Accessory Aquatic Plants
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Submerged aquatic plants
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These plants cover the harsh line where pool and earth meet, and also provide a varied setting for your water-lilies, making your pool a more beautiful place in general. Even in a formal pool, it is a good idea to plant the corners and the center with a variety of graceful accessory plants. Some of the taller border plants are a must for the informal pool, too. As I have said, one of the charms of an inforn1al pool is that of seeing half a dozen different views as you approach from half a dozen different paths. This can be accomplished only by planting natural, attractive screens here and there about it.
Because the border plants do not produce the tremendous amount of foliage and bloom the water-lilies do, they do not need the rich fertilizer in their soil. Any good, heavy loam will suffice.
Three general levels of planting are employed for the plants listed in this section.
Those with submerged roots can be planted in 6-, 8-, or lO-inch pots, or in boxes, and set on a ledge or shelf in the pool at the water depth prescribed for them.
Those plants which do best with root crowns at, or just slightly above, water level must be planted in boxes or in built-in receptacles filled with earth to the proper level.
The third group includes plants which come from fairly dry land, but not so high above water level that roots cannot grow in marshy, saturated earth. I have indicated the proper level for each plant in the listing which follows.
The size of the plant mass which develops depends, of course, on the size of the container in which it is planted. If you want a plant to reproduce itself until it forms a sizable clump, allow for expansion by providing a large receptacle. If you want to restrict the plant to an individual growth or a very small clump, supply a smaller receptacle.