Nitrate Loving Land Plants

I have tucked a small single ponytail palm and a few small stems of Areca Palm in the planter along the edge because the pots of them I also have in my yard were having the exact same problem as the pothos originally did. Both are now thriving!

Correction: the Areca palm didn't have extensive enough of a root system to keep it anchored. It was ok for a few days and even seemed to be perking up until the weather changed and we had several windy days in a row. It kept getting blown over/out by the wind and had to be removed after several failed attempts to re-anchor it in multiple different ways.

The Ponytail Palm also seemed to perk up temporarily when just the roots were in the water and did fine for the last couple weeks it's been there. That lasted until yesterday when my son decided to "help" me by topping off the water garden and overfilled it. Once the ...rhizome? ...bulb? ...stem? ...became submerged because of this, it developed rot fairly quickly. I didn't find it until a number of hours afterwards and even tried allowing it to dry out but after more than 12 hours in the sun, if anything it was even more soft and mushy than the moment I pulled it from the water (that part of the plant should have been fairly firm to the touch similar to an apple or pear)

However, the pothos haven't gotten so much as a single droopy leaf so maybe I should just keep things easy and just stick with those for now.

 

Poney tail palms are succulants that will rot quickly if overwatered. They grow in fla year round with no supplemental water. Same with the areca palm in that it grows down here with no supplemental water. Pothos on the other hand can be grown in water . Maybe that is the difference with the plants that you tried. Alison

 

Poney tail palms are succulants that will rot quickly if overwatered. They grow in fla year round with no supplemental water. Same with the areca palm in that it grows down here with no supplemental water. Pothos on the other hand can be grown in water . Maybe that is the difference with the plants that you tried. Alison

That and there is also that I had them positioned in such a way for only the tips of roots to dangle into water and they did great...for a time. However, it only lasted up until my son overfilled and when they went from just root tips in water to roughly a third of the plants submerged thanks to his "help" then that was the end of them. I suppose he meant well, and I was able to salvage the Areca palm single it had only been blown over instead of drowned like the Ponytail Palm. I guess one out of two isn't too bad, right?