Specialist nursery for pond, marginal and moisture loving plants
Pond Plants
Our selection of pond plants includes floating pond plants for deeper water levels or marginal plants that will thrive at pond edges with their roots submerged. We highlight suitable plants for a small pond or container.
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Acorus gramineus variegata
(Variegated slender sweet flag)
Compact perennial with fans of slender leaves in green and cream.
- Position: MARGINAL - full sun or moisture retentive soil
- Soil: chalk / clay / loam
- Flowering Period: Late summer / early autumn
- Height: 0.1 - 0.3 metres
- Spread: 0.1 - 0.3 metres
- Planting Depth: Plant in shallow water at pond margins or in a wet boggy soil
- Dispatch period: April-October
£7.00
Alisma plantago aquacticum
Rosettes of grey green leaves and panicles of white flowers.
- Position: Marginal - full sun
- Soil: sand / clay / loam
- Flowering Period: summer
- Height: 0.5 - 1 metre
- Spread: 0.1 - 0.5 metres
- Planting Depth: Can be planted up to 20 cm in water or planted in wet soil along water margins.
- Dispatch period: April-October
£7.50
Butomus umbellatus
(flowering rush)
- Position: MARGINAL - full sun or partial shade
- Soil: sand / clay / loam
- Flowering Period: Late summer / early autumn
- Height: 1 - 1.5 metres
- Spread: 0.1 - 0.5 metres
- Planting Depth: Can be planted up to 20 cm deep in water or in soil along water margins.
- Dispatch period: April-October
£6.00
Caltha palustris
(Marsh Marigold)
A rhizomatous herbaceous perennial with deep green rounded leaves and bright cup-shaped yellow flowers. A sunny, cheery spring addition.
- Position: Marginal or moisture retentive - full sun
- Soil: Loam
- Flowering Period: Spring to early Summer
- Height: 0.1 - 0.5 metres
- Spread: 0.1 - 0.5 metres
- Planting Depth: Can be submerged in water up to 10 cm deep or planted into soil along the waters edge. Would also grow in a boggy/moist area of the garden.
- Dispatch period: March- September
£5.50
Caltha palustris var. palustris 'Plena'
(swamp marsh marigold 'Plena')
Double flowers of brilliant golden yellow with dark glossy green leaves.
- Position: Marginal or moisture retentive - full sun
- Soil: loam
- Flowering Period: spring - summer
- Height: 0.5 - 1 metre
- Spread: 0.5 - 1 metre
- Planting Depth: Can be submerged in water up to 10 cm or planted in soil along the waters edge. Would also grow in a boggy/moist area of the garden.
- Dispatch period: March-October
£6.50
Container pond pack - pond in a pot
(Perfect for buckets, tubs, sinks and pots)
3 x Marginal plants
1 x Oxygenator
Plants come packaged bare root with pots supplied. Has full instructions of how to pot up and position in your container.You will just need some aquatic compost or a low nutrient garden top soil (not compost)for potting up your plants.
- Position: full sun / partial shade
- Flowering Period: summer-autumn
- Height: 0.1 - 0.3 metres
- Spread: 0.1 - 0.3 metres
- Dispatch period: May - October
£22.50
Cyperus glaber
(Flat sedge)
Bright green grassy foliage with leafy bracts on upright stems and clusters of yellow green flowers late summer. Architectural plant.
- Position: MARGINAL or moisture retentive soil - full sun or partial shade
- Soil: clay / loam / sand
- Flowering Period: Late summer
- Height: 0.5 - 1 metre
- Spread: 0.1 - 0.5 metres
- Planting Depth: Can be submerged in shallow pond margins or planted in boggy wet soil.
- Dispatch period: May to October
£7.00
Equisetum japonicum
(barred horsetail)
Long hollow green stems with black bands. Good all year round interest. Vigourous growth so suggest it is kept and maintained in pots.
- Position: MARGINAL - full sun or partial shade
- Soil: clay / loam
- Flowering Period: year round interest
- Height: 0.5 - 1 metre
- Spread: 0.1 - 0.5 metres
- Planting Depth: Can be submerged up to 30cm deep in pond margins
- Dispatch period: April-October
£6.00
Glyceria maxima var. variegata
(variegated reed sweet grass)
Rhizomatous perennial with green and cream striped strap shaped leaves and green-purple panicles of flower in late summer.
- Position: MARGINAL- full sun
- Soil: clay / loam
- Flowering Period: summer
- Height: 0.5 - 1 metre
- Spread: 1 - 2.5 metres
- Planting Depth: Can be submerged in water up to 15 cm or planted in the soil along water margins and boggy areas.
- Dispatch period: March-October
£5.50
Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon'
(Heart-leaved houttuynia)
Herbaceous perennial mainly grown for its striking foliage of heart shaped leaves edged with cream and flushed with red. Flowers in spring are yellow with four white bracts at the base.
- Position: Moisture retentive soil - full sun or partial shade
- Soil: sand / clay / loam
- Flowering Period: spring
- Height: 0.1 - 0.5 metres
- Spread: 0.5 - 1 metre
- Planting Depth: Can be used as a marginal, planted alongside the waters edge or in boggy/wet areas
- Dispatch period: March-October
£5.00