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Water Gardens — Water lily pots
WHY
are water lily pots always perforated?
THIS allows a free flow of water
through the potting soil and root system and prevents this area
from becoming anaerobic. Anyone who has knocked a water plant out
of a hard pot will know what an anaerobic root system smells like
(and it’s not pleasant!).
Older baskets may require lining with hessian or coconut fibre to prevent the soil from seeping out, but all the modern water plant baskets require no lining.
Weekend Gardener, Issue 91, 2002, Page 20
Advice by Andrew Maloy, former Plant Doctor of the Weekend Gardener and Kiwi Gardener magazines
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