Our Plants for Pond Marginal Shelf areas come to you ready rooted in a mesh basket with aquatic compost for easy planting onto a Marginal Planting Shelf:
- Before you build a pond you should take into account the depths of water preferred by different Marginal pond plants and ensure you create the right depth marginal shelving into your pond construction.
- See the Build a Pond section on the Tips and Advice pages for more information.
To find plants for ponds suitable for your existing pond you can use our Plant Finder or the filters:
- We have divided our marginal pond plants into shelf
,
,
according to the depth of shelf they require.
- Some plants can handle a variety of marginal shelf depths.
- All potential marginal shelf depths are shown on the More Information page for each plant with all its details or on the tickets sent with each plant.
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 shelf of water at the pond edge
- Their crowns are capable of exposure to frost and ice on the mud surface.