Creeping Jenny Question and placing plants in a pond.

[addy1]

I just leave mine in the water, it comes back. Trimmings get a shallow hole dug some dirt dumped on top of part of the trimming and it grows, keep a little damp for a bit.

 

[sissy]

Sad to say my fish destroy any living plant I put in my pond .

 

[HARO]

Sad to say my fish destroy any living plant I put in my pond .

You have to TEACH them, Sissy. BE STRICT!!
John

 

[Faebinder]

Sad to say my fish destroy any living plant I put in my pond .

Must be koi.

 

[sissy]

It doesn't work Haro .I have seen them laugh at me ,no respect .Y,but I see other people with koi and they have plants and koi

 

[bettasngoldfish]

Thanks addy, I will give that a try this year

 

[addy1]

Thanks addy, I will give that a try this year

I have spread over a lot of area doing that. Works well.

 

[pecan]

I have creeping Jenny in several places of the yard. The smallest little bit of stem will shoot off roots in dirt or water. I have trimmed mine back and left cuttings laying around only to find they sent out roots and started to grow. I've had some grow completely submerged under water. It doesn't even need a growing medium. You could drop a clipping into the pond and it would start growing roots if the fish didn't eat it.

The only issue I have had with it, is it can't tolerate direct high desert sun in the summer time.

 

[adavisus]

A wet Winter may not be to creeping jenny's liking, not many of these tressies coped where it froze and thawed

 

[addy1]

Mine survives wet cold winters, ice, snow, below freezing temperatures. Nothing bothers it.

 

[JBailey]

I have a creeper in a pot that sat a few inches in my little tub pond all winter. When we had hard freezes I upended a clear tote over it and the couple other plants at one end so the relatively warmer water might add some heat. The Jenny thrived (throve?) and made a nice curtain of rooty viney leaves across and into the water.
I just moved my goldfish into a bigger trough pond with a bog filter a couple of days ago, and plopped the pot of Jenny on a large brick to tide the fish over until I get more plants this weekend (some mini cattails and grocery store watercress in the filter).
The fish have been hiding out in the creepers and roots and eating them and the algae on it so far.
I kept Jenny from taking root in the ground next to the tub pond, but the new set up will have a bigger boggy area, so maybe I'll toss some cuttings down for cover until the rainy season comes back and I have my overflow/bog refill going.