How To Plant Pond Plants In Your Pond! - Garden Guides 

It’s so overwhelming 😅 I set up a little 15-20 whisky barrel and was fine but now I’m upgrading and have more plants and space in a 40 gallon stock tank and I’m like what substrate? Do I need a substrate?! What potting media?! Do I need potting media? What rocks are safe?! Which plants?!? Sooo much research and planning. I put some water in the pond and then we had torrential downpour for two days and it ended up filling the whole thing up 😳 so now there’s beautiful fresh water in there but no substrate! 😩 and I search around and half people say you don’t need it, and others have it down to a science with three different layers 🫠

The max death you want to go with a water lily is 4 feet. The pads really struggle to reach the surface if you go any deeper.

Same method ig🤷‍♀️

Great question. You are exactly right. We are placing them right between the rocks and just making sure they’re secure. However, we do sometimes pop them up. It’s a 50-50 shot where they come back. if it’s a particular elephant ear that I’m very fond of, I will remove them and winter them over in a cool dry space.

@@JVISecretGardens Great answer! Thank you for the knowledge share. Side note, been by the garden center a few times, your ponds and features look amazing!

@@loisjones2158 Some of our faves are pickerel rush, Thalia, water lilies, rumex, and lotus! A good rule of thumb is to plant 1/3 of your pond so it will grow into 2/3 or your pond when mature. Then you can thin them back annually to keep them from getting overgrown!

So glad this was helpful.

It is. It was just a little piece that actually broke off of an annual planter and I just tucked it in the rock work.

Its gorgeous! Will it survive winter in the pond? I'm in zone 6 and would love to try this plant here.

I like the Aquascape aquatic planters because they are flexible. They last a really really long time. I do recommend to always take the plant out of its original container and bump it up into a bigger size planter. This allows for more route development in the more beautiful plants. aquascape-usa.com/products/aquascape-fabric-plant-pots-2-pack?variant=44704105759001&currency=USD&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIh9WOyLTIgAMV1DfUAR0DDgDgEAQYECABEgJti_D_BwE

Water Lilies Tropical Water Lilies (Robust Bloomers Spring-Fall) - Flowering Hardy Water Lilies (Hardier Lilies Blooms Spring-Fall) - Flowering Tall Height Marginals Cattails (Dwarf and Giant Typha laxmannii) - Non-Flowering Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia) - Non-Flowering Giant Papyrus (Cyperus giganteus) - Non-Flowering Dwarf Papyrus (Cyperus giganteus ) - Non-Flowering Horsetail (Equisetum hymale) - Non-Flowering Dwarf Umbrella Palm (Cyperus alternifolius ‘Gracilis’) - Non-Flowering Hardy Water Canna (Thalia dealbata) - Flowering Iris (Iris virginica) - Flowering Blue Bells / Mexican Petunia (Ruellia brittoniana) - Flowering Pickerel Rush (Pontederia cordata) - Flowering Medium Height Marginals Sweet Flag Grass (Acorus calamus) - Non-Flowering Rush Grasses Varieties - Blue, Corkscrew, Afro (Juncus) - Non-Flowering Variegated Water Celery (Oenanthe javanica) - Rarely-Flowering Water Pennywort (Hydrocotyle verticillata) - Non-Flowering Parrot’s Feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) - Non-Flowering Short - Ground Cover Marginals Brass Buttons (Cotula coronopifolia) - Flowering Memory Herb (Bacopa monnieri) - Flowering Floating and Lily-Like Plants Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes ‘Rosetta’) - Non-Flowering Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) - Flowering Water Poppy, Water Snowflake, Floating Heart (Nymphoides family) - Flowering Mosaic Plant (Ludwigia sedioides) - Non-Flowering Variegated Water Clover(Marsilea mutica) with floating leaves - Non-Flowering

Hardy water lily, Pickerrell rush, creeping Jenny, impatiens, elephant, ear, and coleus.

You bet!

Lava rock is just fine. It actually gives surface area for micro enzymes to grow to help. Keep your Pond healthy. I recommend using a heavier rock as it makes it more difficult for the Koi to disturb the plant. I have a feeling that probably won’t like the texture of the lava rock and will leave it alone. You might be something to some thing here. Let us know how it goes.

We sell them at our garden center.

Yes. Plants are natural filters. Removing Nitrogen, Nitrates from the water.

Good fall choices for Tennessee include bush or snap beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, cucumbers, kale, leaf lettuce, Irish potatoes, mustard, radish, spinach, summer squash, tomatoes and turnips.

@@JVISecretGardens Thank you so much! I started my first garden this year and this will help me continue through the winter.

In the past I have put my Lilly in the pond in the container it came in. I am going to try this and see if they do better. Thanks.

Zone 7. Lotus, Water Lillies, Pickerel Rush, Zephyr Plant, Creeping Jenny, Cardinal Flower, Elephant Ears, Sweet Flag, Thalia, and Rumex, to name a few.

The roots won’t do through the liner? I’m new to this… 😊

@@Erandi8888 No, the roots will not go through the liner.

Thanks a ton Mate, the pond and ideas look very good and practical. Just a question , if I take the pot aquatic plants and grow into the pond over PVC liner, can the roots dig through the Liner in some time?

I absolutely agree, you want bare roots as they add filtration to your water to make it crystal clear. Yes, cyiu do pot water lillies but nothing else. If roots grow to large you can always trim them back.

@@debbieesparza110 I didn't pot the water lilies either, just some rocks holding them to the bottom and they are growing like weeds!

Thanks for watching!

As little as 8 inches and up to 4 feet.

Absolutely.

😂 Sounds like they are very happy.

Yes you can. Make sure not to submerge to deep.

Thanks 😁