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Title: Good plants for near the pond
Post by: emma h on January 17, 2006, 18:53:10

I'd like to make the area around our pond a pretty non growing area. Are there any suggestions, or can anything go near it?
Emma

Title: Re: Good plants for near the pond
Post by: joji on January 17, 2006, 19:35:06

Hi Emma

Try this web site. ;D

www.java-plants.com

It is a uk site and they might be able to give you some better ideas. :)

Title: Re: Good plants for near the pond
Post by: jennym on January 18, 2006, 16:15:38

That's a good site joji :)

Have some suggestions based on what grows well around my pond if it helps:
All these take quite moist boggy conditions well -
Caltha palustris (kingcup)
Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag iris)
Juncus effusus f. spiralis (corkscrew rush)
Gunnera manicata (Giant rhubarb - inedible - if you have room)
and plants like Dicentra spectabilis (bleeding heart) and Arum italicum subsp. italicum 'Marmoratum' (lords and ladies) look good near a pond too, as do a lot of ferns.

Title: Re: Good plants for near the pond
Post by: Jesse on January 18, 2006, 19:02:16

I have irises around my pond and a few others which names I can't remember now. I bought from this place, good service and the plants, a year on, are doing well.

http://www.bromfieldaquatics.co.uk/ (http://www.bromfieldaquatics.co.uk/)

Title: Re: Good plants for near the pond
Post by: joji on January 18, 2006, 20:35:38

Quote from: jennym on January 18, 2006, 16:15:38
That's a good site joji

Thankyou Jenny ;D

Title: Re: Good plants for near the pond
Post by: grawrc on January 29, 2006, 00:51:37

It depends totally on the size of your pond and the amount of space round it. I would look at all the advice given but think carefully about the dimensions of your pond as well as the amount of space ( vertical and horizontal) that you have available.

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