This Week’s Best Pond Plants

Dragonfly & Pollinator Friendly

Pickerel Weed is a Pond Plant, that produces lilac flower spikes, loved by bees

Pickerel Weed | Pontederia cordata

Tall blue flower spikes

Glossy heart-shaped leaves

Full Sun

Pale green velvety rosette foliage

Water Lettuce | Pistia stratiotes

Amphibian Friendly

Medium Growth

Individual plant size: 10-20 cm

£20.00

Chinese Marshflower | Mazus reptans

Tiny blue‑mauve spring flowers

Dense small rounded green leaves

UK Native • Dragonfly Friendly

Dutch rush | Equisetum hyemale

Non‑flowering; spore cones

Hollow jointed green stems

Pollinator & amphibian friendly

Pygmaea Helvola Waterlily

Tiny soft yellow bloom

Green bronze mottled pads

Miniature, spread 30-45cm

From £32.00

Arum Lily | Zantedeschia aethiopica 'Crowborough'

Pure white spathes, yellow spadix

Semi-evergreen, arrow-shaped leaves

Full Sun or Partial Shade

UK Native • Newt Friendly

Water Forget Me Not | Myosotis scorpioides

Bright blue five-petaled flowers

Narrow oblong mid-green leaves

Full Sun to Partial Shade

Varies with species included

Bunched Oxygenator of the Week

UK Native • Pond Health

Bunched

Depth: 20-100cm

£15.50

Flowering Rush | Butomus umbellatus

UK Native • Pollinator Friendly

Tall pale pink flower umbels

Long narrow grass‑like leaves

Full sun

Bird & Dragonfly Friendly

Single Seed Head of Typha Minima - Plants for Ponds

Miniature Bulrush | Typha minima

Dark brown cylindrical spikes

Narrow linear green leaves

Full sun

UK Native • Newt Friendly

Creeping Jenny | Lysimachia nummularia

Bright yellow cup‑shaped flowers

Rounded vibrant green leaves

UK Native • Amphibian Shelter

Spiked Water Milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) - Plants for Ponds

Spiked Water Milfoil | Myriophyllum spicatum

Bunched, Fast Growth

Finely divided whorled green leaves

Depth: 30-450cm

£15.50

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.

Bog pimpernel | Anagallis Tenella

UK Native • Amphibian Friendly

Pale pink, star-like flowers

Small rounded bright green leaves

UK Native • Amphibian Shelter

Curly Pondweed | Potamogeton crispus

Bunched, Medium Growth

Curled narrow translucent leaves

Depth: 20-100cm

£15.50

White Ragged Robin | Silene flos-cuculi 'White Robin'

Pure white ragged flowers

Mid-green lance-shaped leaves

Full sun to partial shade

Pollinator & amphibian friendly

Gonnere White Waterlily - Plants for Ponds

Gonnere Waterlily

White double starry flowers

Deep green rounded leaves

Medium, spread 75-100cm

From £38.00

Iris louisiana 'Black Gamecock'

Pollinator & Amphibian Friendly

Deep velvety purple flowers

Tall sword-like green leaves

UK Native | Amphibian Shelter

Shoreweed | Littorella uniflora

Potted, Medium Growth

Narrow pale green rosette leaves

Depth: 0-200cm

UK Native • Newt Friendly

Brooklime | Veronica beccabunga

Small blue two-lipped flowers

Broad oval mid-green leaves

Small inconspicuous brown spikes

Corkscrew rush | Juncus effusus var. spiralis

Amphibian Friendly

Spirally coiled deep green stems

Full sun to Light Partial Shade

Chameleon Plant | Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon'

Creamy white late spring spikes

Variegated heart‑shaped leaves

Mimulus cupreus 'Red Emperor'

Bright scarlet trumpet flowers

Downy light green toothed leaves

Full sun