Lily pads water lilies

[SarahT]

Thanks. They’re is a garden Center I go to near me but they always seem to get their pond plants in so late and then they go so fast. Last year there were two lilies left and they both looked half dead. Don’t know if they were local either. I’ll research a bit more. I’m sure there’s got to be a website somewhere that will tell me what types are native to Ontario. Do you have any suggestions for plants for a gravel bog filter. I had creeping Jenny and it seemed to do well but didn’t come back. I know it’s important for them not to have too invasive a root system so they don’t clog the pipes but I would think they have to be abundant enough to actually do some filtering

Creeping jenny probably isn't "hardy"/ perennial as far north as you are. I'll let someone else talk bog plants for the north, as I'm in west central Florida.

 

[Pond skipper]

Thank you

 

[Pond skipper]

Just don't cut off the tiny pads, buds from the tuber as those will be next seasons blooms. If you cut them off no more lily! Just cut the old dead ones.

Thanks, I’ll remember just to cut them down to the top of the pot/basket…

 

[GBBUDD]

Creeping jenny probably isn't "hardy"/ perennial as far north as you are. I'll let someone else talk bog plants for the north, as I'm in west central Florida.

creeping jenny does fine in 6

 

[j.w]

Says online hardy zones 4 to 9 for Creeping Jenny.

 

[Pond skipper]

creeping jenny does fine in 6

Did it come back in spring?

 

[addy1]

Try water willow, good to zone 4, great root mass. Pretty flowers

 

[Pond skipper]

Nice, thank you, I will definitely look for them

 

[mrsclem]

Did you drain your bog in the winter?

 

[Pond skipper]

No,I haven’t to this point. I didn’t even make a way to do it. Should I be?

 

[mrsclem]

Bog plants need to stay in water to survive. Draining the bog kills them.

 

[Pond skipper]

What if the bog freezes though mine will freeze any water left in it.

 

[mrsclem]

As long as the plants are hardy, they will come back. Tropical plants need to be pulled. I shut my bog down most winters. It is completely above ground and the plants come back.

 

[Pond skipper]

Do you drain the bog or just shut off the pump.

 

[Lisak1]

Depends completely on your set up. An above ground bog would need to be drained.