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Edible and Medicinal Pond Plants
Edible and Medicinal Pond Plants When we think of water gardens and ponds, we imagine a picture of nature, made up of reflections, fish, wildlife and plants. The plants we visualise are usually of...
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Pontederia Cordata and Cultivars
Pontederia Cordata and Cultivars Also known as Pickerel Weed, Pontederia are native to the north continent of America, where they can be found growing in wide range of areas. From Canada down to the...
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Potamogeton Pondweeds
Potamogeton Pondweeds There are a large group of aquatic plants known as Potamogetons but are more commonly known as Pondweeds. They have a wide global distribution and some 50 or more species can be...
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The Importance of Marginal Plants
The Importance of Marginal Plants There are many different categories of water plants, and just as plants have adapted to all areas of land, they have also adapted to all areas of the water. In this...
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Typha (bulrushes)
Typha (Bulrush) Typha are one of the most symbolic of all plants. Also known as Bulrushes, Reed Mace and Cattails, their bold, graceful, elongated seed heads are often used as logos and as an...
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Swimming Ponds On my book shelf, I have a book called Wild Swimming. Inside, is a guide to all the natural beauty spots and remote locations in the UK where you can swim, dive or bathe? Swimming...
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Ten Must Have Pond Plants
Ten Must Have Pond Plants You can just imagine the fun I had trying to choose the top ten must have plants for your pond! The first thing I had to do was to just concentrate on pond plants (true...
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Oxygenating Plants
Oxygenating Plants Out of all of the different types of water plants, it’s the oxygenators that are the most diverse in their uses and they play the biggest role in maintaining healthy, clean water....
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Ranunculus (water-Buttercups)
Ranunculus (Water-Buttercups) There are about 600 different wild species of Ranunculus (Latin name Ranunculaceae) and they can be found growing in a vast range of different locations, ranging from...
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Deep Water Marginal Pond Plants
Deep Water Marginal Pond Plants Here at Lilies Water Gardens, we have created our own name for a category of very special plants and some of these pond plants belong in several different...
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Over-Wintering Pond Plants
Over-Wintering Pond Plants Over-wintering pond plants is easier than you think, but it’s more about tidying up to please the eye than anything else, as after all, most of the time there is no manual...
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Design and Shelving for Lined, Fibreglass and Concrete Ponds
Design and Shelving for Lined, Fibreglass and Concrete Ponds When we think of ponds or water gardens, we build an image in our minds of Bull Rush Pokers, Water Lilies and fish etc, in fact, usually...
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Acorus Calamus-Sweet Flag
Acorus Calamus-Sweet Flag This forever popular marginal plant also known as ‘Scented Rush’ or ‘Sweet Flag’, is one of my favourite plants to propagate as the rhizomes give off an addictive aniseed...
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Pond and Water Plants in Colour
Pond and Water Plants in Colour There are hundreds of thousands of plants from all corners of the world that grow in still and running water. Unfortunately, the majority of these are too invasive or...
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Eleocharis Acicularis (hair grass)
Eleocharis Acicularis (Hair Grass) This is one of my favourite versatile water garden plants. Also known as Needle Spike Rush, Hair Grass is attractive and adaptable to a large range of different...
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Attracting British Amphibians to your Water Garden
Attracting British Amphibians to your Water Garden One of the main attractions when creating a water feature in our gardens is, the hope that we will attract that lovely and sometimes comical,...
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Aquatic Baskets and Pond Plants
Aquatic Baskets and Pond Plants Unfortunately, there is a lot of misleading information all over the internet about certain sized pre-planted aquatic baskets being sold as Pond Ready and the baskets...
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Persicaria Amphibia-Amphibious Bistort
Persicaria Amphibia – Amphibious Bistort Persicaria Amphibia also known as Polygonum Amphibian, is a terrestrial native plant that can be found growing wild all over the UK. It thrives as a deep...
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Moorhens
Moorhens For those of you that are lucky enough to be proud owners of larger areas of water, there is a water bird that you should welcome with open arms should you be lucky enough of course, if they...
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Sagittaria Species and Cultivars
Sagittaria Species and Cultivars Also known as Duck Potato, Swamp Potato and Arrowhead, Sagittaria are true shallow and deep water marginal plants that are common in the wild throughout the Northern...
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