I'm not sure where to go on reddit for this question, but we just moved into a new build community and this runoff pond makes me sad. We have an HOA that unsurprisingly sucks and I'm sure will never plant anything here. I'm in North Texas, zone 8a.
Yall have any ideas of plants i can sneak into/around this pond? They mow around the edge periodically but thats all as far as maintenance or landscaping. The pond is new, but I see tons of crawfish, herons, other water burds, and a few (dead) baby turtles on the "shoreline". My guess is they just don't have enough food or shelter and just die or get got by the birds.
As you can see, the pond is very low right now so I wanted to take advantage and sneak some seeds or saplings of some kind while I have the chance. I'm not very optimistic of any plant survival as they are still building new homes and this pond gets ton of runoff of all kinds of icky. But its a pretty large pond and I'd hate to see it just sit there. I'll post various angles of it to give a sense of size. Its shapes like a figure 8.
Any thoughts? Ideas? Lemme know if this is a waste of time or if theres a better sub for this.
by matrixtrin
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How about wading into the pond and planting water lilies?
Check out native plant subs—they should have some good advice for planting in areas that aren’t going to be actively maintained and won’t harm the ecosystem
Try r/GuerrillaGardening
If you find kaolin clay pelletized native wetland seeds, or want to take the time to learn to bowl-roll pelletize them yourself, you could go out with a hip pouch every time you walk the pooches. Start tossing a lil bit of seed pellets each time you toss the ball around. Over the years, some plants will take, and eventually some will establish in the area.