Adding plants to your pond in Autumn with our rooted baskets

• Autumn is a good time to plant a pond.
• But our local Garden centre has the Xmas decorations out for sale instead of a range of plants for a pond!!
• They have stopped selling pond plants because wholesalers have stopped delivering to them.
• Not because it is a bad time to plant a pond.
• We grow our own plants in our own Nursery.
• Our pond plants are still available to buy.

Our plants can still be planted now - they are the same plants that will be available to our customers next Spring.

• We have spent the warm summer months potting so they are ready rooted in mesh baskets for now & for next Spring

Planting your pond now is easy with our ready-rooted plants.

• Some online retailers are not selling plants now as they send bareroot plants - that is plant pieces not rooted into a basket.
• There is no time for these to root firmly into their baskets before Autumn.
• Our plants are ready to be sent anytime.
• We send out rooted plants in mesh baskets and aquatic clay soil.
• We will send out orders until ice is on top of the troughs here in Leicestershire.
• Potted plants will spend the coming months in our outside troughs.
• Or we can send them out to you to grow on in your pond.

Think of them 'moving home' -

• Our plants are already rooted in mesh baskets of aquatic clay soil.
• You do not have to repot them.
• Just place them at the right depth of water (as per the ticket with each variety) when you receive them.

Advantages of planting pond plants into their permanent position in Autumn -

• Next Spring any plants already in your pond will respond to your water temperature.
• Your pond plants will start growing when the weather in your area encourages them.
• We are in Leicestershire so those gardening in the South will have plants growing earlier with their Spring temperatures.
• Those in the North will have to wait a little longer for the plants to respond if the weather is colder there.
• Waterlilies placed in your pond now will grow up to water surface level in one move next Spring. They will not have to adapt to your pond depth after growing to the water depth of the Nursery.
• Oxygenating plants planted now will drop down to the base of your pond out of sight. They will be working for you over Winter and will respond to the warmth levels in your pond in Spring.
• The plants will be there in time for the wildlife to return

 Planting Schemes:

We can help with planting a whole new pond this Autumn -

1. Measure your pond surface area
2. Compare to our table on this page
3. Order that scheme
4. Give us any special requirements in General Comments as you go through checkout eg shady pond, already have yellow Iris etc
5. We select your plants
6. You can get a Pond Planting Scheme with oxygenators, shelf upright plants, shelf rafting plants and waterlilies (no waterlily in Planting Scheme Size 1) for that pond size.
7. We balance the scheme we send to cover a wide range of seasons of interest and for the many different types of wildlife visitors.

Or choose a specific Pond Planting Collection to encourage wildlife -

1. Dragonflies
2. Newts
3. Pollinators

Check out Special Offer Planting Schemes -

Have you seen our Special Offer collections too - aimed at specific colour combinations or specific seasons of interest?

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