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Re: Water Gardening


>I just bought an indoor *pond*.  It is eight sided, about 3 feet across,
>and about 15 inches deep.  I am interested in putting some water plants
>in the pond.  I have it in the living room; therefore, not in the bright
>sunlight.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions re specific plants, plant care, web
>sites, and vendors of these plants.
>


Water gardening indoors is very different than water gardening outdoors.
The light and temperatures are very different.  I suggest that you do not
look for regular water garden plants, but rather, aquarium plants.  There
are many good tropical aquatic plants to choose from, and many are
available from any good aquarium store.  There are tropical water lilies (I
would recomend the dwarf "aquarium" lilies rather than those giants that
people put outside in their ponds for the summer), various sword plants,
etc., that actually prefer to grow up out of the water, and often flower if
allowed to do so.  Whatever you choose, you will have to provide some light
to the plants.  A nice dramatic spotlight with a special plant light would
look wonderful.  There are several good books on aquarium plants and they
should show you plenty of pictures and tell you the prefered growing
conditions (water pH, amount of light, water depth).  Most of these plants
would prefer not to have a fountain in the water, so hopefully you weren't
planning on that.

Carie Nixon
Zone 5, Illinois
Water Gardener, indoors and out!

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