[MarkH]

At the park I work at we have a concrete lined pond we drain down every year. The plants are pulled out and used to kept in a lowered box with mulch over it. Didn't work to good. This year I pushed for and got a poly house to store them in. One of our LA's decided we need to bury the plants in pea gravel and then cover them with concrete blankets. The plants are all native to our area and if they were to grow in nature they survive without special care. How does anyone else take care of stock? This will help at least for next year since this years plan is written in stone already.

[ianc]

how deep are these concrete ponds -do you pump them totally dry or is thier some water left - I made up some steel cages and place all the waterplants in the basket and sink them to the bottom of the pond for the winter - I have a rope lead I tie off to
a tree or rock and in the spring feed my chain using the rope thru the basket and pull it out with the backhoe - I overwinter 40-50 tropical lillies and assorted marginals this way for the last 5 years
with great sucess

[MarkH]

The ponds are 2 feet at the deepest, however there is a bronze fountain that needs to be drained so the whole thing gets pumped totallly dry. We do have a 200 acre lake where we could overwinter, they don't because of the carp in the lake.