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!

 

All garden pond plants like normal plants do better if placed in the correct spot. Floating pond plants tend to be small to medium in size and move with the wind or current. Floating garden pond plants have hair-like roots that protrude into the water and need no soil at all. These plants certainly assist in keeping water clear since they absorb nutrients from the water and do a good job of oxygenating lily ponds. Water Hyacynth, or the Water Soldier plant are examples of  pond plants of this type. Floating garden pond plants assist with water clarification. Floating pond plants must however be controlled since they tend to grow rapidly. Some may even be proclaimed as weeds such as the Water Hyacynth in South Africa. Duck Weed, Water Lettuce, Water Chestnut are typical examples of floating garden pond plants. Other categories of garden pond plants differing from the floating class can be broken up as follows:  Oxygenators as a class of garden pond plants assist in keeping plant water clean and clear by absorbing nutrients. Potted oxygenators include Water Crowfoot, and Water Violet. Deep water pond plants the best known of which is the water lily Marginal water garden plants such as Iris, and Arum Lily which like to stand in water up to about 15cm (6”). Some can grow quite tall and be blown over by the wind so you may have to weight the pot or crate down with stones. Shallow garden pond plants or water garden bog plants like Marsh Marigold, Iris, Water mint. These plants like water about 5 cm (2”) deep and are good examples of pond plants.