Water Gardening: On-line plants for my water garden, 1 by DRH2

DRH2 wrote:
Jessamine, I agree with you on the duckweed thing. I can get it going like crazy on top of the biofilters but the minute I put it into the pond it's --- belly up to the salad bar guys! Not only will they eat things like duckweed but they'll root around in the plants because there just HAS to be something in there to eat why would my owner have put it in here in the first place!! I've had them pull lilies out of pots and forget about trying to put a few marginals in without anchoring them with rocks. Then just when you think you've got it all figured out, anchored down, etc. the buggers decide to breed and trash EVERYTHING! Think teenagers having a party in your house while you're gone and they've brought in a keg or two of beer and invited everybody!! The picture below shows the egg mass laid on every water hyacinth I had in the pond (over 50-60 plants at that point) last year. Of course the blasted cannibals then went around and ate most of them such that 24 hours later - nada, nothing!