Aquatic pond plants, useful planting, flowering information

Aquatic pond plants are essential components of most water garden ponds. Choosing the correct aquatic pond plants can be difficult.

The working spreadsheet below can be obtained by completing the simple survey in the Water Gardens Gazette. It is in Excel format and covers 90 different aquatic and bog/marginal plants... You can sort by colour, size location etc.

The spreadsheet will be sent to you upon receipt of your survey information. If you don't have Excel you can get a copy in pdf format ... you cannot then use it to sort the columns in your preferred order as you would be able to do in Excel. The information is however complete.

The different columns are shown below the image:

Location

Latin name

Common name

Sun or shade preference

Flowering time

Colour of flower

Maximum height at maturity

Depth of water required where necessary