Water Gardening: summer in the frozen north, 1 by agedgardener

agedgardener wrote:
First let me say there is a pond under all those plant.They have flourished with the fertilizer supplied when the pond is cleaned out in the spring.The plant around th pond isperenial geranium..big root I think there is a taller one with flower that are almost black called mourning widow,I wouldn't recommend her as she likes ro spreriad her gloom all over the garden.There id Hosta 2 kinds,Ligularia dentaalso another black root or something,turtlehead,verbena.Fallopia japonica,a port merion .The bee balmand few lilies which arn't up yet The geranium is is invasive but very easy to control.Iy makes a great groundcver.I usually thin it out after it blooms and plant the thinnings around the yard where I don/t mow and want to keep the weeds down.There is a blue variety which blooms all summer but doesn't spread. I had the pond built 9 years ago a present for my 70th bithday.I keep a heater in the pond to keep my fish alive.This year they were just a good meal fir the racoon.My waterlilies overwinter in the pond too JOY