertilizer pellet
thingy. Put them in the water garden and thought I'd watch them grow.
They've been there with no change at all for all of March. Is it too soon
for them to start growing? Should I not have put them out yet?

Thanks and happy spring!
Lydia





~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?)