If you are planting a new pond you also need Oxygenating plants to grow under the water & Water lilies for leaf across the water surface. Or you can choose a Pond Planting scheme where we choose the plants for you.
Before you build a new pond take into account the depths of water preferred by different Marginal pond plants you like and create the right depth marginal shelving into your pond construction.
To find plants for ponds for an existing pond you can use our Plant Finder or the filters:
- Use our shelf symbols
,, indicating the depth of shelf each plant requires. - Some plants can handle a variety of marginal shelf depths.
Planting in a wet, muddy, waterlogged, boggy area:
Use pond plants of the category:
- These plants can stand with their roots in wet soil as well as on a shallow marginal shelf of water at the pond edge.
- Their crowns are capable of exposure to frost and ice in the mud.
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