Pickerel - an excellent choice for the pond. Loads of flowers in the summer, and is much loved by bees and butterflies. It is hardy and will survive the winter if the roots don't freeze. If you have hard winters, after it dies back in the fall you can sink the pot down to the deeper water and retrieve it in the spring. Keep an eye on it, though -- it will jump the pot. Is a very forgiving plant. Can be divided when it gets too big, and give the extras to friends or to a water garden society. Water lettuce does not like full sun, so you might want to place it where it will get some shade or dappled sun. Multiplies very rapidly, so when the older ones start looking ratty, toss them out. There will be plenty of new ones to fill in the space! Water hyacinth likes sun, and reproduces as fast as lettuce. Koi love the roots. I keep my hyacinth in the stream, where it's safer, but sometimes I'll allow one to float down to the pond. The fish are on it in just seconds. Lilies. Can't really add anything else about those except that the tropicals are usually treated as an annual. Some people can over winter them inside the house. I tried last year, but a power outtage rendered my efforts useless. I've never tried primrose creeper. I'd be interested to know what you think of that one.

Thank you for your inputs jean001a and Gmamcgraw. 2 small plants have already given up on me :( i have 3 bigger plants and for now wiped the leaves clean with a cloth soaked in a solution of water with a few drops of dish washing liquid and oil (read on another post on this forum).. Please do let me know if you know a way to keep these off.

Do you think they would survive being mailed? Would you be willing to mail some of them,for postage? Thanks

Your call - and I'm glad you're content with your fertilizer regimen ........... but it's well known that high-P fertilizers are not to the liking of Hibiscus. After the factoring is done for how P is reported on fertilizer packages, your fertilizer provides 5-6 times as much phosphorous as the average plant wants or can use - and Hibiscus like much LESS P in relation to N as the average plant. Others should keep in mind that an excess has the same potential to limit as a deficiency. When the average plant uses 6X as much N as P, and Hibiscus even less, it's hard to justify supplying the massive doses of P contained in "bloom-booster" type fertilizers. Al