Water Gardening: Help with aquatic plants, 1 by caganimalover

caganimalover wrote:
My husband made our med to large size pond last fall. I was give and purchase enough plants that should have filled it up. One year later and I have fewer plants than I started with.
I have 1 umbrella that is doing better than the other plants. 3 Iris that are barely hanging on. Lizards Tail that has all but died down. (I noticed what looks like new growth below the dead mushy black plant today.) 4 Water lilies that are barely hanging in, (although I did have 2 blooms this summer).
Everything else has died. (moneywort, elephant ears, pikeral, horsetail, cannas, ginger, and I can't remember any others names).

Everybody I was given plants from and everybody I bought plants from said "just stick them in the water and they will multiply". Hogwash. The first 2 water lilies I planted were in the aquatic soil with rocks on top. The other 2 water lilies I got later; one had spaghum moss around it in a net and I put spaghum moss around the other then surrounded both with aquatic soil and rocks to hold everything down.

I am repotting all tomorrow and need to know how to replant these so they don't completely die on me.
~~~ Carol