Water Gardening: Need help potting nelumbo, 1 by PudgyMudpies

PudgyMudpies wrote:
Well, ONE of us has! LOL Turns out I did not even HAVE nelumbo, but nymphaea. LOL See what happens when I don't put on my glasses? 8~p
Here is my new pond area, I had to hurry this morning and get the flagstone set where it goes so I could get the walkway dirt in so I could seed it, decided to level them later cuz we were supposed to get rain today and all weekend, so fought the wind and got the grass seed down and came inside to get the camera & came out to sunshine! LOL Figures, huh?
Do you know of any groundcover I can put around the pond that can handle full sun and won't hurt the fish if it drapes into the water? I was going to put the stones directly around the pond, but then last week as I watched DH mowing the yard, banging into the flowerbed borders and stepping on plants to turn around, I decided to save myself sore ears and heart and pull them back from the edge. Only took me 27 years to figure out what WILL happen with him & a mower. Or a weedwhacker. LOLOL