I don';t know why, but when we were looking for aquatic plants we had
a lot of problems finding them, now that we have some they seem to be
turning up most everywhere we go, and at cheap prices. Last night
while we were in a store called "PETSMART" they had a large display of
aquatic plants, and their inventory had just about all the plants you
could imagine that are normally found in a water garden or pond...
These are all preplanted in a basket, and come with free samples of
fertilizer as well. They had about 10 different kinds of Iris, and the
wife fell in love with the Black Iris, so needless to say she bought a
pretty decent stock of those. Best thing is they are all discounted
from 50 to 75 percent.

I picked up a bunch of combo kits, which include 1 or 2 miniature
water lillies, and horsetail, or cat tails, and an iris.............so
you get 3 or 4 or so plants in one box / basket for $2.96. Talaked
to an older lady that was looking at the items and she said they will
hold just fine until its time to plant if they are kept dry and in the
dark........she had a shopping cart packed full of the plants, and so
did we when we left.

BTW all but one of the plants we got at closeout prices at Lowes are
showing signs of life.Every single water lilly is putting out new
shoots and leaves, but the horsetails may be history.....
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