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Discover our carefully selected range of UK-grown pond plants, chosen for their quality, reliability, and unique character. Whether you’re creating a new wildlife pond or improving an established one, you’ll find everything from essential oxygenating plants to beautiful water lilies, practical marginal plants, and specialist bog plants. We focus on strong, healthy plants that establish well in British conditions, helping you create a balanced, natural pond that looks good throughout the seasons.
Alongside trusted favourites, we also offer a selection of rare and unusual aquatic plants you won’t often find elsewhere. These varieties bring interest, structure, and biodiversity to your pond while supporting pollinators, amphibians, and other wildlife.
Lythrum salicaria 'Rosey Gem' is a compact purple loosestrife for pond edges and wet borders. It brings a long run of pink flowers in summer and it...
View full detailsPrimula japonica 'Apple Blossom' is a candelabra primrose for damp soil and light shade. It flowers in tidy tiers and fills that gap between spring...
View full detailsLobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' is grown for two things: dark beetroot-coloured leaves and bright scarlet flowers. It’s often called cardinal f...
View full detailsOur 40cm Square Pond Plant Baskets are designed to provide a strong, reliable and long-lasting solution for planting and growing pond plants, margi...
View full detailsNymphaea 'Rosanna' is a hardy water lily grown for soft pink flowers and a balanced, medium spread. It grows from a rhizome planted in a basket, wh...
View full detailsNymphaea 'Inner Light' is a hardy water lily that suits deeper water and larger ponds. It grows from a rhizome in a basket and sends long stems to ...
View full detailsAthyrium niponicum 'Ursula's Red' is a painted lady fern picked for coloured fronds. New growth comes up purple-bronze, then shifts towards silvery...
View full detailsAcorus calamus 'Argenteostriatus' is a variegated sweet flag with narrow leaves striped cream and green. It’s grown for foliage, not flowers, and i...
View full detailsMimulus (tigrinus group) is usually sold as tiger monkey flower. It’s grown for bright, spotted blooms and it likes cool, damp conditions. In a bog...
View full detailsMyosotis scorpioides 'Semperflorens' is water forget-me-not, selected for a long flowering season. It’s a simple plant, but it earns its place by t...
View full detailsPhragmites australis 'Variegatus' is a variegated common reed with cream-striped leaves. It gives you height and screening fast, and it stays usefu...
View full detailsOenanthe fistulosa ‘Flamingo’, commonly known as Variegated Water Dropwort, is a moisture-loving perennial grown for its colourful foliage and soft...
View full detailsNymphaea 'Yellow Bangpra' is a hardy water lily selected for reliable flowering and steady growth in outdoor ponds. It develops from a central rhiz...
View full detailsIris laevigata 'Mottled Blue' is a Japanese water iris for wet soil and pond margins. It’s a good choice if you want a true marginal iris that cope...
View full detailsLobelia cardinalis is cardinal flower, known for tall spikes of scarlet blooms in late summer. It likes wet ground and brings colour when many bog ...
View full detailsNymphaea 'Ray Davis' is a hardy water lily selected for reliable flowering and steady growth in outdoor ponds. It develops from a central rhizome a...
View full detailsIris ensata 'Eileen's Dream' is a Japanese iris grown for large early summer flowers and elegant foliage. You may see Japanese iris offered under t...
View full detailsMimulus cardinalis is scarlet monkey flower, a moisture-loving plant with bright tubular blooms. It’s a good pick for bog edges where soil stays da...
View full detailsArum italicum is Italian arum, grown for patterned leaves and bright berries. It’s often called lords-and-ladies in older garden talk, though that ...
View full detailsNymphaea 'Rene Gerard' is a hardy pond water lily grown for its leaf cover and repeat flowering across the summer months. It settles best when left...
View full detailsLobelia siphilitica 'Alba' is the white form of great blue lobelia. It likes damp ground and produces upright spires of white flowers in late summe...
View full detailsNymphaea 'Flammea' is a hardy water lily that grows from a rhizome and produces floating pads and summer flowers in still water. In a basket it kee...
View full detailsNymphaea 'Mrs Richmond' is a hardy pond water lily grown for its leaf cover and repeat flowering across the summer months. It settles best when lef...
View full detailsNymphaea pubescens 'Mae Ploi' is a tropical night-blooming water lily for still ponds and containers, grown under the name Maeploi. People grow it ...
View full detailsThe best wildlife pond plants provide a mixture of underwater cover, surface shade, flowering habitat and places for aquatic insects to emerge. A balanced pond can include oxygenating plants, marginal plants and floating-leaved plants such as water lilies. Native species are particularly useful for supporting UK pond wildlife.
The number depends on the size of the pond and the types of plants being used. Rather than filling the whole pond, aim for a mixture of planted areas and open water. As plants establish and spread, they can be divided or thinned to prevent the pond becoming overcrowded.
Spring to early summer is generally the best time to add pond plants in the UK, as rising water temperatures encourage them to establish and grow. Container-grown pond plants can often be added later in the growing season too, provided their individual planting requirements are followed.
Pond plants can contribute to a healthier, more balanced pond. Oxygenating plants grow beneath the surface, while floating leaves provide shade and other plants use nutrients from the water. Together, a good mixture of plants can help create conditions that are less favourable to excessive algae.
A well-planted pond usually contains several types of aquatic plant. These can include submerged oxygenators, marginal plants for shallow water, floating or floating-leaved plants, and deep-water aquatics. Using several types creates different habitats and gives the pond a more natural appearance.
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