Pond plant selection Nine varieties of aquatic plant for the water garden

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• - Classic aquatic plant varieties for the bog garden and water garden- to maximise the value of a small parcel, picked and packed fresh, direct from the grower! • • • Substitutes offered where required• • • Please note, photo's indicate what plants are like when established 9 Varieties of pond plant for the new pond, A selection of aquatic plants all in one box! Waterlily • pond iris • Pickerel • Parrots feather • Water lettuce • Water hyacinth • Frogbit • Four leaf clover • Hornwort • www.pinterest.com/adavisus/pondering/
• Medium or large flowering size hardy Waterlily (Please specify which size may be preferred) Not a harshly cropped small side crown, a full size flowering plant ready for Summer to warm! Medium size lilies up to five feet wide, large varieties might spread wider. Start with 6" - 12" of water over its crown, the growing point where roots go down and lilypads and blooms go upwards. Any heavy, fertile dark loam with a moderate proportion of clay mixed in works well to start a waterlily. When a waterlily shows a lapse in blooming, consider fertilising with tomato spikes, taking care not to trigger algae blooms. Hardy waterlilies cope fine with Winter, set below the freeze line of ice on a pond. Take care ravenous hordes of hungry fish don't eat graze too hard on early waterlily foliage, consider starting your lily in a protected position when it begins to grow in Spring. Blue Flowering Iris (Iris versicolor) Height to 30" Growing happily with between, 0" to 6" of water over its rhisome. One of the most versatile and hardiest of aquatic plants. Establish late Summer, Autumn for blooms the following year. Well behaved growing habit capable of enduring the most aggressive grazing pond critters, extremely useful where large koi or turtles are about, creating shade and shelter for the 'little' critters on a pond, expect your favourite frogs to make it a preferred position for loafing. Iris versicolor likes to have a well formed set of roots developed before showing off the spectacular but brief flowers for a week or two in Spring An ideal plant for improving water quality creating an extensive network of nitrate sucking roots that cope cope well with fish grazing. The foliage creates good shade and protection for fish and critters
• Giant Pickerel (Pontederia lanceolata) Growing 4 to 6 foot tall, closely resembling the well known blue flowering pickerel 'cordata', this variety of pickerel grows at least twice the size with the distinctive lanceolate leaf shape much longer and elongated by comparison. An eye-catching aquatic of tropical appearance for the larger water garden, growing rapidly in full sun to part shade, with water 3" to 18" over its pot. Ideal shade for tiddlers, small fish and critters to hide among during the worst heat of the day Native to southeastern US, 'lanceolata' is less hardy than the more familiar 'cordata' variety try it indoors as a spectacular houseplant where it will grow easy in good light if its soil is kept constantly moist. Pickerel 'lanceolata' is a close relative of the water hyacinth, only much hardier in a freezing climate and prefers to set its roots into soil, grown alongside tropical waterlilies and water hyacinth you will be creating quite a luxuriant tropical effect 6 Parrot's Feather (Myriophyllum aquatica) Six strands supplied, about a foot long each. Ideal for the new pond starter, a pretty plant which spreads across the water surface creating long decorative tresses of light green feathery textured foliage. A quick growing habit very easy to tidy, so easy to plant, just place a stone on it on a pot of soil in shallow water and it will soon settle in and start wandering, ideal for masking pond edges with its beautiful foliage providing a light semi shaded area for little fish to feel safe in. Not just a pretty plant, its roots filter the water and helps to make life difficult for predators and algae.... A very effective 'fast foliage' plant A very pretty, easy to grow plant that scrambles in the water margin. The first thing it will do when planted in a shallow basket is to amble merrily out of it, with long tresses of bright green feathery foliage. A very useful plant for masking the edges of ponds, bring some sprigs indoor in Autumn
• Water Fringe, Floating Heart (Nymphoides Peltata) The hardiest of the Nymphoides varieties, well able to Winter beneath severe ice conditions, a very attractive waterlily type plant especially suitable for ponds where water lily root rot, crown rot, makes it impossible to grow many hybrid waterlilies... A charming, vigorous scrambler in shallow water, very useful for creating shade and shielding small fish fry from larger predators, this is a hardy waterlily like surface floater in appearance, with 2" leaves developing bronze markings in sunny positions. Once settled it rapidly twines runners through open water toward sunnier positions, plant 6" to 12" deep as a rough guide, in the water margin in a pot with ordinary soil or sand. Very delicate detailed yellow, poppy like flowers through the Summer season, small, held aloft the water. A particular feature of this pretty little lily like marginal, it is very shade tolerant, making earlier surface cover than the lilies, along its sinuous wandering stem quite tenacious roots - very well suited to naturalising and informal ponds - Three Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) Water hyacinth, a very decorative and easy to grow floating plant with exotic lavender blue flowers, ideal for a sunny fertile warm pond position, very useful for breeding fish which sprinkle their spawn on the decorative blue black feathery roots, this makes it easy to collect and transfer eggs to a safer place. Bear in mind small young water hyacinth often adapt quicker to a new pool than larger ones with established roots. - 5 Frogbit This listing includes 5 sections of frogbit, a distinctive floating plant looking rather like a tiny white flowering waterlily with feathery long roots, rather an attractive sight when it masses up in a small pond. the round pale green floating leaves have a quite thick spongy shape
• Four Leaf Clover (Marsilea) A very pretty little scrambling aquatic plant of the shallow water margin, similar in growing habit to Pennywort. Quite striking the four leaf clover look, especially when the sun is low and at an angle Very pretty confined to a small pond or tub to contain it where it would be easy to trim, otherwise it would go trotting merrily into other pots. Not to be let loose on a largish pond where it would be difficult to weed, fairly easy to control on a small pond or container. - Submerged Aquatic 'Coontail', Hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum) Hornwort is a brittle dense growing floating and submerged aquatic, very effective at 'dominating' water quality. An Aquarium plant: Hornwort forms brittle stemmed attractive foliage to some 24" length, dense masses at the surface, or when anchored to form an upright growing habit, widely tolerant of a range of water and light conditions, bright light will keep it growing strong however Three big 'plusses' using hornwort for indoor aquaria ~ Fish do not find it tasty to eat... ~ Hornwort contributes to improved water clarity as it exudes natural substance toxic to algae, literally it keeps algae 'off' itself.... ~ Particularly useful for fish rearing purposes for egg layers and live bearing fish, coping with hard water and providing effective hiding places for baby fish fry Hornwort as a pond plant: This is one submerged aquatic better than most at coping with fish grazing, it's the last plant in a pond they will try to eat... Hornwort grows extremely well in shady dull corner positions of the pond where little else thrives, very effective for attracting breeding fish to lay their eggs among the dense foliage, where the fish fry's chances of survival is quite high in a shady sheltered corner of the pond

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