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Hardy Shallow Water and Bog Plants

Natural ponds have a profusion of flags, rushes, reeds and small flowering plants which delight the eye. Your pool will be more attractive and much more naturalistic when planted with clumps of these ornamental plants. There are hardy and tropical plants, each having their own desirable traits. Hardy Shallow Water and Bog Plants typically are considered perennials and will show their beauty year after year. Make sure to select a mixture of these wonderful plants with the tropical bog plants.
  • Early Flowering 'Water Hawthorn'

    Early-Flowering ‘Water Hawthorn’

    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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  • 'American Water Plantain' Bog Plant

    ‘American Water Plantain’ Bog Plant

    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.

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  • 'Hardy 'Thalia' Bog Plants

    Hardy ‘Thalia’ Bog Plants

    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.

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  • 'Water Cress' Flowering Plant

    ‘Water Cress’ Flowering Plant

    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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  • 'Double Arrowhead' Aquatic Plant

    ‘Double Arrowhead’ Aquatic Plant

    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.

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  • On Sale Today! Surprise Centerpiece 8 Shallow-Water Plants Collection: Tropical and Hardy Bog Plants

    Hardy 10 Shallow-Water Plant Surprise Collection

    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.

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  • 'Horsetail' Aquatic Plant

    ‘Horsetail’ Aquatic Plant

    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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  • 'Arrow Arum' Bog Plant

    ‘Arrow Arum’ Bog Plant

    This ‘Arrow Arum’ is a handsome sub-aquatic plant for shallow water at the edge of the pond. It grows glossy, arrowhead-shaped leaves, that are very fleshy similar to the “Hardy Calla”. The flower mass and fruits are greenish.

    This species is native to the United States.

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  • 'Dwarf Bamboo' with the pygmy water lily, 'Dauben'.

    ‘Dwarf Bamboo’ Hardy Live Plant

    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.

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  • 'Zebra Rush' Bog Plant

    ‘Zebra Rush’ Bog Plant

    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-Flowering 'Marsh Marigold'

    Early-Flowering ‘Marsh Marigold’

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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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    Variegated Cattail Live Plants

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    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.

    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!

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    Graceful Cattail Plant

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    This ‘Graceful Cattail’ displays an air of grace and dignity  that birds love to land on and much the seeds in fall.

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    ‘Dwarf Catkin’ Cattail

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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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  • Hardy Pickerel Rush Aquatic Plant

    Hardy ‘Pickerel Rush’ Plants

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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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  • 'Hardy Calla' Bog Plants

    ‘Hardy Calla’ Bog Plants

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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' Bog Plants

    ‘Wild Rice’ Bog Plants

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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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