Don't ever poke holes in a liner. I don't know who started that fad but when you poke holes in the liner you just end up very sorry. Cattails don't even need to be in the pond. Just drive down 509 and look at all the huge cattails in the median and on the sides of the hill.

That's even a good place to get some. About a mile south of the 1st avenue bridge there are plenty.

Just dig a nice deep hole right at the edge of the pond and drop them in. Add some good quality topsoil and mushroom mulch and you should have cattails forever.

They don't spread out so much when they are just in dirt but they grow plenty tall.

Thanks webfeeet -- that's just the info we needed!

I made a bog garden for my cattails that is 10 ft by 13 ft. It has about 5 inches of standing water. I keep minnows and tadpoles in it also.

This type of bog garden looks best in the open where the cattails can be viewed from all sides. Cattails are really a wonderful landscape tool.

The bog garden doesn't have to be right next to your pond.