Category Archives for Water Garden Plants
Aponogeton Distachyos – Water Hawthorn or Cape Pondweed
The water hawthorn is an excellent plant for deep-water ponds. It has attractive floating leaves that are more or less evergreen; and the vanilla-like fragrance of the blooms is powerful and lingering. After the main spring crop of blooms, plants … Continue reading
Encouraging Wildlife into Your Garden Pond
In a balanced garden there should be a stable food chain of prey and predator. For example, destroying all of the greenfly in a garden will deprive ladybirds and blue tits of food. And a garden without any slugs at … Continue reading
Plants for the Garden Pond
The attraction of a good pond is about far more than just the water. Once the pond is installed you can grow a wonderful selection of aquatic and moisture-loving plants with colourful flowers and foliage that combine to make your … Continue reading
How to Clean a Garden Pond
It is easier to clean a rigid sided pond than it is one with a flexible liner. With the latter there is always the risk of tearing the material as you walk on it or scrub it vigorously, particularly if … Continue reading
Building a Garden Pond and Choosing the Right Materials
Ponds need to be watertight and, within reason, it does not matter how this is achieved. When it comes to the material used to form the base and sides of your pond, there are three main options: 1. Preformed rigid … Continue reading
Recommended Water Plants for the Garden Pond
Submerged oxygenating plants To start a pool off the more submerged oxygenating plants there are the better. They can always be weeded out with a rake if they become too prolific. They are generally supplied as cuttings and may be … Continue reading
Planting Around Your Garden Pool
The sight and sound of running water can be psychologically as well as physically cooling. Falling water helps to stimulate water movement, dissipating harmful gases and forcing some oxygenation of the water. Trees should not be planted too close to … Continue reading
Floating Plants for the Garden Pond
Hottonia palustris – Water Violet Although officially a water plant, this subject does well in the wet margins of the pool. Growth can be anything between one and two feet and the stems, which rise from the tufts of deeply … Continue reading
Oxygenating Plants for the Garden Pond
Too often what could have been a beautiful pond becomes a stagnant puddle of evil smelling green water. The reasons are not too difficult to discover. Usually this sad state of affairs is due to a combination of factors: insufficient … Continue reading
Moist Garden Plants Suitable for Garden Ponds
Trollius europaeus – Mountain Globe Flower Many differing varieties. Grows to about 16 inches. Lemon yellow flowers. A deep, rich soil, moist but not wet, near to the margins of your pond should suit this variety well. Fritillaria meleagris – … Continue reading