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Plants for Shady Ponds

Plants for Shady Ponds

Got a shady pond or low-light garden corner? These plants are perfect. They’re naturally adapted to thrive with less sun, offering texture, flowers and wildlife cover even in tricky spots.

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Hornwort | Ceratophyllum demersum

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Fine, thread-like, spiky leaves
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Frogbit | Hydrocharis morsus ranae

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Small white flowers
Small, heart-shaped, glossy green leaves, white flowers
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Water Crowfoot | Ranunculus aquatilis

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Thread-like submerged, lobed floating
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Bunched Oxygenator of the Week

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Varies, depending on plants included
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Water Hawthorn | Aponogeton distachyos

Pollinator & Amphibian Friendly
Scented, forked flowers
Narrow, oval, delicate leaves
Full Sun or Partial Shade
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Water Forget Me Not | Myosotis scorpioides

UK Native • Newt Friendly
Blue
Semi-evergreen. Narrow, oblong mid-green leaves
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Water Lettuce | Pistia stratiotes

Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Velvety, pale green, rosette leaves.
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Water Violet | Hottonia palustris

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Finely divided, feathery leaves
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Slender Club Rush | Isolepis cernua

Amphibian Friendly
Tiny white flower heads
Fine, grass-like green stems
Full sun to partial shade
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Marsh Marigold | Caltha palustris

UK Native • Pollinator Friendly
Bright yellow, cup-shaped flowers
Rich green, rounded, heart-shaped leaves
Full Sun
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Creeping Jenny | Lysimachia nummularia

UK Native • Newt Friendly
Bright golden-yellow
Rounded, vibrant green
Full sun to Partial Shade
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Fringed Water Lily | Nymphoides peltata

UK Native • Pollinator & Amphibian Friendly
Delicate, yellow fringed flowers
Rounded, small fringed leaves
Full Sun or Partial Shade
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Water Soldier | Stratiotes aloides

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸
White flower
Sword-shaped, serrated, rosette-forming leaves.
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Bog Pimpernel - Carpet Forming Bog Plant with Pretty Pink Flowers
 
Bog Pimpernel - Carpet Forming Bog Plant with Pretty Pink Flowers
Bog Pimpernel - A Pond Plant, great for boggy areas, produces lots of pink flowers and low growing.
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Bog pimpernel | Anagallis Tenella

UK Native • Amphibian Friendly
Pale Pink
Small, elliptic to rounded bright green leaves
Full sun to Partial Shade
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Water Chestnut | Trapa natans

Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Rosettes of toothed, red-tinged leaves.
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Willow Moss | Fontinalis antipyretica

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Soft, branched, moss-like leaves
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Starwort | Callitriche stagnalis

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸 | Newt Friendly 🦎
Bright green, oval, floating leaves
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Blue Flag | Iris versicolor

Pollinator & Dragonfly Friendly
Deep purple with yellow and white speckled centres
Tall, sword-like green leaves
Full sun to Partial Shade
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Water Mint | Mentha Aquatica

UK Native • Newt Friendly
Lilac, globular clusters
Oval, toothed green leaves, strong minty aroma
Full sun to partial shade
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Dutch rush | Equisetum hyemale

UK Native • Dragonfly Friendly
Non-flowering; produces cone-like spore structures
Hollow, jointed green stems with black banding (evergreen)
Full sun to Partial Shade
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Brooklime | Veronica beccabunga

UK Native • Newt Friendly
Blue
Broad, glossy, oval green leaves
Full sun to Partial Shade
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Brandy Bottle | Nupar lutea

UK Native • Pollinator & Amphibian Friendly
Buttercup, bright yellow flowers
Large, rounded, lily-like leaves
Full Sun or Partial Shade
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Mare's tail | Hippuris vulgaris

UK Native 🇬🇧 | Loved by Amphibians 🐸
Whorls of bright green, needle-like leaves
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Yellow flag | Iris pseudacorus

UK Native • Pollinator Friendly
Golden-yellow
Tall, sword-like green leaves
Full sun to Partial Shade
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