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The ‘Water Pennywort’ aquatic plant have round penny-shaped leaves balanced perfectly on its stem that extends from 4 to 12 inches above the water.
This is a showy fast growing foliage plant. The plant bears numerous small white flowers. Native in the United States.
The ‘Common Cattail’ is a favorite native swamp plants with tall foliage and large brown cattails.
They make an attractive site in your pond or lake especially during a gentle summer breeze.
These cattail bog plants help to clarify the water.
This ‘Rainbow Water Celery’ Plant plant grows rapidly and can spread across the water using its rhizomes. It’ll add a most attractive display to your water garden.
Everyone is familiar with the popular forget-me-not flowers frequently seen in parks and terrestrial gardens. Here is it’s aquatic counterpart — the Water Forget-Me-Not.
During early summer this charming plant is absolutely smothered in sky blue flowers that resemble almost exactly those of its terrestrial counterpart.
Glyceria is an easy to grow water side plant with striking vegetation. The light-moderate green leaves display white stripes.
The ‘Common Sweet Flag’ grows 2 to 3 feet long leaf blades similar to an iris.
This native plant was once used for aromatic candles. When any part of the plant is cut or bruised, a spicy sweet citrus scent is released.
It has an outstanding foliage perfect for any size water garden.
Native to the United States, this ‘Grassleaf Arrowhead’ is an easy-to-grow bog plant with pure white flowers and contrasting green leaves.
It can reach 24″ tall and survives harsh winters.
The ‘Giant Arrowhead’ is mainly found in water, but it can also be seen growing near the borders of ponds in shallow, temporary water, and sometimes in muddy areas influenced by tides. This perennial plant has leaves that can grow as tall as 1 to 3 feet. Its beautiful flowers blossom from June until September.
The’Variegated Four-Leaf Clover’, related to the ferns, is a charming addition for every water garden, bringing the luck of the whimsical leprechaun.
It’s lightly variegated with shades of green, the leaves float quietly on the water surface. Near the edge of the pool, the ‘Variegated Four-Leaf Clover’ Plant will begin to send up aerial leaves as seen in the second image.
The Cardinal Flower is one of the most beautiful shallow-water native aquatic flowers. It’s natural setting is in meadows and along stream banks. With its deep red color in the flower, consider planting it close to the water so the reflections will be mirrored.
The perennial ‘Bogbean’ has creeping root stalks in shallow water. The fragrant white flowers grow atop its stout stalks, fringed and suffused with pink coloration.
It will be one of your first aquatic plants to bloom in spring and to survive harsh winters under ice and snow. This plant is native in the United States.
An unusual plant, the Lizard’s Tail is native to the USA and has small fragrant flowers. This handsome aquatic plant has somewhat of a heart shaped leaf.
Botanical Name: Saururus cernuus”
The Blue Iris was growing over a century ago, around 1900. Even back then, the beauty of the Blue Iris is selected for its form and admiration.
The “Centerpiece 8 Collection” features a selection of eight (8) shallow-water plants carefully chosen by our skilled greenhouse team to elevate the beauty of your water garden.
Resembling the plants popular in the 1920s, this collection will provide your water garden with a timeless and inviting appearance. These plants have been favorites among Tricker’s customers for many years, ensuring their quality and appeal.
The collection comprises eight (8) tropical and hardy shallow-water plants that are beloved for their popularity and beauty.
To create an authentic Japanese garden, it is essential to have a unique assortment of six (6) miniature tropical and hardy bog and shallow water plants that thrive in shallow water.
The varying heights and textures of these plants will bring a distinctive charm to the overall look and feel of your garden.
Not Included: water lilies or lotuses. This is a collection of plants to set near the perimeter of your pond to complete the scene.
All six plants will be carefully selected by the greenhouse crew.
“Tricker’s Special 10 Collection” is a wonderful mixture of 10 hardy and tropical varieties of shallow water and bog plants for the water garden pool.
All varieties are selected by our crew and will be labeled and specially priced and selected for prolific growth.
Not Included: Water lilies and lotuses. This is to complete your pond with plants that grow at the perimeter in soggy soil or shallow water.
The ‘Variegated Sweet Flag’ bog plant is a cousin to the sweet flag but variegated.
It grows 2 to 3 feet tall and has similar blades to the iris.
When any part of the plant is crushed, cut or bruised it will emit a spicy sweet citrus scent.
This will make an outstanding plant for any size water garden with its unusual flower.
The Double Arrowhead’ is similar to the ‘Giant Arrowhead’ in foliage but one that develops a spike of beautiful double, petaled pure-white flowers. It grows as well as other bog plants.
The leaves broad and sword-like. This is the water garden variety that loves the water garden pond.
‘Spike Rush’ is a grass-like native aquatic plant that grows in wonderful green clumps with attractive brown flower tops. Easy to grow and adds a dash of color to your water garden pool. It can grow about one foot tall.
This ‘Dwarf Sweet Flag is a real dwarfer and more slender-growing species than the common ‘Sweet Flag’ This aquatic plant forms compact grassy tufts, 8″ to 12″ tall.
This plant is perfect in very shallow water or at the pond’s edge.
This ‘American Water Plantain’ grows broad leaves with coarse veins. The pinkish or white flowers are at the ends of stiff stems that grow above the leaves. The broad towering spires become hard and woody after flowering and persist throughout the winter, catching the snow on their outspread arms.
This handsome ‘Thalia’ is a marginal plant with tall grayish leaves sometimes 5-feet tall. Its arching sprays of small purplish flowers makes it a distinctive and unusual plant for the water garden. The plant is dusted over with a minute white powder which gives it a pretty glaucous appearance.
The “Hardy 10 Shallow Water Aquatic Plant Collection” has an majestic tall, medium, and gracefully spreading varieties. Each will be meticulously handpicked from our thriving stock, ensuring only the finest specimens are included. These extraordinary aquatic plants are offered at an exclusive price, befitting their exceptional quality and allure.
The hardy Variegated Cattail is a colorful variation of the common tail with striped light green and white leaves. It can reach up to 5′ tall.
With its wildly striped leaves in vivid shades of light green and white, it looks like it was painted by Mother Nature herself. This beautiful cattail will instantly jazz up any backdrop. And get this – it’s extremely hardy, so you can count on a gorgeous, lasting accent. Let the party start in your pond with this fantastically fun variation of the common cattail!
This ‘Dwarf Bamboo, native to the United States, prefers well-drained soil. This hardy bamboo-like bog plant will add a wonderful bamboo look to your water garden.
The deep-green foliage has attractive tips.
They grow to about 2 feet.
Give your water garden a special bamboo-like appearance.
This ‘Graceful Cattail’ emanates an air of grace and dignity not encountered in any other genus of hardy aquatics.
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The ‘Water Cress’ aquatic plant has dark green leaves and small white flowers that are a pleasing contrast to the more feathery submerged oxygenating plants. It thrives well at the edge of running water.
It’s edible and is used in salads or as a garnish for other foods.
This is sold in bunches of rooted stems. Give your water garden a treat as well as yourself.
Banned in CT
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This aquatic flower will be one of the first to bloom in the cool spring. In the summer’s warm, water the plant will show signs of dormancy. In fall, a wonderful amount of aromatic blooms will appear into the winter months as ice begins to form on the pond.
This plant will give off a strong fragrance resembling a wild hawthorn, hence the name. If you want an aquatic with fragrant flowers water hawthorn is a must!
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This ‘Pickerel Rush’ is one of the finest blue-flowered hardy aquatic plants and is native to the U.S.A. It’s a strong-growing plant that can grow 1′ – 2′ tall.
The pads are smooth and shiny olive-green. This is extremely hardy in Northern climates, winters well in Ohio with ice and snow in the winter months!
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This ‘Dwarf Catkin Cattail’ is one of our customer’s favorites because it grows 3′ to 4′ tall with light brown, almost egg shaped catkins, the flowering tops.
It will add movement to your garden with every passing breeze. Add this cattail to that special place in your small or large water garden that shows a graceful movement in the summer breezes.
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This ‘Hardy Calla’ is an attractive little native plant that bears many small, shiny, heart-shaped leaves one year, and two leaves and a small white arum-like flower the next. In autumn, a globular cluster of red berries appear.
The plant is one of the few known to be fertilized by snails.
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‘Wild Rice’ plants, native to the United States, are desirable aquatic grasses because it’s one of the most attractive plants used for pond decoration.
It can grow 8 to 9 feet tall, with broad, flat leaves and reedy stems.
The grain it makes is excellent for fish and water fowl.
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The aquatic ‘Horsetail’ plant is a nice addition to the edge of your pond. It’s a perennial herbaceous plant that can grow up to 3- to 4-feet tall. Its narrow stems are dark green and erect. At each joint of the stem, there is a whorl of small scale leaves that are black-tipped. Some stems also have short branches that ascend and spread.
Did you know that the stems of this ‘Horsetail’ is used to shape the reeds for instruments such as saxophones , oboes, bassoons, and clarinets?
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The ‘Zebra Rush’ got its name from the white horizontal stripes on the beautiful green stem. The prominent stripes will make your water garden attractive — Tricker’s growing techniques enhance the stripes. The stripes will be prominent in spring and late fall. It will display mixed solid green stems throughout the year.
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Early in the growing season, you’ll admire the Marsh Marigold. It’s a quaint native hardy flower that has rich golden flowers.
It can reach 9 to 15 inches high and has roundish leaves. The yellow flowers resemble giant buttercups.
The marsh marigold will go dormant as temperatures warm up in spring and throughout summer months. The next spring, it will return even if there’s a bit of snowfall.
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