Aquatic Plants are some of the most important, beautiful, and most overlooked assets to any pond. Most people buy aquatic plants because they look nice, not realizing that they are essential for the health of their pond. Most people not knowing this only buy a few plants, and not the entire amount they actually need. Aquatic plants serve two major purposes in a pond. They use fish waste for food, thus starving off algae, keeping your pond clean and not green. They also help provide shade and natural shelter for your fish, keeping them stress free and healthy. There are some aquatics that do a better job at filtering water than others.Water hyacinth, water lettuce, and any of the submerged plants do a great job sucking extra nutrients out of a pond. Bog plants, water lilies, and lotus add beauty with their large leaves, and gorgeous flowers. These plants combined are great pond filters.

Bog plants are planted at the edges of a pond in shallow water on your pond's first shelf in 3" to 5" inches of water. Bog plants are a must have and include, water Iris, cattails, dwarf bamboo and many other low growing flowering plants like aquatic-forget-me-not, and marsh marigolds. These pond plants help ease the transition into the existing landscape very well.

Oxygenators are submerged pond plants that help provide fantastic water quality by using up excess fish waste as a food source. These plants are planted in the gravel right in your pond's bottom. As they grow they provide a great place for fish to hide and escape predators. These plants include the following anacharis, hornwort, red ludwigia.

Floating Plants help to keep your water garden clean and not green. They are the best plants you can buy for algae control in your pond. Plants like water hyacinth, and water lettuce, also provide shade and security for your fish keeping them cool through the hot summer months. These pond plants are a must have in any water garden.

Water Lilies are the jewels of your water garden. Water lilies come in many beautiful colors and sizes, their large leaves provide shade and security for your fish. Water lilies come in two types, hardy & tropical. Hardy lilies will come back every spring after winter, tropical lilies will not. No garden pond is complete without lilies.

Water Lotus are some of the most sought after and beautiful pond plants you can purchase. Water lotus have massive flowers some reaching over 7"inches wide, and leaves about 14'inches wide. Lotus are invasive so they need to be kept in pots. Every pond should atleast have one lotus.                                                                                          

You need 40% to 60% of your pond surface covered with aquatic plants, every season. Let us take the guess work out of the equation, with one of our complete plant kits. All of the plants we put together in our plant kits are compatible, and once planted, will give your pond that instant aged look most people strive for.