New to DG, so please bear with me... especially since I just posted this same question in the water garden forum. Here it is: I'm digging a seaside pond in a tropical rainforest area of Panama; coconut palms all around. The water table is very high, and hole will fill with brackish water, which I will feed with freshwater runoff, perhaps greywater. Temp consistently in the 80's and 90's. Any suggestions about beautiful, easycare plants that will thrive in and around the pond? Any flowering anything? Many thanks.
brackish water
Tossing on my Boots,I'll be right there!!!LOL,sounds like my kind of paradise!!
Welcome to Daves!!I'm sure you will get ideas from all over the world!
Sure would like to see a picture of it,before and after.I'm trying my darndest to get a coconut to grow.
algae, That is a tricky situation I wish that I had to deal with! Depending on the salinity after your gray water feed It would still seem like fighting a never-ending battle... Maybe for around the pond ,Pond Apple ( Annona glabra )and the only flower I can think of off hand that might handle it in the water is Spider lily (Hymenocallis latifolia) you might want to look around for a natural site that has the same sort of thing and look what grows there.. But it sounds like mangrove city to me : (
I can't be of much help but why don't you post this in the pond forum too? Might get a few knowledgable folks there.
Glory
Mar 14, 2003
Algae,
Living where I do we have a lot of brackish water around here and besides reeds and grasses there isn't a whole lot that will grow in it due to the off and on salt content. Let me look around in the next few days and see if anything special is growing that I just haven't noticed. I have to agree with Brugmania....mangroves.
Can't some elephant ears handle that? Those running, wild kind?
Glory
Mar 15, 2003
Weeds,
I'm not sure...I have never seen them growing here where the water is brackish.
Weeds, are those running wild elephant ears attached to a large gray body that trumpets out of a central leader?>??>
Do you have any idea what the salt level will be? We have some charts that will list plants that will tolerate .1, .2, etc. We irrigate with water from the Brazos River which has a salinity level of around .2. We've lost some plants because of it and are trying to be more careful. Don't have any idea what brackish water would be.