New Large Growing Water Lilies Water Lily cultivars come in all sizes. Some are so small, they produce leaves and flowers the size of a ten pence piece. However, this makes the perfect choice for those wanting to plant up small containers or anything else that holds water. On the other end of the […]
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The Allotment Water Garden Over the years, many customers have come to my retail nursery to purchase pond plants for water features in their allotments. These small container ponds can be created very simply by using half Oak barrels, old Belfast sinks, old style bath tubs etc… In fact, anything that is watertight and can […]
Read in fullPond planting explained for Beginners The only difference between adding plants to your pond or water garden compared to planting up borders in your back garden is WATER, and the thing that seems to confuse people the most is the different water depth requirements, however it does not need to be explained in a complicated way […]
Read in fullTen Must Have Pond Plants You can just imagine the fun I had trying to choose the top ten must have plants for your pond! The first thing I had to do was to just concentrate on pond plants (true aquatics) rather than the whole concept of water gardening, bog-gardens, moist pond surrounds borders […]
Read in fullThe Importance of Marginal Plants There are many different categories of water plants, and just as plants have adapted to all areas of land, they have also adapted to all areas of the water. In this article, I will talk about freshwater ponds, streams, dykes, lakes, dew ponds and even man-made canals. It’s in all […]
Read in fullFree Floating Pond Plants Out of all the different categories of Pond plants, there is a very small collection that has adapted over the years, to free float on the water. Fortunately, they are easy to grow and have very little requirements other than to bask in the sunlight and absorb the nutrients from the […]
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