Hi LG, I recently revamped my pond and replanted it.
Devon Pond Plant's website is quite honest about the plants and how they do and is worth a look just for info alone.
I was tempted by marsh woundwort, but decided against it as I read it is not ideal for small ponds and my last pond had a fair bit of the hedge woundwort growing in it quite happily, never mind the marsh kind🤔
I kept marsh cinquefoil, it has a curious little flower, I've had it for several years and the plant hasn't been exactly spectacular but perhaps there was too much competition.
I am trying again with Butomus umbellatus, one year it was beautiful, but I couldn't find them when I emptied the pond. Apparently they don't like being overcrowded either, which they almost certainly were in the last pond.😳
[Keeping the Orontium and Myosotis on hold for if I feel I need more later. The Devon Pond Plants site put me right off the Carex and Phalaria, sorry!]
Considering that I've already got a Nymphaea, Iris and Zantedeschia, I do wonder if that's too much altogether? I have created two small boggy beds, one at each end of the pond (it's almost rectangular, so they're about 120 x 40cm) so some of the marginals might go in those rather than in the water itself.
Thanks for your help, everyone who has responded - really useful.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Sounds like you’ve got a great list of plants, it’s great you’re choosing the flowering rush, hopefully it flowers great. Hope you’re going to post a picture of the pond in a few months time.
Just a note on the Carex grass, most are thugs but the Bowles Golden one isn’t from what I’ve read, even on the Devon plants website mentioned which I also used it’s says it just forms a clump, which is what I’ve found in my pond. I’ve had no issues with it what so ever!
Hi Chris, yes, you're right - I think I just read the first few and thought "Eek!" It's going back on the 'maybe later' list .
Not everything is available yet but I'm going to place an order tomorrow for the ones that are, as the weather is supposed to be better here at the end of the week... well here's hoping, anyway!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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Devon Pond Plant's website is quite honest about the plants and how they do and is worth a look just for info alone.
I was tempted by marsh woundwort, but decided against it as I read it is not ideal for small ponds and my last pond had a fair bit of the hedge woundwort growing in it quite happily, never mind the marsh kind🤔
I kept marsh cinquefoil, it has a curious little flower, I've had it for several years and the plant hasn't been exactly spectacular but perhaps there was too much competition.
I am trying again with Butomus umbellatus, one year it was beautiful, but I couldn't find them when I emptied the pond. Apparently they don't like being overcrowded either, which they almost certainly were in the last pond.😳
- Hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum)
- Starwort (Callitriche)
- Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae)
- Water hawthorn (Aponogeton)
- Blue pickerel (Pontederia cordata)
- Arrowhead (Sagittaria)
- Flowering rush (Botomus umbellatus)
- Marsh cinquefoil (Potentilla palustris)
- Barred horsetail (Equisetum)
- [Keeping the Orontium and Myosotis on hold for if I feel I need more later. The Devon Pond Plants site put me right off the Carex and Phalaria, sorry!]
Considering that I've already got a Nymphaea, Iris and Zantedeschia, I do wonder if that's too much altogether? I have created two small boggy beds, one at each end of the pond (it's almost rectangular, so they're about 120 x 40cm) so some of the marginals might go in those rather than in the water itself.Thanks for your help, everyone who has responded - really useful.
Just a note on the Carex grass, most are thugs but the Bowles Golden one isn’t from what I’ve read, even on the Devon plants website mentioned which I also used it’s says it just forms a clump, which is what I’ve found in my pond. I’ve had no issues with it what so ever!
It's going back on the 'maybe later' list
Not everything is available yet but I'm going to place an order tomorrow for the ones that are, as the weather is supposed to be better here at the end of the week... well here's hoping, anyway!