As you select plants, check to see what their expected size once grown will be and only choose those that will suit the size, shape, and location of your pond when fully grown. Aim to cover about ...

Oxygenate water and provide cover: Eelgrass and Hornwort. Place eelgrass, Vallisneria americana, at the bottom of your pond.In summer, eelgrass sends stalks to the surface with little white blossoms.

Every year in this pond from a single seed was grown a huge plant – Victoria amazonica. Its leaves grow massive and we were always told their substructure could hold the weight of a baby.

Your pond should also contain marginal or edge plants that inhabit shallow water or the edges of a water garden. They provide vertical contrast and cover for birds, aquatic insects, and other ...

Sara WilliamsSaskatchewanWhy not go for perennials with large leaves and let their foliage make a statement? Flowers may be ...

As for plants, less is more: a low-maintenance hardy evergreen, with architectural shiny leaves, the false castor oil plant Fatsia japonica (above), would grow well with limited light to about 4ft ...

A white, night-blooming water ... Sensitive plant floats near the pond’s bog area and a border of vivid foxtail ferns. ... rippled-edge leaves and flowers that grow on stems above the water’s ...

The plants will help to keep the water crystal clear, because their leaves shade out the light that causes green algae to grow. In fact, apart from an annual clean up, you'll find there's ...