Pond-side planting suggestions - Zone 8b

Shmuel Silinsky via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:55:10 PST
Nice place to work with. I am zone 9 and can't vouch for hardiness but
would think some obvious choices would be water lilies, aroids like skunk
cabbage, Acorus cultivars, Crinum americanum, Hymenocaulis caribaea,
Wachendorfia (not really a bulb, but...), Colocasia...
Have fun.
Shmuel Silinsky

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 7:50 AM Carolyn via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

> I would plant some Japanese iris and or other water iris.  It may be late
> but you can try ordering rhizomes from Chad Harris at Mt Pleasant Iris Farm
> or Atkins Salmon Creek garden, Wildwood gardens or Ensata gardens.  These
> are all award winning hybridizes and where you will get the best at good
> prices and they will bloom next year.
> Carolyn Craft
>
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> > On Nov 23, 2020, at 8:36 PM, stephen willson via pbs <
> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
> >
> > I'd be interested in canvassing the PBS membership on possible pond-side
> planting suggestions for a Pacific Northwest Zone 8b location.  Since
> moving into our new house 3.5 years ago time has been spent on establishing
> more traditional garden areas in what was a cleared field, but my mind is
> now turning to a pond-side area that I think has some unique
> opportunities.  I attach two photos of the pond area - one in mid-summer
> when the water level is reduced by ca. 18 inches (45 cm) and one today with
> the water level almost at its maximum level.  There are three possible
> growing zones - a 'grass hinterland' (dryer in summer than in winter); a
> seasonally submerged zone; and an annually submerged zone.  What bulbs
> might one plant here?  I'm planning in advance as I expect several will
> have to be raised from seeds.
> >
> > Around the pond - excluding the cattails - I have some Yellow Flag Iris
> (Iris pseudacorus) that some would say are invasive, and I also have Iris
> setosa, which would work here too.  In the recent SX I received seeds of
> Iris laevigata and ensata which should work well pond-side.  Forms of Calla
> Lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica) should, I think, also grow in the seasonally
> submerged and annually submerged zones.  In the grass hinterland, species
> crocus, tulipa and Western American lily hybrids should do fine.  (I have
> L. kelloggii and pardalinum elsewhere in the garden, with other seedlings
> on the go.)
> >
> > I can't help but think that I am ignorant of possibly quite distinctive
> plants that could grow here.  I would welcome any suggestions.  I should
> add that in the 3.5 years that we have been here the pond has only
> frozen-over once for a couple of weeks in a cold-spell.  Zone 8b has a
> potential minimum winter temperature of 15 to 20 °F (-9 to -6 °C), but this
> would be relatively rare.  I am a mile from the sea, so cold temperatures
> are ameliorated somewhat.  Winter wet is probably the biggest risk to some
> bulbs, but those potentially suited to the seasonally submerged and
> annually submerged zones should presumably be immune to this.
> >
> > I would welcome any suggestions from the PBS as to what might work well
> here!
> >
> > Steve Willson,
> > Bow, WA
> >
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