Beautiful water lilies and colorful flowering marginals add character, splendor and peace to any garden pond ...

These water lilies were specially chosen for their superior qualities of hardiness, vivid color and long blooming season. They will provide your pond with color all summer long for many years. All four varieties are winter hardy to -30 degrees and can remain in ponds during the winter where the water does not freeze to the level of the plant. They are easily stored for winter in colder climates. All bloom from June to September. Water depth for all varieties is 18-24". Planting instructions included.

Pond plant material helps reduce algae growth in ponds and adds oxygen to the garden pond itself. Plants which are used around the pond margin are called marginal plants.

Types of aquatic pond plant	Basics for each pond plant type
Types aquatic plants 1 to 3	Types aquatic plants 4 to 6
Water lilies (pond plants: type 1)	Water lilies are best suited to ponds about 3 feet deep. They need deeper water to flourish in general. Waterlilies are strong aquatic plants that root firmly in soil and debris at the bottom of natural ponds. Leaves float on water surface. Some water lily types only flower at night, while others are highly scented.
Oxygenators (pond plants: type 2 also called oxygenating aquatic plants)	The most important type of aquatic plant from the point of view of the pond's creatures. These plants do as the name suggest . They add oxygen to pond water. Oxygenators are totally submerged water plants. These aquatic plants can never exist out of water. They root in soil or float rootless under water.
Floating (water plants: type 3)	Some floating pond plants have become real nuisances in large waterways ... eg the water hyacinth. These aquatic garden pond plants are small to medium and move freely in the pond. They can grow at prodigious rates when a body of water contains lots of nitrogen and phosphate nutrients.
Partly emerging (pond plants: type 4)	Water pond plants like these root into mud and show strong growth and flowers project out of the pond water. There are many kinds of aquatic plants fitting this description.
Marginals (pond plants: type 5)	The edges around a pond are called margins. It is a point (in a natural waterway) where water floods on occasions and is generally moist to very wet and even continuously covered in shallow water. Certain plants love these wet shallow areas. Marginal plants create the longest list of water or aquatic plants. These water garden pond plants generally do not like drying out.
Bog plants (pond plants: type 6)	If a garden has a low lying point where rain tends to collect then this is a prime spot for bog plants. Similar to group 6 water garden pond plants. Wet mud is all that is required for these water or bog type aquatic plants to do well.

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Pond plants introduction: 

Water garden pond plants breathe somewhat differently to us. Typical pond plants breathe in carbon dioxide during the day (and breathe oxygen out) Pond plants breathe in oxygen during the night (and breathe carbon dioxide out). All garden pond plants behave as follows in a pond and are thus able to add real value to that environment: 

• Garden pond plants convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to oxygen in the water and use this carbon dioxide to produce energy in the form of sugars - photosynthesis.
• All pond plants consume nitrogen chemicals (mainly nitrates and phosphates) that build up in the water. Water cress is often used for this purpose.
• Garden pond plants have a limited filtering effect.
• Some pond plants are particularly good at oxygenating the pond water

•  Select plants for around a pond to blend in with the garden pond. Refer to the diagram in the aquatic plants link above left to see a diagram that will help you decide on plants for around a pond.

How many pond plants?

Here is a rule of thumb for deciding how many pond plants to add to your pond. To each square metre of surface (10 square feet):

2 bunches of oxygenating plants will look after this size of pond

1 Water lily - there is a massive range of these pond plants to choose from

1 Bog plant - these pond plants can also be planted around the perimeters of garden ponds.

You would of course combine plants into areas and not space them according to this rule of thumb.

Planting pond plants

Bear in mind that aquatic plants do get bigger so don’t over-plant your pond. For good water lilly care remember water lillys do not like splashing water or rapidly moving water. The water lilly often tends to like water deeper than 60cm.

When you plant garden pond or aquatic plants use specially designed baskets into which specially formulated aquatic compost has been used – low in phosphorous and nitrogen. Only ever use fertilizers made for pond plants.

An alternative to baskets for pond plants are normal plastic planting pots. Cover the top of the pot with pebbles or gravel to prevent fish disturbing the soil and roots of the garden pond or aquatic plants – especially if you keep koi.

For marginal garden pond plants planting areas use coco mats or coir as a means to hold the plant in position. You can also place a bit of special compost together with the coir for these garden pond plants. Place pebbles on the mat to keep it submerged.

Here is a clever trick for garden pond plants where you already have a pond and it is fairly deep and you want to place a largish plant in the pond. Get a second person to help and between you hold two ropes in parallel stretching across the pond. Allow the ropes to be placed beneath the ridge of the garden pond plants pot as if the pot was in a sling or hammock and then gently lower it into the pond.