Zone 1 - pond edge plants
Planting around your pond has many benefits and looks attractive – softening hard pond edges, adding colour and foliage interest. Plants provide food, shelter and safe access for wildlife into your pond^. Tall stems make great perches for flying insects and birds. Also provides shade and protects your pond from wind, creating a moist microclimate that's cool and damp, even in hot spells. Roots bind the soil, reducing bank collapse, trap nutrients and soil from draining into your pond, which reduces algae growth and cloudy water. Top tip: It's wise to choose plants that don't drop leaves or overhang as this can clog up your pond and will need clearing.
Plants (56)
Asplenium scolopendrium 'Cristatum Group'
Harts tongue fern, Crested Harts tongue fern
Hakonechloa macra
Hakone grass, Urahagusa, Japanese reed grass
Hakonechloa macra 'Alboaurea'
Hakone grass, Urahagusa, Japanese reed grass
Hosta
Plantain lily, Funkia
Vinca minor
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Atropurpurea'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Illumination'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Ralph Shugert'
Lesser periwinkle, Common periwinkle
Vinca minor f. alba
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Anagallis tenella
Pink bog pimpernel
Asplenium scolopendrium
Hart's tongue fern
Asplenium scolopendrium
Hart's tongue fern
Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustifolia'
Hart's tongue fern
Asplenium scolopendrium Crispum Group
Hart's tongue fern
Astilbe 'Avalanche'
False goats beard
Baldellia ranunculoides
Lesser plantain
Carex pendula
Weeping sedge, Great drooping sedge, Pendulous sedge
Carex pendula 'Moonraker'
Variegated weeping sedge
Epimedium x versicolor
Garden hybrid epimedium, Bicolor barrenwort
Epimedium x versicolor 'Neosulphureum'
Garden hybrid epimedium, Bicolor barrenwort
Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum'
Garden hybrid epimedium, Bicolor barrenwort
Equisetum hyemale
Rough horsetail, Dutch rush, Scouring rush
Equisetum scirpoides
Dwarf scouring rush
Hakonechloa macra
Hakone grass, Urahagusa, Japanese reed grass
Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold'
Hakone grass
Iris ensata 'Dinner Plate Jell-O'
Japanese water iris
Iris ensata 'Gold Bound'
Japanese water iris
Iris ensata Dinner Plate Series
Japanese water iris
Iris louisiana 'Heather Stream'
Iris sibirica
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Iris sibirica 'Anniversary'
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Iris sibirica 'Dreaming Yellow'
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Iris sibirica 'Fourfold Lavender'
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Iris sibirica 'Limeheart'
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Iris sibirica 'Navy Brass'
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Iris sibirica 'Sea Shadows'
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Iris sibirica 'Tropic Night'
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Iris sibirica 'White Swirl'
Siberian iris, Meadow iris
Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo'
Variegated water droplet
Phyla nodiflora
Frogfruit
Vinca minor 'Argenteovariegata'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Aureovariegata'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Azurea Flore Pleno'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Blue and Gold'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor 'Bowles's Variety'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Vinca minor f. alba 'Alba Variegata'
Lesser periwinkle, Lesser creeping myrtle, Common perwinkle
Asplenium scolopendrium 'Angustatum'
Narrow Harts tongue fern