Water Plants
Marginals
These plants live at the water’s edge.The roots of Marginal Plants clean the water of excess nutrients - helping to keep algae in check. Tall Marginals give the pond a striking vertical design element; many of these summer beauties grow high and wave in the summer breeze and attract Humming Birds and Butterflies to your yard.









Floaters
These plants are tropical visitors to northern landscapes and won’t survive past the first hard frost of fall. They are fascinating plants that have air bladders at the base of their leaves that keep them afloat on the pond’s surface. Long feathery roots dangle down into the water as they shift around on the surface nudged by the summer breeze. Floaters provide algae-suppressing shade and cooling for the water, their dangling roots help clean pond water and provide a great habitat for small fish. Floaters multiply quite rapidly when the weather warms, ultimately producing a dense mat of green leaves on the pond surface.
WE DO NOT SELL PLANTS THAT ARE CONSIDERED AN INVASIVE SPECIES IN CANADA.
Oxygenators
These plants are the key to pond health.
There are Hardy and Tropical plants in this important group. Oxygenators perform best when completely submerged in the pond.
Some have roots that anchor them to the pond bottom or sides – others float gracefully in the water body. Oxygenators consume excess (algae causing) nutrient; their lush feathery leaves pump oxygen into the water during daylight hours - and they provide a perfect environment for small fish.


Water Lilies
Water Lilies are the Queen of the Pond; stunningly beautiful, fragrant starburst flowers float on the surface, surrounded by a blanket of waxy round leaves. The roots of Water Lilies like to be well below the surface of the pond (below the winter ice depth), and like all pond plants, they like only still or slow-moving water. Many of these wonderful plants are hardy – and for the pond enthusiast – tropical water lilies add a new level of bloom size and color. Water lily leaves (like Floaters) help to shade the pond water - keeping it cool, less friendly to algae, and inviting to small fish.