best outdoor substrate for Bowl Lilies

[Sgooosh]

we recently got a bowl lily, and it has been living in a bucket with some clay for a while, and has outgrown the bucket.
im wondering what i should put as substrate in the mini pond i am going to make.
is it just clay? or would rocks benefit it

 

[Colin_T]

What's a bowl lily?

Water lilies can be planted in aquarium gravel, sand or potting mix. For small plants in aquariums I use gravel, clay and garden fertiliser in a plastic icecream buckets. Bigger plants in ponds can be put in potting mix and a layer of gravel put on top to stop the potting mix floating away. Mix some slow release garden fertiliser or water lily root tablets in with the potting mix.

 

[Alice B]

I use cheap topsoil from home depot, and I use it for Lotuses too. And api aquatic plant tabs for fertilizer. Keep the bowl full of water too

 

[Sgooosh]

What's a bowl lily?

Water lilies can be planted in aquarium gravel, sand or potting mix. For small plants in aquariums I use gravel, clay and garden fertiliser in a plastic icecream buckets. Bigger plants in ponds can be put in potting mix and a layer of gravel put on top to stop the potting mix floating away. Mix some slow release garden fertiliser or water lily root tablets in with the potting mix.

mini water lily.

I use cheap topsoil from home depot, and I use it for Lotuses too. And api aquatic plant tabs for fertilizer. Keep the bowl full of water too

thanks, i will use clay or a mix of clay and potting topped off with gravel

 

[Colin_T]

When growing aquarium plants in pots, use a 1 or 2 litre plastic icecream containers. Put an inch of gravel in the bottom of the container, then spread a thin layer of granulated garden fertiliser over the gravel. Put a 1/4inch (6mm) thick layer of red/ orange clay over the fertiliser. Dry the clay first and crush it into a powder. Then cover that with more gravel.

You put the plants in the gravel and as they grow, their roots hit the clay and fertiliser and they take off and go nuts. The clay stops the fertiliser leaching into the water.