Water gardening in Containers

[Jackie Ramo]

I've not had a lot of luck with my small container water gardens and was looking for some tips on what works. Do you have a pump? Did you add dirt or just water, are the plants in pots within the pot. Seems I've tried just about everything but....

[Terri]

Last year I had several container wg's, they all did very well. Cat tails, iris, grasses, creeping jenny, etc were all in pots with soil - sorta stacked (little pots sat on big pots), floaters used were slavnia and hyacinth. I exchanged half the water once or twice a week with pond waste water. No pumps, no air. They also only got either morning or evening sun... too hot mid-day - water would get too warm for the plants. This year no container wg's, no time - but do have a very small bit of liner sunk into one garden which has a water lily, G. Cattail, blue iris, and fairy moss.... lily is producing blooms, iris is almost done blooming.

[Jackie Ramo]

What soil did you use or did you just pot them in gravel. All my plants are sitting in buckets of water looking most unattractive.

[Terri]

Honestly Jackie, the containers were each different - some plants were potted in plain old dirt (sandy soil mix from the yard) - some like iris just stuck in a pot bare root to stay upright... I didn't put much thought into the container wg's :grin: just pulled stuff out of the ditch and plunked them in.

[Jackie Ramo]

Oh fine, sure just make it sound easy !bonk :smile: