If you have a pond with floating plants you probably already know that the plants tend to move around with the water flow and often get stuck in skimmers, corners or hung up in other stationary plants in the pond.  For example, in our pond we have water lilies in the back portion as well as several potted plants on the edges.  The floating water lettuce and water hyacinth plants are pushed around the pond from the movement made by the fountain and spitter and almost always end up tangled in the lilies or stuck in a corner, or worse yet, sucked into the skimmer.  We wanted our floating plants t