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Five Tips for growing Aquatic Plants

Posted on June 12, 2013 by LiliesWaterGarden

Five Tips for Growing Aquatic Plants I have been growing and selling water plants commercially for over 26 years and as a professional in my trade and with the skills I have acquired over the years, I would like to … Continue reading →

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Potamogeton Pondweeds

Posted on May 29, 2013 by LiliesWaterGarden

Potamogeton Pondweeds There are a large group of aquatic plants known as Potamogetons but are more commonly known as Pondweeds. They have a wide global distribution and some 50 or more species can be found growing in the British Isles. … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature And Wildlife, Plant Health, Plant Profiles, Uses For Water Plants | Tagged aquatic plants, curled pondweed, curly pondweed, Damselflies, deep marginal plants, Dragonflies, Encouraging Pond Life, floating plants, Healthy Pond Plants, healthy ponds, lakes, native plants, newts, oxygenating plants, poamogeton crispus, pond balance, pond health, pond life, pond plants, ponds, pondweed, pondweeds, potamogeton malainus, potamogeton natans, potamogetons, rivers, streams, submerged aquatic plants, submerged plants, Water Gardening, water gardens, water plants, wildlife ponds | Leave a comment

Pontederia Cordata and Cultivars

Posted on May 12, 2013 by LiliesWaterGarden

Pontederia Cordata and Cultivars Also known as Pickerel Weed, Pontederia are native to the north continent of America, where they can be found growing in wide range of areas. From Canada down to the swamps of Louisiana, vast colonies can … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature And Wildlife, Plant Health, Plant Profiles, Pond Design And Planting, Uses For Water Plants | Tagged aquatic plants, damsel flies, deep marginal plants, dragon flies, Encouraging Pond Life, filtration beds, healthy ponds, Marginal Plants, pickerel weed, Planting Marginal Plants, pond health, pond life, pond plants, ponds, pontaderia cordata alba, pontaderia lanceolata, pontaderia pink, pontaderia variegata, pontederia, pontederia cordata, pontederia dilatata, submerged aquatic plants, submerged plants, Water Gardening, water gardens, water plants | Leave a comment

Buying Pond Plants

Posted on April 28, 2013 by LiliesWaterGarden

Buying Pond Plants In my trade, water gardening means growing plants in and around water or in damp or permanently wet areas, also incorporating the planting of lakes, ponds and their surrounding areas down to the smallest patio containers. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Pond Design And Planting | Tagged Aquatic Baskets, aquatic plants, azzola, black fly, bog gardens, buying pond plants, ditches, Duckweed, floating plants, free floating plants, Healthy Pond Plants, healthy ponds, Marginal Plants, marshes, moist borders, nymphaea chromatella, perennials, plant health, pond health, pond plants, ponds, pontederia cordata, spider mite, streams, Water Gardening, water gardens, Water Lilies, water plants, white fly | Leave a comment

Iris Pseudacorus

Posted on April 1, 2013 by LiliesWaterGarden

Iris Pseudacorus Probably the most widespread marginal plant in the world, the vigorous Iris Pseudacorus, or more commonly known as Flag Iris, is also native to Europe, Western Asia and North-East Africa. Over the years it has become an invasive … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature And Wildlife, Plant Profiles, Pond Design And Planting, Uses For Water Plants | Tagged aquatic edible plants, aquatic plants, butomus umbellatus, Damselflies, Dragonflies, edible plants, flag iris, flagon, flowering rush, iris pseudacorus, iris pseudacorus roy davidson, iris pseudacorus variegata, jacobs sword, lakes, Marginal Plants, Medicinal Plants, native flag iris, native plants, pond plants, ponds, reed mace, streams, typha, typha species, water flag, Water Gardening, water gardens, water plants, water skegs, yellow flag | Leave a comment

Native Aquatic Plants of Britain

Posted on March 17, 2013 by LiliesWaterGarden

Native Aquatic Plants of Britain One of the things we have plenty of and contribute to our rich green isles, is rainfall. Plenty of rainfall means plenty of wet habitats for our wildlife forming lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, bogs, marshes … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature And Wildlife, Plant Health, Pond Design And Planting, Uses For Water Plants | Tagged amphibians mammals, anagalis tenella, aquatic, aquatic life, aquatic mint, aquatic plants, aquatic plants of britain, aquatic plants of britain and ireland, aquatic pond weeds, aquatic terrestial plants, aquatic weeds, aquatic wildlife, bog arum, bog gardens, bog lands, bog pimpernal, bogs, brandy bottle, british aquatic plants, british butterflies, british wildlife, brooklime, bullrush, bumble bees, butomus umbelatus, calla palustris, callitriche hamulata, callitriche stagnalis, callitriche verna, caltha palustris, canals, cardamine pratensis, carex pendula, carnivourous plants, Common Frogs, coots, cuckoo flower, curled pond weed, deep water plants, devils bit scabious, ditches, edible aquatic plants, Encouraging Pond Life, eupatorium canibinum, filipendula ulmaria, filtration beds phyto-filtration, filtration plants, flood plains, flooded woodlands, flowering rush, Frog Spawn, geum rivale, grass snakes, grasses and sedges, Healthy Pond Plants, healthy ponds, hemp agrimony, honey bees, hydrocotyl vulgaris, iris pseudacorus, king cups, lakes, lesser celendine, lychnis flos cuculi, Marginal Plants, marginal rush, marsh cinquefoil, marsh fitillary butterfly, marsh marigolds, marsh valerian, marsh woundwort, marshes, marshy grassland, meadow sweet, mentha aquatica, moorhens, mossy streams, myasotis palustris, native aquatic plants, native plants, norfolk broads, norfolk rush, nuphar luteum, ornamental ponds, oxygenating plants, pennywort, phragmites australis, plants of britain, pond balance, pond health, pond life, pond plants, pond weeds, ponds, potentilla palustris, potomogeton crispus, ragged robin, ranunculus aquatilis, ranunculus ficaria, reed beds, reedmace, reptiles, rivers, semi aquatic plants, sphagnum moss, stachys palustris, starwort, streams, submerged aquatic plants, submerged aquatic pond weeds, submerged plants, succisa pratensis, terrestial plants, true bog plants, typha angustifolia, typha latifolia, uses for aquatic plants, uses for pond plants, uses for water plants, valerian officinalis, veronica becabunga, water avens, water crowfoot, water forget me not, Water Gardening, water gardens, water mint, water plants, waterfowl, weeping sedge, wild bees, wildlife ponds, wildlife water gardens, woodland swamps, yellow flag iris | 1 Comment

Edible and Medicinal Pond Plants

Posted on March 8, 2013 by LiliesWaterGarden

Edible and Medicinal Pond Plants When we think of water gardens and ponds, we imagine a picture of nature, made up of reflections, fish, wildlife and plants. The plants we visualise are usually of Rushes and Water lilies and pond … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature And Wildlife, Plant Health, Plant Profiles, Uses For Water Plants | Tagged achillea ptarmica, acourus calamus, acourus calamus variegata, apponogeton distachyos, aquatic edible plants, aquatic mint, aquatic plants, bog garden plants, brandy bottle, brooklime, brookweed, bullrush, butomus umbellatus, cardamine, cardamine pratensis plena, cardamine pretensis, colocasia, colocasia esculenta, cuckoo flower, cyperus longus, deep marginal plants, duck potato, Duckweed, eating aquatic plants, eating wild plants, edible aquatic plants, edible plants, edible pond plants, Edible Water Plants, floating plants, flowering rush, food for free, free floating plants, free floating pond plants, giant rhubarb, glyceria, glyceria maxima variegata, green arrow arum, gunnera tinctoria, houttuynia cordata, hydrocotyl, hydrocotyl vulgaris, lemna, lesser celendine, lotus, Marginal Plants, marginal rush, matteucia struthiopteris, Medicinal Plants, mentha aquatica, nasturtian officinal, nelumbo, norfolk rush, nuphar luteum, nymphaea, orange peel plant, osmunda reagalis, ostrich fern, peltandra virginica, pennywort, phragmites auatralis, phragmites australis, pond health, pontederia, pontederia cordata, pontederia cordata alba, pontederia dilatata, pontederia lanceolata, potentilla arsernia, ranunculus ficaria, reed mace, sacred lotus, sacredlotus, sagittara tubers, sagittaria, sagittaria flore plena, sagittaria japonica, sagittaria sagittifolia, sagittifolia graminea, samolus valerandii, scirpus lacustris, shallow marginal plant, shuttlecock fern, silverweed, sparganium erectum.burr reed, sweet galigale, trappa natans, tubers, typa latifolium variegata, typha, typha angustifolia, typha gracilis, typha latifolia, typha minima, typha shuttleworthii, veronica becabunga, water chestnuts, water cress, water gardens, water hawthorne, Water Lilies, water lily, water mint, water nuts, water plants, wet habitats, wild foods | Leave a comment

True Aquatic Plants

Posted on February 23, 2013 by LiliesWaterGarden

True Aquatic Plants There seems to be a lot of miss-guided information throughout the aquatic industry of what true aquatic plants are? It never ceases to amaze me to see marginal and bog-garden plants categorized together as a sales ploy … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature And Wildlife, Plant Health, Plant Profiles, Pond Design And Planting | Tagged aerating aquatic plants, aerating plants, apponogeton, aquatic, aquatic and drought, aquatic duckweed, aquatic fauna and flora, aquatic habitats, aquatic habits, aquatic life, aquatic marginal plants, aquatic plants, aquatic pond life, aquatic ponds, aquatic water gardening, aquatic water life, aquatic water lilies, bog gardens, deep marginal plants, drought, Duckweed, floating leaves, floating plants, gardening, giant amazon water lily, lakes, lilies, marginal aquatics, natural habitat, nuphars, oxygenating plants, pond aquatics, pond life, ponds, shallow marginal plants, streams, submerged, submerged aquatic plants, submerged plants, submersible aquatics, water aquatics, Water Gardening, water gardens, water in the gardening, water levels, water life, Water Lilies, water plants | 1 Comment

Pond Snails

Posted on November 25, 2012 by LiliesWaterGarden

Pond Snails There are around 30 different species of fresh water snails in the UK, many of which, are very small and currently unavailable to buy. However, the two most familiar varieties are Lymnaea Stagnalis (giant pond snails) … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature And Wildlife, Plant Health | Tagged algae, algae control, algae problems, algae treatment, aquatic, aquatic plants, aquatic snails, blanketweed, blanketweed control, blanketweed treatment, coots, ducks, Encouraging Pond Life, giant pond snails, green water, Healthy Pond Plants, healthy ponds, herons, lymnaea stagnalis, moorhens, planorbarius corneus, pond, pond algae control, pond health, pond life, pond plants, pond snails, ramshorn snails, snail spawn, stagnalis snails, water, water birds, water gardens, waterfowl | Leave a comment

Autumn Care of Pond Plants

Posted on October 30, 2012 by LiliesWaterGarden

Autumn Care of Pond Plants October and November are the best months to tidy up your pond or water-garden and, to put your plants to sleep for the winter. If the last few UK winters are anything to go by, … Continue reading →

Posted in Plant Health, Water Testing | Tagged aquatic life, aquatic plants, autumn, autumn care for aquatic plants, autumn care for pond plants, autumn care for ponds, autumn care for water gardens, looking after your pond in autumn, Marginal Plants, plant life, pond care, pond plants, stagnant ponds, stagnant water, testing water clarity, toxins in ponds, toxins in water, uk winters, water garden care, water garden pond care, water gardens, Water Lilies, water plants, water testing, water toxins, winter care for pond plants | Leave a comment

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