Recommended Pond Plants.

Question
Please could you recommend some plant for my new pond.
Answer
The is a list of our recommended water plant .
Latin name: Nymphaea ‘Marliacea Chromatella’
Common name: Water lily .
Type of plant: Deep water aquatic .
Planting depth: Crown must be under 22cm to 30cm (9in-12in) of water.
Hardiness: Hardy.
Flower colour: Golden yellow.
Height and spread:Spreads to 1.2m (4ft).
Description:Attractively marbled leaves.
Tips:Needs at least six hours of sun a day to flower well. The leaves create shade in the water and help control temperature. They also hide fish from predators. The roots remove excess nutrients from water. This plant doesn’t like moving water so don’t grow it near a fountain or waterfall. Nymphaea;Marliacea Chromatella,Water lily.

Latin name: Cotula coronopifolia
Common name: Golden buttons
Type of plant: Annual marginal pond plant
Planting depth: Up to 15cm (6in) of water over top of planting basket
Hardiness: Killed by frost
Flower colour: Yellow
Height and spread:15cm (6in) high x 30cm (12in) spread
Description: South African plant with daisy-like button flowers for most of the summer.
Tips: Good for creating a colourful pond edge all summer, self-seeds for a natural effect. Cotula coronopifolia

Latin name: Aponoge distachyos
Common name: Water hawthorn
Type of plant: Deep water aquatic
Planting depth: 30cm (12in)
Hardiness: Fairly hardy
Flower colour: White
Height and spread:1.2m x 1.2m (4ft x 4ft)
Description: Elongated, floating leaves, with white boat-shaped flowers all summer and autumn.
Tips: Use as an alternative to water lilies in a small pond or moving water, such as by a waterfall or fountain. Aponogeton distachyos

Latin name: Lagarosiphon major
Common name: Pondweed
Type of plant: Submerged oxygenating plant
Planting depth: 25cm (10in) to 75cm (30in)
Hardiness: Hardy
Flower colour: No flowers
Height and spread: 2m to 3m (6ft to 9.8ft) widespreading strands outlined with short, curly leaves
Tips: Plant one bunch for about every square metre of surface area to ensure good water oxygenation. Thin out excess growth regularly in the summer to prevent it swamping the pond. Brilliant oxygenator, and being evergreen it also works in winter. The stems hide baby fish from predators. Lagarosiphon major, Pondweed

Latin name: Stratiotes aloides
Common name: Water soldier
Type of plant: Free-floating aquatic
Hardiness: Hardy
Flower colour: White but rarely flowers
Height and spread: 30cm x 30cm (1ft x 1ft)
Description: Spiky, pineapple-shaped plant bobbing about in the water. Makes a good contrast to saucer-shaped water lilies, the linear stems of irises and other marginal plants.
Tips: Be prepared to thin out excess growth to prevent it swamping the pond. Removes excess nutrients from pond water. Stratiotes aloides

Latin name: Caltha palustris
Common name: Kingcup or marsh marigold
Type of plant: Marginal and bog plant
Hardiness: Hardy
Flower colour: Yellow
Height and spread: 25cm x 45cm (10in x 18in)
Description: Chunky British native plant with giant buttercup-like flowers.
Tips: Cut foliage down in summer if it looks scruffy, to encourage a neat new batch to set off summer-flowering marginals.
Latin name: Iris laevigata
Common name: Water iris
Type of plant: Marginal
Hardiness: Hardy
Flower colour: Purple
Height and spread: 80cm x 30cm (32in x 1ft)
Description: Architectural plants with fan-like foliage and spectacular, large, typical iris-shaped flowers produced in early summer.
Tips: Use where the foliage contrasts with bushier waterside plants as the flowering season is short.

Latin name: Lobelia ‘Queen Victoria’
Common name: Lobelia
Type of plant: Short-lived marginal
Hardiness: Half hardy
Flower colour: Red
Height and spread: 90cm x 30cm (3ft x 1ft)
Description: Unlike bedding lobelias, it is a tall, upright perennial with purple-red leaves and red flowers.
Tips: A real eye-catcher deserving pride of place in your planting scheme, where its bold colours are set off by plenty of green foliage.
Latin name: Typha minima
Common name: Bulrush
Type of plant: Marginal
Hardiness: Hardy
Flower colour: Brown
Height and spread: 75cm x 45cm (30in x 18in)
Description: Miniature bulrush, with narrow reed-like foliage and short, stumpy brown heads in summer.
Tips: Leave plants standing as late as possible in autumn and winter for the shapes and bulrush seed-heads.

Latin name: Zantedeschia aethiopica ‘Crowborough’
Common name: Arum lily
Type of plant: Marginal
Hardiness: Half hardy
Flower colour: White
Height and spread: 90cm x 60cm (3ft x 2ft)
Description: Architectural plants with large, arrow-shaped foliage and big white arum flowers in mid-summer.
Tips: Stand pots in deeper water than is usual for marginal plants. The layer of water insulates the roots in winter, protecting them from cold.. For More information click here