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Waterfall planting
Here is the waterfall to my newly-built pond:
I am looking at planting it up, in particular to hide the filter box and generally to naturalise it. My idea at the moment is to have lysimacchia numelarea Aurea where marked red (three places) and a fern where marked yellow. What I'm not sure on is what to plant in the stones at the top of the filter - the water is fast moving - or what to plant on the dry parts of the waterfall, to the left of the box and near the stones to the right.
Could anyone give me some inspiration please?
I am looking at planting it up, in particular to hide the filter box and generally to naturalise it. My idea at the moment is to have lysimacchia numelarea Aurea where marked red (three places) and a fern where marked yellow. What I'm not sure on is what to plant in the stones at the top of the filter - the water is fast moving - or what to plant on the dry parts of the waterfall, to the left of the box and near the stones to the right.
Could anyone give me some inspiration please?
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https://blog.lilieswatergardens.co.uk/2019/04/28/my-top-10-rockery-plants-for-pond-surroundings/
It's also evergreen so works all year round.
It gives a splash of colour in mid-winter
Taken just now-
It's been in the header pool for 15 years or more.
It's not in a pot, just a plant that I dropped in many years ago and it seems very happy.
I snap bits off now and then when it gets too big.
I can get some close ups of the leaves if that would help to ID if you like it
Billericay - Essex
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The link was very helpful and has given me some great ideas for the drier areas at the top of the cascade. I was also in touch with a nurseryman about ferns and he felt that the full sun would be too much for ferns so suggested opting for primulas and the like.
@Pete.8, that looks like a sedge and what a job it has done of naturalising/hiding the biofalls. I am tempted to fill up the biofalls with more pebbles and then plant something into them but I feel that'd create a maintenance problem when it came to clearing out the filter balls etc.!
An ideal would be something like an Acer palmatum, which would just arch over the falls, but I don't believe that can grow with its feet in water.
I have a big bio-filter in a box just behind the header pool that the grass/sedge hides very effectively, but can see your point with the setup you have.
Hope you find a solution that work for you and your pond
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.