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So many plants, so little room
As ponds are starting to overgrow, more people are giving away plants. I'm
looking for cheap suggestions about planting emergent bog plants out of the pond and probably in dirt=no mosquitos. I thought of digging oversized holes, lining with a trash liner and refilling with dirt or possibly a vermiculite lighter potting soil. Is this kind of thing feasible? Would you mulch them to decrease evaporation? Any plants more appropriate? I've already eliminated water lilies, submerged and floating plants Thanxx Bill Brister - Austin, Texas |
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My taro jumped the pot, then the pond and now grows outside the pond most of
the way down one side, about 12 feet, so it will do well outside the pond. I had some water iris that I got tired of in the pond and planted it near the pond and it grew to a mound of about 8 foot across. (Dug it up this year) I have volunteer lizards tail growing as well outside the pond as in the pond, and the same with horse tail rush. All of the marginal plants are plants that grow well near a lake or stream, where they are sometimes in the water and at other times high and dry. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/index.html "Newbie Bill" wrote in message . .. As ponds are starting to overgrow, more people are giving away plants. I'm looking for cheap suggestions about planting emergent bog plants out of the pond and probably in dirt=no mosquitos. I thought of digging oversized holes, lining with a trash liner and refilling with dirt or possibly a vermiculite lighter potting soil. Is this kind of thing feasible? Would you mulch them to decrease evaporation? Any plants more appropriate? I've already eliminated water lilies, submerged and floating plants Thanxx Bill Brister - Austin, Texas |
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My taro jumped the pot, then the pond and now grows outside the pond most
of the way down one side, about 12 feet, so it will do well outside the pond. I had some water iris that I got tired of in the pond and planted it near the pond and it grew to a mound of about 8 foot across. (Dug it up this year) I have volunteer lizards tail growing as well outside the pond as in the pond, and the same with horse tail rush. All of the marginal plants are plants that grow well near a lake or stream, where they are sometimes in the water and at other times high and dry. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/index.html "Newbie Bill" wrote in message . .. As ponds are starting to overgrow, more people are giving away plants. I'm looking for cheap suggestions about planting emergent bog plants out of the pond and probably in dirt=no mosquitos. I thought of digging oversized holes, lining with a trash liner and refilling with dirt or possibly a vermiculite lighter potting soil. Is this kind of thing feasible? Would you mulch them to decrease evaporation? Any plants more appropriate? I've already eliminated water lilies, submerged and floating plants Thanxx Bill Brister - Austin, Texas |
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My taro jumped the pot, then the pond and now grows outside the pond most of
the way down one side, about 12 feet, so it will do well outside the pond. I had some water iris that I got tired of in the pond and planted it near the pond and it grew to a mound of about 8 foot across. (Dug it up this year) I have volunteer lizards tail growing as well outside the pond as in the pond, and the same with horse tail rush. All of the marginal plants are plants that grow well near a lake or stream, where they are sometimes in the water and at other times high and dry. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/index.html "Newbie Bill" wrote in message . .. As ponds are starting to overgrow, more people are giving away plants. I'm looking for cheap suggestions about planting emergent bog plants out of the pond and probably in dirt=no mosquitos. I thought of digging oversized holes, lining with a trash liner and refilling with dirt or possibly a vermiculite lighter potting soil. Is this kind of thing feasible? Would you mulch them to decrease evaporation? Any plants more appropriate? I've already eliminated water lilies, submerged and floating plants Thanxx Bill Brister - Austin, Texas |
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My taro jumped the pot, then the pond and now grows outside the pond most of
the way down one side, about 12 feet, so it will do well outside the pond. I had some water iris that I got tired of in the pond and planted it near the pond and it grew to a mound of about 8 foot across. (Dug it up this year) I have volunteer lizards tail growing as well outside the pond as in the pond, and the same with horse tail rush. All of the marginal plants are plants that grow well near a lake or stream, where they are sometimes in the water and at other times high and dry. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/index.html "Newbie Bill" wrote in message . .. As ponds are starting to overgrow, more people are giving away plants. I'm looking for cheap suggestions about planting emergent bog plants out of the pond and probably in dirt=no mosquitos. I thought of digging oversized holes, lining with a trash liner and refilling with dirt or possibly a vermiculite lighter potting soil. Is this kind of thing feasible? Would you mulch them to decrease evaporation? Any plants more appropriate? I've already eliminated water lilies, submerged and floating plants Thanxx Bill Brister - Austin, Texas |
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My taro jumped the pot, then the pond and now grows outside the pond most of
the way down one side, about 12 feet, so it will do well outside the pond. I had some water iris that I got tired of in the pond and planted it near the pond and it grew to a mound of about 8 foot across. (Dug it up this year) I have volunteer lizards tail growing as well outside the pond as in the pond, and the same with horse tail rush. All of the marginal plants are plants that grow well near a lake or stream, where they are sometimes in the water and at other times high and dry. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/index.html "Newbie Bill" wrote in message . .. As ponds are starting to overgrow, more people are giving away plants. I'm looking for cheap suggestions about planting emergent bog plants out of the pond and probably in dirt=no mosquitos. I thought of digging oversized holes, lining with a trash liner and refilling with dirt or possibly a vermiculite lighter potting soil. Is this kind of thing feasible? Would you mulch them to decrease evaporation? Any plants more appropriate? I've already eliminated water lilies, submerged and floating plants Thanxx Bill Brister - Austin, Texas |
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