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Plants for ponds
Green Craziness
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Hi everyone, this is my first post so bear with me, please.
As I moved recently to a house with a garden area just with weeds, I decided to create my first garden from scratch, dedicated to wildlife, and I want to build a pond.
Unfortunately, I cannot find aquatic plants anywhere, and I even asked at the local freegle and freecycle if anyone had them.
No such luck, and I cannot find a reliable place to buy them online.
Can anyone advise me where could I buy online some plants to ad a pond to my garden, please?
Thank you for reading 
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Puddleplants.co.uk
I;ve used them and was quite happy. Also a place called Waterside Nursery I haven't used and someone was saying one of the wildflower sites also does them.
Thank you Watery, I will take a look right now
Yep as Watery says puddleplants is a great site
Also if you want native water plants try http://www.wildflowershop.co.uk/index.html
I got mine from ebay, all guaranteed by the site, but I have never been let down.
Smaller plants that will establish nicely.
Local maidenhead aquatics.
Bigger plants at higher prices. But will flower this year.
Thank you all, you really helped me
Got a lovely white blooming caltha from Puddleplants last week (after reading about them on another thread on this site) Caltha are very good for insects. Also got a small red water lily for small ponds and some white and pink for-get- me not for the tadpoles to hide in - they are certainly gathering all round it's roots. All the plants were in good condition, well wrapped and able to go straight in the pond. I will use them again because their stuff is good quality.