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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

 

Water garden plants - emerging marginal plants Similar plants to these grow in swamps and moisture loving water saturated areas. They like the edges of ponds where the depth is about 6 inches or so. They include reeds right through to low growing ground cover many with lovely flowers and variegated foliage. Marginal plants normally come potted up ready to place on the pond's marginal shelves. Tall marginal pond plants should be prevented from blowing over by weighting the pots down with bricks or heavy stones. You can buy pond plants and water lilies by clicking here Here is a useful marginal pond plants list for the average garden pond ... Acorus calamus variegatus .... Striped scented rush Callea palustris .... Bog arum Caltha palustris plena ... Double marsh marigold Glyceria variegatus ... Striped water grass Hydrocotle vulgaris ... Pennywort Iris laevigata ... Japanese iris Pontederia cordata ... Pickerel plant Sagittaria japonica ... Japanese arrowhead Scirpus zebrinus ... Zebra rush Zantedeshia aethiopica ... Arum lily Nigel Caddock, publisher of the greatest magazine around on koi (and I mean koi and nothing but koi) says only 3 things should appear in any koi pond: water, koi and oxygen. Nigel is of course a little bit biased - but a lovely person. There are many types of water garden plants for around a pond and it is always best to get local advice on availability and suitability of any water plants. Be aware that introducing water garden plants from the wild can introduce disease into your pond. The different categories of water garden plants can be accessed by following the links.