Pond Plants

NATURE POND

Plants are an important part of any pond, they not only add to the overall health of the pond but also they make the pond look how nature would have made it. But the type of plant you use is up to you, remember you are the designer after all. So you should enjoy this part of your pond build.

So to be at this point then you will have your pond installed and have treated the water with a conditioner to rid it of toxins. The next step is pond plants.

Lets have a look into what type of pond plants are best to for us to use. The most common or should I say the plant that would probably spring to most peoples mind when thinking of ponds are

Water Lillie’s. These are great pond plants and not only look fantastic especially when they bloom in the summer but also provide shade for the pond.

Water Lettuce  and Fairy Moss are just two of the varieties of floating plants, again these will provide shade for the pond and are not rooted as they just float on the surface of the pond.

Marsh Marigolds and grasses and reeds are plants that are plant in shallow water so they are ideal for the higher shelves around the edge of the pond.

Oxygen Plants grow in the water and don’t grow up out of the water, these pond plants are great for help to keep the pond clean and healthy as they put oxygen into the water.

These are the basics for a good choice of pond plants to fit in with any size of pond. Some of these plants can grow fairly rapidly, such as the oxygen plants and water Lillie’s. So there is no need to plant loads of them as they will soon multiply. It is worth keeping control of these plants so they don’t take your pond over completely.

Pond plants like the lillies and floaters provide shade for the pond so they help to keep the water temperature down on a sunny day which in turn helps keep down the growth of algae.

Pond plants are an essential part of enjoying the whole pond experience, so enjoy picking them, enjoy planting and arranging them and most of all enjoying looking at them.