Dragonfly Aquatics Blog

Achieving Pond Nirvana – Six Plants For Your Pond

There are five different types of plants that you will want to add to your pond to provide beauty and help you achieve an ecological balance in your water garden.   Submerged Plants Submerged plants such as Anacharis, Vallisneria, Cabomba, Hornwort and Red Ludwigia remove nutrients from the water so algae can’t thrive. Submerged plants do [...]

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Butterflies

Attracting butterflies to your backyard water feature is easy.  It’s another one of  life’s simple pleasures that all gardeners enjoy.  Some of the plants that will attract butterflies to your pond are: Butterfly Bush (Asclepias incarnata) – Favorite Aquatic Mint (Mentha aquatica) Marsh Forget-Me-Nots (Myosotis scorpioides) Lavender Musk (Mimulas ringens) Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) Blue Lobelia [...]

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Water Celery, Variegated

Variegated Water Celery, (Oenanthe javanica ‘flamingo’) is a great plant for along edges of your water feature, draping down a waterfalls or planted in a stream bed.  You can also contain it in a bio-filter or upper pond and then it will grow to trail over your falls.  Its variegated leaves of light green,white and [...]

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Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)

Cardinal flowers are known for their intense bright red flowers, which bloom July through October.  Cardinal flowers grow best  in sun to part shade.  Plant it in  moist soil or water no more than 3 inches deep.  It will spread to about 12 inches.  Hardy in Zones 5-11 but will be fine to Zone 3 with snow coverage.  A [...]

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Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris)

Spring is here and one of the first flowers to awaken in your pond is the Marsh Marigolds.   With dark glossy green leaves, bright and cheerful deep yellow flowers, we get excited by the upcoming flourish of flowers in our ponds.  Marsh marigolds only bloom in the spring but in some cooler climates they may have a re-bloom.  If [...]

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Flowering Rush (Butomus umbellatus)

Flowering Rush (Butomus umbellatus) has blossoms that are much more impressive than its foliage, small delicate rose pink flowers.  Graceful long green stems and atop a cluster of flowers.  The flower is about 5″ across ontop of 2′ to 4′ stems. Flowering Rush usually start to bloom toward the end of spring or early summer.  It [...]

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