2022 December 31: Some plants started on their own in 2 or the small pondlets above the pond.
At first they were just masses of vegetation in the water.
2014 June 19: Doing fine. Many narrow stalks.
2013 May 12: I dug the plant out of the soil in which I overwintered it and put it in the pond.
There were already some long thin green shoots and some of the old shoots were green inside. June 23: Doing fine. Many tall shoots. July 3: The water was clear and I saw many many white roots spreading throught the water. September 23: They are still fine. Many reeds but no flowers.
Of course, they don't get much nutrition in my pond.
I don't want to add fertilizer because of the fish.
2012 September 15: Did fine in the pond. Only leaves, no flowers.
2011 July 1: I dug what I think is a cattail from a ditch, put it in a pot and packed peat moss around the soil,
put the pot in a basket of gravel,
and sunk it all into the centre of my pond.
There is also some grass, reed grass I expect, with the cattail.
There were snail shells so I expect snails and who knows what else. September 27:It has done well.
The main old stem died but there are new stems to replace it.