Planting Water Lilies

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KING1307

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Hey, just have a question for you all, i've had a bunch of lilies in my pond for the last few seasons. They were planted in a planter and doing fine, this spring i decided to separate them and i've already put them back in and they seem to be doing fine. My question is, do I have to put them in pots or can i just bury them in the bottom of my pond? I seem to vagily remember someone saying they need to be potted or else their roots will go right through the pond liner which would be horrible in my case. Any ideas?
 
You can direct plant them (if you don't have large Koi). They won't puncture the liner. Cattails and Horsetail are the only plants I know of that have a pointed and sturdy enough tap root to poss. damage a liner.

What kind of substrate?
 
just gravel, river stones to be exact about 1" - 3" in diameter. will the koi bring them up?
 
I have had all my lilies in pots and none the less by the end of the summer their roots are out of the pots and all over the bottom of the liner. When I clean the pond for the winter, I remove all the pots and pull up all the roots that have trapped gunk under and around them. If I had the roots out, the bottom of my pond would become a huge swampy mess.
 
jcjones36;4148588; said:
How deep will lilies grow. Will they grow in 5 ft of water?

I have seen them in 4' of water, but not 5'. You could invert a milk crate and place a potted lily on that in deep water.
 
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