planting pond

[Frankie24]

Hi,

I have your set up a new pond and want to introduce some native plants. Is it to late in the year to buy and plant them up? Should I wait to the Spring? I feel I should at least put an oxygenator in now. Can anyone recommend a supplier of native plants?

[lavenderlass]

pond and wildlife plants

Hi,

I have your set up a new pond and want to introduce some native plants. Is it to late in the year to buy and plant them up? Should I wait to the Spring? I feel I should at least put an oxygenator in now. Can anyone recommend a supplier of native plants?

You probably have found an answer to your quest by now, but if you haven't I have used this company twice now, and like their ethos and wide selection of pond and wild flower plants.

Wild Flower Shop : buy Wild Flowers - Plants, Bulbs, Seeds & Meadow Mixes online.

They dispatch pond plants from late March to October.

[SkyChild]

I was just about to post about planting up a container pond - may as well put it here and see if anyone has suggestions... Any pond plants that aren't ferocious thugs? Most I've seen seem to grow quickly and take over. Considering the container isn't that big, I didn't want to fill the thing with one kind of plant

[Guest]

I used to have a 1m dia. round container and I had flag irises, great for damselflies and dragonflies to land on and frogbit, has little lily type leaves with yellow flowers and grows to the size of container. I tried various other things but failed miserably. Hopefully other grapes can recommend some more.

My failures included (although at different rates) monkey musk, another type of iris, corkscrew grass, fairy moss and water lettuce. Just incase you want to try them for yourself

[Bohobumble]

Again I am contemplating repurposing an old container to make a small area to attract frogs (think the size of those little ponds in Cambodia) and have been looking at this as a guide: http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/Pond%2...cm9-173115.pdf

[Verinda]

If you see any trace of duckweed growing up amongst your newly purchased plants pull it out immediately! Common Duckweed « AQUAPLANT

[libbyloulou]

Duck weed (fleabay) is sold as oxygenating plants
duck weed | eBay