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Bean Bog ... An attractive, easy-to-grow plant in any water garden! Exquisite white blooms, edged with pink appear from May to July. Fragrant flowers are supported on sturdy stalks 6-18" high. Best Source For Online Pond Plants and Water Lilies - Use special coupon # G5666 for 3 free Peacock Orchid Bulbs with any purchase!

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Globe Flower ... extremely large, golden-orange buttercup summertime flowers make Golden Queen an outstanding perennial. Excellent plants for marginal or bog gardens. Can be planted in other areas as long as it is kept constantly moist. Grows to 30" tall Prefers sun to partial shade. Best Source For Online Pond Plants and Water Lilies - Use special coupon # G5666 for 3 free Peacock Orchid Bulbs with any purchase!

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This dwarf cattail grows to less than 2' tall, so well-suited to small ponds or container gardens! Distinctive rounded brown seed heads on blue-green foliage. Survives very low temperatures! Best Source For Online Pond Plants and Water Lilies - Use special coupon # G5666 for 3 free Peacock Orchid Bulbs with any purchase!

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Marsh Marigold produces beautiful masses of flowers that resemble double marigolds from mid-spring through early-summer. An excellent planting at the edge of a pond. Can also be planted in water at a depth of no more than 4". Requires full sun. . We send number one plants. Best Source For Online Pond Plants and Water Lilies - Use special coupon # G5666 for 3 free Peacock Orchid Bulbs with any purchase!

marginal plants
Zantedeschia ... From Africa. Spectacular green foliage is topped off by lovely eight inch bracts. Plant this beauty in full sun with plenty of moisture. in up to 4" of water. Grows to 3' tall. Hardy in zones 8-10, treat as an annual in colder zones Best Source For Online Pond Plants and Water Lilies - Use special coupon # G5666 for 3 free Peacock Orchid Bulbs with any purchase!

 

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List of marginal bog type aquatic pond plants

Common bog or moisture loving garden pond plants

Moisture loving or bog plants prefer boggy ground which can be defined as that ground having an inch or two of water covering it at times. It should not dry out but it is best to keep the area wetted at least.

These tend to be colourful water garden pond plants and include many of the irises, lobelias, and candelabra primulas. Others are the day lily, goatsbeard, water avens, harlequin, clematis iris, yellow star flowers and lobelia cardenalis the scarlet flowers.

 

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