Water Gardening: Problems with my potted plants. , 1 by cathy166

cathy166 wrote:
I'm no authority, but I think you'd do better with ensatas with that much water. There are water irises and wetlands irises. I think your Siberians and Japanese irises would do better outside the pond and in the ground. We have cold winters here in Connecticut, and our irises do well. The dwarf irises start out in the snow in late February. As soon as it gets a little warmer, the Japanese irises are the earliest followed by the tall bearded irises. The pond iris blooms very early also. It is somewhat insignificant, white bloom, and the pot sits in the pond. We also have dwarf japanese sweet flag which is a year round bog plant, but the bloom is insignificant.

The ensatas bloom last. These are some of the bog plants here: http://www.ensata.com/HTML/PlantPages/species_&_bog.htm