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Natural ponds have a profusion of flags, rushes, reeds and small flowering plants which delight the eye. Your pool will be more attractive and much more naturalistic when planted with clumps of these ornamental plants. There are hardy and tropical plants, each having their own desirable traits.

Hardy Shallow Water and Bog Plants typically are considered perennials and will show their beauty year after year. Make sure to select a mixture of these wonderful plants with the tropical bog plants.

Giant Arrowhead

Giant Arrowhead

Giant Arrowhead has distinctive leaves shaped as the name indicates and stands one to three feet above the water. Flowers are produced freely in a series of spikes.
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Double Arrowhead

Double Arrowhead

Double Arrowhead is a plant like the 'Giant Arrowhead' in foliage but one that develops a spike of beautiful double, petaled pure-white flowers. Grows well as a bog plant.
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Hardy Calla

Hardy Calla

Hardy Calla (Calla palustris). An attractive little native plant that bears many small, shiny, heart-shaped leaves one year, and two leaves and a small white arum-like flower the next. This is followed in autumn by a globular cluster of red berries. The plant is of interest as one of the few known to be fertilized by snails.
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Cardinal Flower - True Aquatic

Cardinal Flower - True Aquatic

Cardinal Flower. The true native aquatic Lobelia cardinalis or "Cardinal Flower" so often mistaken by the multitude of generic "Cardinal Flowers" that can be purchased in commercial nurseries. One of the best shallow true native water plants for the water garden. This is the "true" Cardinal Flower that is found in meadows and along stream banks in nature. It has one of the deepest red colorations in the flower of the hardies. Should be planted close to the water so reflections of its glorious fiery red color, so rare in hardy plants, will be mirrored in the depths below. In a rich moist soil it attains a height of 2 to 4 feet.
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Yellow Water Iris - True Aquatic

Yellow Water Iris - True Aquatic

Yellow Iris is the original of the famous French royal emble, the Fleur-de-lis. It grows to a height of 2 to 3 feet, the flowers being a bright yellow and the leaves broad and sword-like. It is the TRUE water gardening variety that loves the water garden pool!
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Rainbow Water Celery

Rainbow Water Celery

Rainbow Water Celery is a most unusual aquatic plant. A wonderful and colorful plant that produces serrated leaves of cream, green and pink. In the summer the plant produces white carrot flower umbels. It will grow to about six inches tall but at times can reach to about 12 inches. The plant, which grows rapidly, can spread across the water via rhizomes, making a most attractive display in any water garden pool. It has been known to be a food source for humans and fish. In some countries it is known to have medicinal or health tonic properties. Its curative value is mentioned in ancient or Chinese herbal writings.
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Blue Iris - True Aquatic

Blue Iris - True Aquatic

Blue Iris. This native American blue iris (Iris versicolor) is often considered the counterpart to the yellow iris. It grows about 2 feet high and has attractive blue flowers. This is the "TRUE" water garden species of blue iris that loves the abundant amount of water in your water garden pool!
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Lizard's Tail

Lizard's Tail

Lizard's Tail (Saururus cernuus) A native plant with small fragrant flowers that are produced at the end of the plant resemble a lizards tail, thus alluding to its name. This is a very handsome aquatic plant that has somewhat of a heart shaped leaf. Also, not only will you admire the unusual flowers but so do the honey bees.
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Sweet Galingale

Sweet Galingale

Sweet Galingale is a tall and vigorous growing hardy evergreen plant that produces green grass-like foliage and attractive spikelets that turn reddish brown in the fall. Grows to about 4-5 feet tall. Happy in soil that is moist or up to 5 inches of water over the crown.
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Flowering Rush

Flowering Rush

Flowering Rush. This beautiful aquatic produces spreading umbels of dainty rose-pink flowers on stout erect flower stems. A very hardy plant that makes a great addition to any water garden pool. It is extremely hardy and is an excellent grower.
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Water Cress

Water Cress

Water Cress has dark green leaves and small white flowers can form a pleasing contrast to the more feathery submerged oxygenating plants. Thrives especially well at edge of running water. Used in salads or as a garnish. Sold in bunches of rooted stems. Give your water garden a treat as well as yourself!
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Water Forget-Me-Not

Water Forget-Me-Not

Water Forget-Me-Not or Myosotis scorpiodes. Everyone is familiar with the popular bedding forget-me-not so frequently seen in parks and terrestrial gardens, but often are not aware of its cousin the true water garden species of Water Forget-Me-Not. During early summer this charming plant is absolutely smothered in sky blue flowers that resemble almost exactly those of its terrestrial counterpart. Great bloomer! Makes longer stems filled with beautiful flowers!
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Horsetail

Horsetail

Horsetail. Give your water garden an exotic bamboo look that lasts year after year. Easier to grow than the tropical bamboo but just as unique. Also known as "scouring rush", because sections of this plant were bound into small bundles that were used by pioneer families for scouring floors, table tops, etc., hence the name.
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Dwarf Sweet Flag

Dwarf Sweet Flag

Dwarf Sweet Flag (Acorus gramineaus variegatus). A "dwarfer" and much more slender-growing species than the common Sweet Flag, forming compact grassy tufts, 8 to 12 inches high. It should be grown in very shallow water or at the pond edge.
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Wild Rice

Wild Rice

Wild Rice. A very desirable aquatic grass, being one of the most attractive plants for pond size decoration. It can grow 8 to 9 feet high, with broad, flat leaves and reedy stems. The grain produced is excellent for fish and water fowl. Native to the United States.
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Marsh Marigold

Marsh Marigold

A beautiful native hardy plant which is almost the earliest to flower in the water garden, producing rich golden flowers in wild profusion. Grows 9 to 15 inches high, leaves almost round, yellow flowers resemble giant buttercups. Stands out as a plant of beauty flowering in the early Spring. A true harbinger of Spring. If you have not viewed the video CLICK HERE
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Common Sweet Flag

Common Sweet Flag

Grows 2 to 3 feet leaf blades, similar to an iris. This plant was once used for flavoring candles. When any part of the plant is cut or bruised, a spicy sweet citrus scent is released. An outstanding foliage plant perfect for any size water garden. Has a very unusual flower. Native in the United States.
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Variegated Sweet Flag

Variegated Sweet Flag

The cousin to the sweet flag but variegated. Grows 2 to 3 feet high and has similar blades to the iris. When any part of the plant is crushed, cut or bruised it will emit a spicy sweet citrus scent. An outstanding plant perfect for any size water garden. Has a very unusual flower.
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Spike Rush

Spike Rush

A grass-like aquatic plant that grows in wonderful green clumps with attractive brown flower tops. Easy to grow and adds a dash of color to your water garden pool. Grows to about one foot tall.
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Variegated Glyceria

Variegated Glyceria

An easy to grow water side plant with striking vegetation. Has a light-moderate green leaves with white stripes. Reaches a height of about 2 feet.
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Dwarf Bamboo

Dwarf Bamboo

Bamboo's typically like well drained soil, however this hardy bamboo-like bog plant will add a wonderful bamboo look to your water garden. Deep green foliage with attractive tops. They grow to about 2 feet. Give your water garden a special bamboo-like appearance. Native to the United States. Shown in the photograph is the pygmy water lily "Dauben". Include the special Dauben water lily, click HERE.
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American Water Plantain

American Water Plantain

The broad leaves are coarsely veined. Pinkish or white flowers are at the ends of stiff stems rising above the leaves. The broad towering spires become hard and woody after flowering and persist throughout the winter, catching the snow on their outspread arms, in a most attractive manner.
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Graceful Cat-Tail

Graceful Cat-Tail

These cattails possess an air of grace and dignity not encountered in any other genus of hardy aquatics. A slender plant, 2 to 4 feet, that finishes a very fine background in a massed planting.
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Common Cat-Tail

Common Cat-Tail

One of the favorite native swamp plants tall foliage and with large brown "cattails". Makes a true attractive site in the pool especially during a gentle summer breeze. Known to be excellent as water clearifiers.
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Dwarf Catkin Cat-Tail

Dwarf Catkin Cat-Tail

A Tricker Favorite! Grows 3 to 4 feet tall with light brown, almost egg shaped catkins (flowering tops). Adds movement to your garden with every passing breeze.
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Variegated Cat-Tail

Variegated Cat-Tail

A colorful variation of the common cat-tail. Distinctly striped light green and white leaves. Grows 4 to 5 feet tall and is extremely hardy. A perfect accent or background plant for any water garden.
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Pickerel Rush

Pickerel Rush

Considered by many to be the finest blue-flowered hardy aquatic in cultivation. This strong-growing plant attains 1 to 2 feet height, producing smooth, shiny olive green leaves.
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Sagittaria spp.

Sagittaria spp.

Sagittaria. A very easy to grow marginal plant with pure white flowers and contrasting green leaves. Grows to 24" tall. Easy to grow and survives harsh winters.
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Floating Heart

Floating Heart

These plants provide a wonderful display of delicate yellow fringed buttercup-like flowers among handsome green and mottled foliate reminiscent of a pygmy water lily.
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Hardy Thalia

Hardy Thalia

A handsome marginal plant with tall greyish leaves some 5 feet high, and arching sprays of small purplish flowers which makes it a distinctive and unusual plant for the pool. The plant is dusted over with a minute white powder which gives it a pretty glaucous appearance.
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Arrow Arum

Arrow Arum

A handsome sub-aquatic plant for shallow water at the edge of the pond. It produces glossy, arrowhead-shaped leaves, that are very fleshy. The flower mass and fruits are greenish.
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Bogbean

Bogbean

A perennial aquatic with creeping root stalks in shallow water. Its fragrant white flowers are borne on stout stalks, fringed and suffused with pink. One of the first to bloom in the spring. A true harbinger of spring. It will survive harsh winters under ice and snow. Native in the United States. If you have not seen our video CLICK HERE
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Water Pennywort

Water Pennywort

Add some lucky pennies to your water garden! Round penny shaped leaves balanced perfectly on a stem extending from 4 to 12 inches above the water. Showy fast growing foliage plant.
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Variegated Four Leaf Clover

Variegated Four Leaf Clover

A charming addition for every water garden, bringing the luck of the whimsical leprechaun. Lightly variegated with shades of green, the leaves float quietly on the water surface. If allowed to grow near the edge of the pool, the Four Leaf Water Clover will begin to send up aerial leaves. A flowerless aquatic plant related to the ferns.
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Water Hawthorn

Water Hawthorn

Water Hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyus). A most admirable plant that is known for its long blooming characteristics, and has been known in some locations to be still blooming at Christmas. With dark green strap-like leaves, about a foot long often mottled with brown or purple blotches and white contrasting coal black stamens, make this one of the loveliest of all water plants. They emit a strong fragrance resembling a wild hawthorn, hence the name. If you want an aquatic with fragrant flowers water hawthorn is a must! The plant will be the first to begin blooming in the cool Spring, in any Summer warm water the plant will show signs of dormancy and in the Fall produces a wonderful amount of aromatic blooms well into the winter months as ice begins to form on the pond. William Tricker selected an image of this wonderful plant in his 1897 Book "The Water Garden". His selection has adorned water gardens for decades to come! Do NOT miss a season without the aroma of this most admirable water garden plant!

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Zebra Rush

Zebra Rush

Produces white hortizontal stripes on a beautiful green stem, hence the name. Stripes are very prominent in spring and late fall. Mixed solid green stems found thoughout the year.
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