A few months back I posted about some strange plant babies in my "soon to
be" community tank. This tank was populated with pond remnants, Water
Hyacinths and Hornwort, when I cleaned out the pond. Then about four months
after I started the plant tank, the water babies appeared.

Turns out they're Frogbit, which I fed to the GF during the summer. I don't
know why it took months to come back, but now I'm inundated.

"Bill Stock" wrote in message
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A few months back I posted about some strange plant babies in my "soon to
be" community tank. This tank was populated with pond remnants, Water
Hyacinths and Hornwort, when I cleaned out the pond. Then about four
months
after I started the plant tank, the water babies appeared.

Turns out they're Frogbit, which I fed to the GF during the summer. I
don't
know why it took months to come back, but now I'm inundated.
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Frogbit? I wonder if we're thinking of the same plant - mine were about 4"
across, floated and had white flowers. I had it one summer but it died out
over the winter. They place I bought it gave me the wrong information. I
would have brought it in had I known it wouldn't survive a zone 6 winter.
It was a nice floating plant.
--
McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
"To persevere in one's duty and
be silent, is the best answer to calumny."
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

"Reel McKoi" wrote in message
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Frogbit? I wonder if we're thinking of the same plant - mine were about
4"
across, floated and had white flowers. I had it one summer but it died
out
over the winter. They place I bought it gave me the wrong information. I
would have brought it in had I known it wouldn't survive a zone 6 winter.
It was a nice floating plant.
snip

The frogbit that Jim and Phyllis gave me last year, took over. It was a
voracious grower, but easy to remove.


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"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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"Reel McKoi" wrote in message
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Frogbit? I wonder if we're thinking of the same plant - mine were about
4"
across, floated and had white flowers. I had it one summer but it died
out
over the winter. They place I bought it gave me the wrong information.
I
would have brought it in had I known it wouldn't survive a zone 6
winter.
It was a nice floating plant.
snip

The frogbit that Jim and Phyllis gave me last year, took over. It was a
voracious grower, but easy to remove.

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There seems to be several water plants known as "frogbit." Mine wasn't that
evasive and the small white flowers were so pretty. If I see it locally
again I'll buy some and keep in indoors over the winter as I do my water
lettuce. I'm finding water hyacinth almost impossible to keep alive over
the winter.
--
McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
"To persevere in one's duty and
be silent, is the best answer to calumny."
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o