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Water Gardening
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  Floating Aquatic Plants
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The floating aquatic plants are tropical plants. Floating plants are very useful in the garden pool. The extensive root system serves as a spawning pad and provides a place for fish to hide. They are extreemly useful in helping to maintain a balanced pool. The floating foliage provides shade cover which helps stabilize water temperature. The root system helps provide oxygen. In addition the plants compete with algae for nutrients in the water thus starving algae.
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  Eichorinia crassipes
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Bulbous green floating plant with lilac flowers, grows in part shade or shade. Price $4.95
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Floating Leaf Aquatics
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Floating leaf aquatics are plants with foliage that floats on the water surface. They are great contrast plants to the larger foliage of water lily. In addition, the flowering plants produce a proliferation of small dainty flowers.
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Hydrocleys nymphoides
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Pale yellow flowers held slightly above the surface. Dark green nearly round leaves, placed 4-12" under the water, in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Hardy Marginal/Bog Plants
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The marginal and bog plants are traditionally planted along the margins of the pond or in moist soil. In water gardening, both marginal and bog plants are commonly referred to as marginal plants.The marginal plants provide the vertical touch to a garden pond. Marginals make the pool look lush and attractive. The garden pool needs the vertical plants to offset the horizontal surface of the water and the horizontal growth habit of water lilies. Water lilies provide the 'pizzazz', marginals provide the structure.
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Acorus calamus
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Erect sword-like green foliage, 2-3' tall placed 5" below the water in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Equisetum hymale
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One of the oldest known plants. Tubular-jointed green stem.growing to a height of 3', placed 6" below the water in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Houttynia cordata
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Red, blue, green and cream colored leaves. White flowers. Good ground cover for moist areas. Grows about 6" tall and is placed 4" under the water in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Hydrocotyl vulgaris
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Shield shape-green. Dense growth. Small white flowers, growing to a height of 6", and should be placed 6" below the water in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Hydrocotyle umbellata
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Small shield-shaped green leaves. Blade cut deeply from edge to center, grows to a height of 6",and should be placed 6" below the water in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Lobelia cardinalis
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Red tubular flowers, leaves dark green oval to lance shaped, toothed, growing 1-3' tall, placed 4" under the water in partial shade. Price $11.95
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Lobelia siphilitica
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Blue tubular flowers on plants that grow 1-3' tall and are placed on a moist surface, in partial shade. Price $11.95
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Lysmachia nummularie 'Aurea'
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Bright yellow flowers, Pretty carpeting foliage, Mass of golden leaves. Low creeping habit placed 2" under the water in partial shade. Price $9.25
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Marsilea quadrifolia
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Four-lobed leaves rise out of the water 4-8",growing 6' tall and placed 6" below the water in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Mentha aquatica
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Lilac colored flowers, sweet fragrant foliage, growing 1' tall,and placed 3" below the water, in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Mimulus ringens
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Shrubby aquatic. Lavender flowers, growing to a height of 2', and place 3' under the water, in full sun or shade. Price $11.95
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Myosotis paulustris
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Dense matt of tiny green leaves covered with tiny blue flowers, growing to a height of 6", and placed 3" under the water, in full sun or shade. Price $11.95
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Myriophyllum aquatica
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Floating fern-like foliage. Foliage trails across the water, growing to a height of 6", and placed 12" under the water, in full sun or partial shade. Price $4.95
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Pontederia cordata
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Deep green calla-like leaves. Deep blue flowers borne on spikes, growing to a height of 2-3' tall, and placed 3" below the water, in full sun or partial shade. Price $8.95
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Sagittaria latifolia
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Light green arrowhead-like leaves. Three-petaled white flower, growing 2' tall, and placed 12" below the water, in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Scirpus tabernamontani zebrinus
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Horizontal dark green and white stripes, growing 3' tall, and placed 12" under water, in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Typha angustifolia
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Narrow dark green blades. Thin catkins 5-6" long, growing to a height of 6-7',and placed 12" under water, in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Typha latifolia
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Catkins 1-1 1/2" in diameter, 5-6" long, growing 7' tall, and placed 12" under water, in full sun or partial shade. Price $11.95
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Hardy Water Lilies (Nymphaea)
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Hardy water lilies are often responsible for a person becoming interested in water gardening. The floating foliage, with colorful flowers creates a visual image unlike any other in the garden. Hardy water lilies are perennial. The pad reflects heat during the day and holds heat in at night thus stabilizing temperature and assisting in algae control. In order to environmentally balance a pool, 40-60 percent of the water surface should be covered with floating foliage.
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Nymphae 'Chrysantha'
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Reddish Yellow. Blooms turn red with age. Free flowering, medium size plants placed in full sun or partial shade. Price $32.50
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Nymphae 'Firecrest'
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Deep pink. Very fragrant. Petals lie open to expose red-tipped stamens, Medium size placed in full sun. Price $32.50
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Nymphae 'Sunrise'
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Bright yellow. Large flowers, stay open later in the day than other lilies, Medium to large place in full sun. Price $32.50
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Nymphae 'Walter Pagels'
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White flowers with pink sepals. Small plants that like full sun. Price $32.50
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Oxygenated Plants
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Submerged plants are essential to maintain a proper balance in the pool. They add oxygen to the water and serve as a filter by absorbing dissolved nutrients and competing with algae. Oxygenated plants are essential for pools with fish. Not only do they help establish a natural balance in the pool, they also serve as a food source, spawning mats, and a hiding place for baby fish.
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Elodea canadensis
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Dark green stems with lighter green fern-like foliage. Good spawning medium. Bunches of eight. Pot and place under water. Price $3.95 per bunch.
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Tropical Marginal/Bog Plants
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Tropical bog plants are very useful in the water garden because of their unique characteristics. Flowering tropical plants bloom continuously throughout the summer. Their distinctive foliage add a lush look often desired in the water garden.
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Cyperus alternifolius
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Foliage is distinctive. Whorled leaves on top of the stem, growing 5' tall, and placed 6" below the water, grown in full sun or shade. $9.95 and up.
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Water Iris
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The ever popular water irises are gardener favorites. The early flowers of spring herald the coming of the water lilies and provide a touch of color while you wait.. After the flowering period, the foliage of the iris is an attractive contrast to the other marginals with coarse foliage or broad leaves.
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Iris 'Psuedocorus'
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Yellow flowers, 3-4' tall,place 0-6" deep in full sun. Price: $9.25
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