Plants add interest to a pond, encouraging and sheltering wildlife in the process. Helping to keep the water clear and oxygenated, they're essential for pond health and choosing the right plants will create the perfect mini ecosystem in your garden. Our curated collection of hand-picked plants will help to create the perfect setting in your garden, allowing you full enjoyment of your pond as well as helping resident or visiting wildlife. The perfect way to fill your pond with colourful and functional plants with no effort at all, our Starter Pond Plant Collection contains a mix of 6 of the most useful plants to give you a complete range, suitable for most ponds. Curated to get your pond up and running in next to no time, this mix is perfect if you're new to ponds and are not sure where to start or if you have an existing pond and want to add more plants. We've done the work for you and put together this collection to help you get the right balance in your pond. Our Pond Plant Collection contains: Calla Palustris (bog arum): Marginal pond plant with arum-like flowers, glossy leaves and a sprawling habit. Excellent for disguising pond edges, this hardy perennial will reach 25cm (10in) high and 60cm (24in) wide. Pontederia cordata (pickerel weed) (AGM): Marginal pond plant with bright green leaves and small tubular deep blue flowers. Grows to 60cm (24in) Typha latifolia (bulrush): Marginal-shallow water plant which will thrive in up to 1m (3ft) depth of water. Grows to 1.5m-3m (5-10ft) high. Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush): Marginal to 25cm deep. An herbaceous perennial growing to 1.2m, with upright, twisted grassy leaves and stiff stems bearing heads of fragrant rosy-pink flowers. Caltha palustris (marsh marigold): An RHS Plants for Pollinators, this is a perennial plant for the pond edge with rounded, rich green leaves and clusters of deep yellow flowers 4cm (2in) in width. Eriophorum angustifolium (common cotton grass): Marginal perennial (to 5cm deep) with tufts of dark green, linear leaves, with white-hairy flower-heads in summer. Please note that varieties may change depending on seasonal availability.
The VegTrug Poppy Go Planter is a cheerful and good-looking planter that is ideally suited to the smaller garden, patio, balcony or roof garden. It's brilliant for people who want to try their hand at growing their own vegetables, fruits, small shrubs, perennials or bedding but are limited on garden space. The 'V' shape of the Poppy Go means that you are still able to plant deep rooted vegetables within a small space. It's also perfect for those who only want to grow a few plants, or those who would like to try gardening on a smaller scale. Thanks to the convenient height (79cm) of this handy and portable planter, elderly gardeners and wheelchair users may find it much easier to garden without having to kneel or bend down to compromise posture. The VegTrug Poppy Go is the perfect answer for people who are living in rented accommodation as they won't waste time and effort on the garden, only to have to leave their hard work - and possibly their crops - behind! Easy to assemble lightweight frame manufactured from powder coated steel, made to be rust resistant for longer. This product has rubber and angled feet caps for greater stability and also includes a pre-formed liner that has a membrane sewn in, this allows superior drainage and aeration promoting fuller and healthier plant development. Product dimensions (cm) L - 65 W - 40 H - 79 Weight: 2kg
If you are unable to make your mind up this year about which Perennials to plant in your garden, then why not try our Popular Perennials Collection. You will receive a mix Perennials made up of at least 5 different varieties of our best-sellers.
If you are unable to make your mind up this year about which Perennials to plant in your garden, then why not try our Popular Perennials Collection. You will receive a mix Perennials made up of at least 5 different varieties of our best-sellers.
These large, double-flowered Portulaca Bedding Plants are perfect for hot and dry parts of your garden, as they have an unrivalled heat and drought tolerance. With a vivid mix of colours in shades of pink, orange and white, they are ideal for your hanging baskets or as ground cover plants.
These large, double-flowered Portulaca Bedding Plants are perfect for hot and dry parts of your garden, as they have an unrivalled heat and drought tolerance. With a vivid mix of colours in shades of pink, orange and white, they are ideal for your hanging baskets or as ground cover plants.
These large, double-flowered Portulaca Bedding Plants are perfect for hot and dry parts of your garden, as they have an unrivalled heat and drought tolerance. With a vivid mix of colours in shades of pink, orange and white, they are ideal for your hanging baskets or as ground cover plants.
These large double flowered Portulaca bedding plants love hot and dry parts of the garden as they have excellent heat and drought tolerance. This Portulaca has a bright mix of flowers and comes already planted up in a reusable hanging basket.
These large double flowered Portulaca bedding plants love hot and dry parts of the garden as they have excellent heat and drought tolerance. This Portulaca has a bright mix of flowers and comes already planted up in a reusable hanging basket.
These large double flowered Portulaca bedding plants love hot and dry parts of the garden as they have excellent heat and drought tolerance. This Portulaca has a bright mix of flowers and comes already planted up in a reusable hanging basket.
These large double flowered Portulaca bedding plants love hot and dry parts of the garden as they have excellent heat and drought tolerance. This Portulaca has a bright mix of flowers and comes already planted up in a reusable hanging basket.
Ideal for patio planters, edging garden paths, in rockeries and garden borders, these mixed coloured Carnations benefit from profuse flowering and have a compact habit.