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What is this pond plant please?
Victoria Sponge
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This centre plant looks oddly familiar to me but I can't place it...
I don't recall planting it in the pond- it is spreading on long runners or stalks.
Many thanks!
Wearside, England.
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Did you stick some watercress in the pond Victoria? It looks like that
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I didn't although I remember reading about it on here - is it supposed to keep the water clear?
I suppose it could have come in with something else - I noticed a bit of duckweed when I enlarged the pic and I didn't put that in either
It does keep the water clear. It also looks a bit like Brooklime which has little blue flowers. I think it's a relation of Veronica. Often these things come in from other pond plants if you've bought any, or bits dropped by birds.Duckweed certainly does that.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks Fairygirl- I'll see what it gets up to next year
I thought watercress too, or Brooklime, or possibly Creeping Jenny?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Creeping Jenny- I think that's what it reminded me of but I couldn't think of the name. I always thought of it as a ground plant not water.
I'll have to wait for a flower I think. It seems to be making itself quite comfortable for something that has only appeared this year so I'll have to keep an eye on it
Im sure it is Veronica beccabunga (Brooklime) as suggested above. Small blue flowers in summer on long rafting stems that help give cover to the pond and use spare nutrients as it roots into the water directly from these rafting stems.
Thanks for that Linda. Nice to have an expert looking in and helping out!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks Linda