I'd avoid creeping jenny at all costs. We moved here 11 years ago, and I'm still getting rid of it
Oh heck. I planted some last year along one side of my pond, thinking it'll be beneficial for wildlife. It's behaved so far, but I do like the idea of creeping thyme.
As explained earlier, the creeping jenny is well named but it can be kept in check if you take the time.
Did you click on the icon for adding pix @Whippet? The one that looks like a hill? If you keep them on the smaller side they load more easily. I resize all mine to around 1MB or less.
Yes I clicked on the icon Its all double dutch to me so will ask son to help next time he's here.
Im very grateful for all the replies with suggestions and advice. Thankyou.
Whippet said:The pond is in the centre of a lawn with narrow slabs as a border then soil then the pond.
Without photos we have to use our reading and our imaginations.
Moving the slabs to overlap the edges, is the traditional treatment. But maybe that's too heavy a job.
Regarding invasive ground cover, I thought earlier about wild mint. Its stolons will ramp into the pond, but can easily be pulled out. Doing a good job of absorbing excess nutirents and pulling a lot of algae with it.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Aquatic forget me not. Myosotis Scorpioides. It’s a perennial, it spreads and it flowers all season and is easy picked out where you don’t want it. Every pond should have some. It goes well with aquatic buttercup. Ranunculus linguagrandiflora.
Campanula poscharskyana, forms a nice clump, pretty flowers in the spring and is evergreen in my garden (big plus!) I also have a creeping phlox I picked up from tesco that looks lovely next to the pond and spread a decent amount in it’s first year.
The low growing, spreading hardy geraniums are good but die back in the winter, I have mavis simpson
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Im very grateful for all the replies with suggestions and advice. Thankyou.
Moving the slabs to overlap the edges, is the traditional treatment. But maybe that's too heavy a job.
Regarding invasive ground cover, I thought earlier about wild mint. Its stolons will ramp into the pond, but can easily be pulled out. Doing a good job of absorbing excess nutirents and pulling a lot of algae with it.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."