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10 POND PLANTS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT!

2/8/2016

 
Adding plants to your water garden has many benefits such as naturalizing the landscape, creating smooth transitions for edges and improving the water quality and ecosystem as a whole. Some aquatic plant species are considered undesirable, or even illegal.

Canna (Canna flaccida)

​Canna is a tall-growing plant with variegated or green leaves and brightly colored flower spikes.  It's fast-growing and can really take over if you don't keep it under control.  You'll also need to watch that it doesn't freeze and die over the winter months.  This can create a water quality issue.
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Aquatic Crinum, Swamp or Bog Lily (Crinum americanum)

​The Aquatic Crinum lily is dainty and elegant all at once with its long petaled, white flowers and green strap-like leaves. Aquatic Crinum grows anywhere from 18” to 36” tall in full to partial sun.  It almost looks like it should glow in the dark; unfortunately, it doesn't quite glow.
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Ludwigia arcuata (Primrose Creeper)

The creeping water-primrose is named for its yellow, primrose-like flowers and its creeping stems, which grow over mud or shallow water.  An adaptable species, the creeping water-primrose can grow under a variety of conditions in a range of still and slow-flowing freshwater habitats.  Broken off fragments of the creeping water-primrose’s stems can easily re-grow into new plants.  The creeping water-primrose spreads rapidly and is considered to be invasive in many areas outside of its natural range.
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Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes)

​Water lettuce produces fuzzy, lime-green rosettes of leaves that results in what looks like little floating heads of lettuce. It does best in partial to full shade in our Arizona environment.
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Cattail (Typha spp.)

The common Cattail is often seen growing in ditches and along the edge of wetlands. They are valued for their water filtration abilities and do best in full sun to partially shaded areas. Blooms appear in late spring and turn brown in summer.  Cattail grow anywhere from 4’ to 5’ tall.  Unless you have a BIG pond, stick with the dwarf variety.
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Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)​

​Also called Moneywort, this plant grows in mats around 3” tall, with round green leaves and vibrant yellow cup-shaped flowers. Creeping Jenny requires full sun to partial shade for best growth. 
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Parrot Feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum

​This is a fast growing plant lush with lacy lime-green foliage. Parrots Feather makes for a good oxygenator and fish spawning shelter and thrives in sun or shade.
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Taro (Colocasia esulenta

Taro is known for its heart-shaped leaves that can reach 3” to 10” across and up to 3’ in length.  This requires some care and shade here in Arizona, especially the Black Taro.  If you have a shady-place pond, it's truly an amazing accent plant!
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MARSILEA ROTUNDIFOLIA (AQUATIC FOUR-LEAF CLOVER)

This is a favorite of everyone who grows it! Real 1-3" four-leaf clover leaves float on the surface of the pond as the trailing vine spreads under the water. Very easy growers, these plants are great for surface coverage and algae elimination. They also provide a protection from predators for koi and other fish especially important for vulnerable young fish. Do not add to earth bottom ponds or gravel bottom ponds as they may become invasive, this is in the fern family and are very difficult to eliminate once it's taken over!
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Pickerel Weed (Pontederia cordata)
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​Pickerel Weed (also known as Pickerel Rush) has violet blue spike-like flowers that exhibit from spring through early fall. This plant thrives in dense colonies along pond edge and in bogs and grows anywhere from 2’ to 3’ tall.
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For information about which plants (aquatic and terrestrial) are considered aggressive, invasive, or are just plain illegal, read more here.

RESOURCES and OTHER articles you may ENJOY:

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Duane Pascoff
1/14/2020 12:13:48 pm

Love our ponds. Where can we get cat tails,believe that would be a great addition to the landscape.

Laura Hatch
1/25/2022 10:25:28 pm

Do you sell palm plants? If so can you send me information. I am in Queen Creek Arizona and we just put in a 50 x 30‘ pond on our property. Now we are ready to fill up the bog with plants.


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