Will this work?

[Sunshine]

It is a losing battle every year with my lilies getting pulled out of their containers. I am getting too old to keep pulling the pots up and replanting them only to have them ripped out in a few days. Has anyone tried to use a weight to hold them to the bottom bare rooted? I was thinking of getting rope to tie around the tuber and tie it to a plastic coated weight to hold it to the bottom of the pond. Thoughts?

 

[mrsclem]

I use plastic fencing over my lilies. Drill holes and zip tie down.

 

[BKHpondcritters]

I do what mrsclem does, but with welded wire fence.

 

[GBBUDD]

Get the plant established the get the stems sprouting and place stone around the base of the plant

 

[mrsclem]

I tried everything but my koi would just grab the plants and yank or worse yet, tip the whole pot over.

 

[addy1]

I don't have koi, but mine would float out of the pot. I used rope to tie the lily to the pot. Just a piece of rope over the tuber, put through holes in the sides of the pan.

 

[GBBUDD]

I tried everything but my koi would just grab the plants and yank or worse yet, tip the whole pot over.

Put some heavy baseball size rocks on the gravel fish can't move them and the plant will find openings to grow

 

[Sunshine]

I use plastic fencing over my lilies. Drill holes and zip tie down.View attachment 139073

That would work for next year before they come up. My pads are already up. But, great idea!

 

[Sunshine]

I don't have koi, but mine would float out of the pot. I used rope to tie the lily to the pot. Just a piece of rope over the tuber, put through holes in the sides of the pan.

That sounds like a good idea since my pads are up now. I don't think the Koi are purposely pulling them up, I think it's when they swim through the stems it pulls them out of the pot.

 

[addy1]

I used floating rope, after tying the tuber to the pan, I made a t-pee with the rope, now can just grab them from the side of the pond and move around. Use my mover thing under the rope and slide them around.

 

[Kurtkoinut]

My koi aren't very big, maybe 12 inches for the largest one, but I have my lilies planted in gravel right on my liner. I did use a few larger stones right on the roots to help hold them in place. This is only their second year in there, but they came back running this spring. The fish do nibble on the pads some, but they dont pull the plants enough to move them.