Dragonfly Aquatics Blog

Essential Summer Pond Care

There are some essential tasks to take care of during the summer while enjoying your pond.  Water plants can outgrow their containers during the warm summer months. If your waterlilies are covering too much pond surface, simply prune outer leaves of the lily down to half their spread. You will want to remove dead lily pads [...]

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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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Pond Plants and Surviving the Unpredictable Spring Season

Ah! It’s finally Spring, or so we think. Mother Nature has a way of tricking even the most experienced water gardener. We finally have a week of warm temperatures, things are coming alive in our ponds. After months of rain, sleet, snow and ice we are all ecstatic. Armed with our pond gloves, waders and [...]

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Care Instructions Upon Receiving Aquatic Plants

When you receive pond plants by mail order they don’t always appear as lush plants having used their stored moisture during shipping.  For this reason we recommend the following. Remove the pond plants  from their bags and place them in some water (65-70 degrees) in the shade.  This will allow the plants to replenish moisture that may [...]

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Tropical Water Lily

Thought I would share some pictures periodically taken from my pond and my sisters.  We enjoy sharing our pictures and seeing pictures of other ponds and pond plants.

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