Floating Plants for Your Pond – Find the best pond plants that thrive on the water surface
Although they have a tendency to get a little over-looked at times, floating plants can have an important role to play in your pond, providing useful [...]
Favourite Bog Plants – A big list
Bog gardens are wonderful places – a no-man’s-land where the watery world of the pond meets the rest of the garden – and picking the right [...]
Invasive Pond Plants to Avoid – Which plants can’t you have in ponds?
We all want our plants to thrive and grow in and around our ponds, but there are some kinds which do so rather too well, and [...]
Marginal Pond Plants – Making the Most of Marginals
Wisely used marginal plants can play a major role in both making the most of the look of your pond and improving the overall quality [...]
Pond Edge Plants – Perfect Plants for around the edges
Planting makes any pond come alive and nowhere is a good scheme more effective than around the edge, to help blur the transition from water [...]
Oxygenating Pond Plants – Picking Oxygenators for Your Pond
Oxygenating Plants - Learn & Grow Oxygenating plants play an important role in maintaining the health of a pond, their submerged foliage providing food and [...]
Deep Pond Water Plants – Ideal Plants for Deeper Water
Say “deep water plants” and most people will instantly think of water lilies, but while they may well be the undisputed stars, they certainly aren’t [...]
FAQ: Pond Plants and Planting
Nothing brings a pond alive so quickly as a few plants. Whatever you want yours to be – a true water garden, a home for fish [...]
Pond Water Lillies – Choosing the Right Water Lily for Your Pond
There’s nothing quite like a water lily but adding one of these striking and instantly recognisable aquatic plants to a pond is not without its [...]
Plant Problems
A well planted pond makes a striking centre-piece in any garden. Although in general water plants tend to be less bothered by pests and disease than [...]
Planting Your Pond for Maximum Impact
Planting is the key to the whole look and feel of any garden pond. The lush foliage and interestingly shaped leaves of pond plants clothe the [...]
Small Pond Plants – Plants for a Small Garden Pond
There’s no escaping how attractive a well planted water feature can look, but if space is restricted, picking the best small pond plants for a small [...]
Pond Plant Baskets – Using Containers, Beds and Planting Baskets
Nothing brings a new pond alive so quickly as adding some plants. Once you’ve selected some good examples, all that remains to do is plant [...]
Managing Plant Overgrowth Within Your Pond
Once established, water plants usually grow very well, blooming and increasing in size with little need for much in the way of encouragement or assistance – [...]
Pond Plants for Free
For most gardeners, there is something quite irresistible about the thought of getting plants for free, whether to increase your stock or obtain something completely new. [...]
Growing Water Lilies – How to grow a water lily successfully
With their lush floating vegetation and elegantly showy flowers, water lilies are probably the best known and most instantly recognised of all aquatic plants and [...]
Plants for Your Pond – Water Soldier Stratiotes aloides
Water Soldiers (Stratiotes aloides) are a unique and fascinating plant species that can add both beauty and ecological value to a pond. Water soldiers are perennial [...]
Pond Trees – Choosing the tree for around your pond
There are few things which look quite so magical as the reflection of trees in water – their sweeping foliage bowing down to touch the [...]
Making a Bog Garden
A well stocked bog garden makes a natural partner for any pond, enabling a far greater variety of plants to be grown around the water than [...]
Creating a Bog Plant Shelf in Your Pond
Bog plants and pond marginals come in a wide array of colours and shapes offering unparalleled possibilities for planting your pond. A careful selection arranged imaginatively [...]