Pretty plants im palnign to get some like
taht for my pond

what type pf plant is this?
i just got it

o my god, im going to have to ask i forgot 2 .

ok thanks
i was told that it has a beautiful flower
cant wait till it blooms
actually its growing quiet fast and
has a really long roots

thats so kool the goldies are laying their eggs on the plant
however my koi is gobbling all of the eggs up
anyways, can someone please help me to identify this plant?
thank you

Thats a Water Hyacinth, and they have pretty purple flowers, and propagate like crazy. They produce little baby plants, which can stay attached to the mother plant, or you can just break it off, and it will grow on its own. It has a huge root mass dangling off of the plant, and is an excellent oxygenating plant, which means it provides more oxygen to your water than other plants, and, because of the huge root mass, absorbs much more nitrates than other plants as well. I have some of them even stuck into my veggie pond filter to assist filtration....
Unfortunately, its considered weed in some states (incl. Florida)....

There's a creek by my house that goes under a major street that is FULL of water hyacinth. It's so awesome when they start flowering because you just see purple everywhere... they spread very quickly though and each year they're poisoned so they don't cover the entire surface of the water.

thanks guys
i really had no clue about plants
can't wait till they flower
theyll probably flower because its summer B)

thats sweet stuff
i want to get me some

i got mine free
it was a trade i made
i almost forgot
can someone help identify the little lily plant next to the
water hyacinth
i got that plant when i bought my pond!
thanks

I cant see any lily, all I see is a big and a few smaller water hyacinth, and those little leaves all over the water surface are either bigger duck weed leaves, or the start of a new population of water lettuce.....Or is it my eye sight, sometimes I am not sure!

yeah thats what i mean
those little leaves
i think of them as little lily- sorry
i really have no idea what goes in my pond sometimes
cant even find my algae eater
theres no way i can entice him out is there

Update on my water hyacinth
my water hyacinth has just blossomed with ( you were right)
lovely purple flowers
i was quiet shock because the plants grow so fast
where there are no fish

Wonderful!! It looks so awsome with those flowers!! Now imagine a whole pond full with them!

that would be nice a whole pond of them
but the blossom only lasted a day
then the stem broke off and the flowers started to wilt
i was wondering how to propagate these plant
do you just brake off the roots?

I don't do anything to make them propagate. When the conditions are right, like the temperature and the amount of sun they are getting, they will start on their own by building little plants spreading out from the mother plant. As soon as the babies start to build their own clump of roots, you can brake it off.
Maybe the temperature is too cool right now, usually the bloom should last longer than just a day. Although it closes at night and reopens in the morning....

the temperature has fallen a few degrees and it has rained last night
i had a closer look and the stem hasnt broken off but
bent down into the water
you could be right, the temperature might have something to
do with the one day bloom
it was nice anyway, totally unexpected
i thought it was just a new leaf but i was shock to see 3 flowers growing