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Prevention: Before your leaves begin to fall, covering your pond with Pond Netting is recommended. Keeping out as much dead organic material as possible will help with pond fish survival. After the first frost remove any dead/dying tropical pond plants and trim back any hardy pond plants.
Maintenance: Maintain your pond with Microbe-Lift Autumn/Winter Prep. This helps to accelerate the decomposition of leaves and other organic matter in your pond. Microbe-Lift Autumn/Winter Prep also helps to maintain a healthy immune system in your fish and will help to jump start your pond to a healthier environment in the Spring.
Cold Weather Fishfood: As water temperatures drop in the Fall the metablolism of pond fish slows considerably. A Floating Pond Thermometer is highly recommended for knowing when to change foods and when to stop feeding completely. Once water temperatures drop below 60 degrees it is better to switch to either Microbe-Lift Cold WeatherFood or Tetra Spring/Fall Diet. Both fishfoods are wheat germ based which is more easily digestible for the fish. They also have higher fat contents to help prepare your pond fish for winter. Stop feeding completely at water temperatures below 50 degrees.
Algae Control: Algaecides are ineffective in water temperatures below 50 degrees. Microbe-Lift Barley Straw Extract helps to prevent the growth of string algae even in freezing temperatures. A Floating Pond Thermometer is recommended.
Pond De-Icers:Shortly before your pond reaches freezing temperatures, add a Floating Pond De-Icer to your pond. Ice covered ponds trap toxic gases, causing your pond fish to suffocate. A Floating Pond De-Icer will allow an exchange of oxygen and gases.

Submerged Pond Plants

Submerged pond plants are a must for any water garden. They compete with algae for nutrients in the water, which helps to keep your pond clear. They can be planted in a small pot with gravel or weighted with one of our plant weights. Submerged pond plants also can be a source of food for your fish, as well as provide a place for them to hide. Submerged pond plants are great oxygenators.
Cabomba - Featured Submerged Pond Plant
Cabomba is a fast growing submerged pond plant with attractive reddish-green fan shaped leaves. Cabomba grows small white flowers and when established is a very attractive looking submerged pond plant.

Floating Pond Plants

Is your water cloudy? Do you want your pond to be clear? If so Floating Pond Plants are just what you need. Floating Pond Plants both shade the water and compete with algae for nutrients. Most Floating Pond Plants are fast growing pond plants, allowing them to shade more of your pond and use more nutrients. Floating Pond Plants are by far our most popular type of pond plants we ship about 150,000 Floating Pond Plants every year.
Water Hyacinth - Featured Floating Pond Plant
The Water Hyacinth, also known as blue shellflower, is perhaps the fastest grower of any of the floating pond plants. With deep green leaves and light purple flowers the water hyacinth makes your pond look nice while also restricting algae growth.

Trapdoor Pond Snails and Bullfrog Tadpoles

Have string algae on the sides of your pond? Want a natural way to help clean your pond? Think Trapdoor Pond Snails or BullFrog Tadpoles. These little guys like to chow down on the string algae growing on the sides of your pond.
Black Japanese Trapdoor Pond Snails (Viviparis malleatus)
Some types of pond snails are egg-laying snails and will lay thousands of eggs and over-populate your pond. Trapdoor pond snails are a live-bearing snail that will not take over your pond. Trapdoor Pond Snails are hardy and can repair their shells if there are cracks or holes in them. We can ship trapdoor pond snails year-round. Pond snails are sold in quantities of 5 (See pond snails page for price breaks).

Hardy Water Lilies

Hardy water lilies are a time tested favorite for water gardens.Hardy water lilies are a perennial pond plant that provides both color and shade to your pond. The leaves of hardy water lilies provide a place for small pond fish to hide from predators. We have red, white, pink, yellow, peach-orange, and changeable hardy water lilies for sale.
Buy 3 or more hardy water lilies and/or tropical water lilies, and get $2 off the price of each.
Buy 10 or more hardy water lilies and/or tropical water lilies, and get $5 off the price of each.
Water lily discounts apply to any combination of hardy water lilies or tropical water lilies. Discount excludes unsorted water lilies.
Clyde Ikins - Featured Hardy Water Lily
The Clyde Ikins water lily is a peach-ish orange water lily with a peony-shaped blossom. The Clyde Ikins is a solid grower with mottled leaves, and it blooms all season long. Clyde Ikins is one of the earliest blooming hardy water lilies, and the blooms are delightfully fragrant. Clyde Ikins is a medium size water lily that is shade tolerant, allowing the blooms to stay open later in the day when other water lilies close their blooms.

Tropical Water Lilies

Tropical water lilies are a luxury pond plant. Tropical water lilies cost more and in most planting zones will only survive one season, but Tropical water lilies offer some of the most beautiful blooms. In general tropical water lilies are have larger leaves and bloom more often than hardy water lilies. We have blue, green, purple, red, pink, and yellow tropical water lilies for sale.
Buy 3 or more tropical water lilies and/or hardy water lilies, and get $2 off the price of each.
Buy 10 or more tropical water lilies and/or hardy water lilies, and get $5 off the price of each.
Water lily discounts apply to any combination of tropical water lilies or hardy water lilies. Discount excludes unsorted water lilies.
Leopardess - Featured Tropical Water Lily
Inter-mixed purple and green make the leaves of the Leopardess water lily quite striking. Large blue full blooms make the Leopardess one of the most eye catching tropical water lilies in our selection. The Leopardess, an excellent bloomer, would make a great tropical water lily for your pond.

Our unsorted water lilies are the best price anywhere. The unsorted water lilies are sold by color. Unsorted water lilies are one of our named varieties that has grown in a mixed pond of the same color water lilies, so the exact variety is unknown. We have red, peach/orange, yellow, white, pink, and changeable unsorted water lilies for sale.

Buy Your Pond Plants Direct From The Grower
We are the Water Garden Enthusiast Source for Pond Plants and Water Garden Products
Lilyblooms Aquatic Gardens is a mail order water garden company in North Canton, Ohio. We offer a complete line of water garden products, trapdoor pond snails, and pond plants including water lilies, bog plants, pond liners, water garden pumps, waterfall pumps, water garden filters, pond filters, koi and pond fish. Thank you for your interest in our pond plants and complete line of water garden products. We have all the pond plants and pond supplies you need to make your water garden a complete success. We are dedicated to growing great pond plants and we thank you for being part of our heritage. We are continuously looking for new pond plants and new pond products to make your water garden more enjoyable and easier to maintain. If you have any questions about our pond plants, japanese trapdoor pond snails, pond supplies, koi, or goldfish call us at 1-800-921-0005.