If you buy pond plants, for example, in a garden centre, they should be transferred to a pond as quickly as possible. To this end these pond plants should be put in pond baskets. You can usually buy them along with the water plants. Buy simultaneously pond soil with clay and you can set to work at once. Line the inner side of coarse-threaded plant baskets with cloth in order to prevent soil from rinsing out. After filling with pond soil and placing a plant the cloth liner is folded up and covered with gravel. You can also opt for flexible plant baskets made from woven material. Please remember that plant roots need quite some space, therefore choose your pond baskets not too small.