Water plants are typically planted in pockets, crates, or containers to contain the soil. Pockets can be created during construction and used for all water plants. Pockets around the pool edge can hold marginal plants. Pockets on the bottom of the pond can be used for water lilies and other deeper water plants.

Crates or containers are commonly used for most water garden plants and offer flexibility in plant arrangements.
They also are easily replaced when plants outgrow them.
Regular top soil (without organic matter) should be used.

Crates with open slats should be lined with landscape fabric or untreated burlap. Plastic pots that do not have bottom holes also can be used. Most aquatic plants are heavy feeders and need fertilizing when planted and during the growing season.

Aquatic plant fertilizers are available in three forms.

1. liquid—added directly to the water
   for floating plants

2. tablets—added during growing season

granular—added when potting plants
Follow label directions for suggested amounts.

· Notice the water features in the natural landscape and at public gardens. What plants do well in your area?

· Include plants from all categories; proper plant selection is vital to the garden's success.  Follow planting directions to promote plant survival.

Space is limited in most water gardens so each plant should have a purpose---to add color, to add height, or to help deter algae.

Oxygenators: ... This group of plants can free float on the water surface or be planted in pots that are sunk to the bottom of ponds.

Marginal or bog plants add color and height to any shape of water garden. They also help blend an inground pool into the surrounding yard. Depending on the water garden design, these plants can be planted in pots set on underwater shelves, or they can be planted directly in soil around a pond or stream.

Waterlilies and lotus may be the best known of the group, but all provide contrast in the garden through floating leaves, upright spikes, and/or attention-grabbing flowers.

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)	Deep water aquatic plants that root strongly in bottom of pond. Leaves float on water surface.
Oxygenators (pond plants: type 2)	Totally submerged water plants. These aquatic plants can never exist out of water. They root or float rootless under water.
Floating (water plants: type 3)	These aquatic garden pond plants are small to medium and move freely in the pond.
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.
Marginals (pond plants: type 5)	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)	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.

·Find equivalent english name of aquatic plant when you are provided with latin name for the pond or aquatic garden plant