RE: NANFA-- willows and maybe cattails

Crail, Todd (tcrail_at_northshores.com)
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:45:12 -0500

I'd research that a bit Bob, for identification. The "prominent" cattail
species are usually invasive exotics, and I doubt you'd want a
proliferant-escape-happy plant in your native ponds :) Same story for
Phragmites, or European Reed. It's the frilly headed grass you can now see
featured in nearly every road side ditch, in this area anyway. It's actully
clobbering the cattails :0

Other notes... Cattails (native and exotic, and well fragmites too) are
alleopathic (produce chemicals that inhibit other species growth or flat out
kills them) and if I'm remembering correctly, they almost need anaerobic muck
to do well, as the nature of their tuber is tuned to those conditions. Not
sure if that fits into your pond plan.

It will be interesting to see what others come back with. :)

Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Bock
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 1:31 PM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: NANFA-- willows and maybe cattails

Hey, thanks, Ray! I'll defitely try rooting some from cuttings.

Has anyone ever tried growing cattails in a back yard pond--there are a
couple of ditches around here where they're prominent.
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. W. Wolff" <choupiqu_at_wctc.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Small Tanks- Fish Love Roots

> I don't know how this will work indoors, but I had a small weeping willow
I
> started in my one pond outside. During winter the rabbits chewed it up,
> essentially snipping the branches off and they lay along the shore. By mid
> spring most of these had turned into small trees. Having enough light was
> probably what helped. This would probably be your best bet to get
something
> going. No root hormone was needed for weeping willow cuttings in water.
> Ray

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