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aka Creeping Jenny

Excellent green creeper plant perfect to cover ponds edges. Yellow flowers are produced in summer time. Prefers moist soils but can tolerate fully submerged spot.

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aka Creeping Jenny

Excellent yellow-green creeper plant. Perfect to cover ponds edges or sprawl along as a groundcover. Yellow flowers are produced in summer time. Prefers moist soils but can tolerate fully submerged spot.

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aka Water mint

Water mint is a great little plant for boggy areas. Insects such as bees and butterflies love its lilac-coloured flowers and you will love its tasty leaves which can be used just like those of other mint plants. It prefers pond edges and swampy areas. Does best in full sun or part shade. Perennial.

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aka Monky musk

Easy grow submerged plant that tolerates cool temperatures if sheltered. Plants will grow submerged up to 5cm, or in a moist margin of a pond. The flowers are bright yellow and are produced on long stems in summer time. Perennial.
Suitable for warmer areas including Auckland/Northland

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aka Water Plant Milfoil

Aquatic. NZ native. Beautiful with its feathery foliage that carpets the water surface. Grows well by the pond edge or near moving water. Can grow at any depth and it will stretch until it reaches the surface. Excellent for fish spawning. Winter tolerant.

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aka Water plant Mares-tail

Aquatic. This has green pine-tree shoots that grow as a ground cover or can be fully submerged. It will extend up and carpet the water surface when grown submerged. Prefers full sun to shade areas. Relatively winter hardy. Perennial.

Excellent for oxygenating and maintaining clean water and providing protected enviroments for small fish and wildlife.

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aka Water Celery

A delightful slow growing marginal plant with variegated foliage in tones of pink, cream and green. Plant in pots with soil and gravel, or submerge in ponds where it will filter water. Young shoots and leaves can be eaten and are highly valued in Asian cuisine.

Tolerates light frosts only

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This prolific little aquatic plant develops pretty red leaf-tips if grown in bright light. It is easy to grow and will develop leaves of different shapes depending on whether or not it is fully immersed in water. When submerged, the leaves are narrow while emergent plants develop rounded leaves.

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aka Mouse Ears, Lizard tail or American swamp lily

Aquatic. An excellent pond plant or for swamps. It can be grown fully submerged in water (no deeper than 10cm) or in moist, boggy soil. Tolerates seasonal flooding. Has long hanging white flowers that curl on the tip like a lizards tail. Attractive with its heart shaped leaves. Perennial.

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aka Waterlily

Aquatic. This beautiful waterlily has pure white, semi-double flowers with golden stamens and green leaves. It does best in shallower water in full sun and is best suited to small or medium sized ponds. Blooms 15-20cm Planting depth 20-50cm Spreading

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aka Waterlily

Superb large semi-double blooms of cerise tinged with just a hint of white. The white streaks will gradually darken. Green bronze rounded leaves. Water lilies need an open sunny position in still water. Plant no deeper than approx. 1m. Flowering period is from summer through to autumn. Perennial.

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aka Waterlily

Large variety with non-stop blooming, deep red, almost black, peony shape flowers that are 12 to 15 cm across . Plant one per 14 litre planting container at a depth of 40 to 100 cm in order to have approximate square metre of surface coverage after a year or two.

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aka Waterlily Tropical

Tropical waterlily, with star shape flowers in light sky blue color. Free flowering with a spice sweet fragrance. An elegant and well behaved Water Lily that is suitable for small to medium size ponds or water pot planting.
Suitable for warmer areas including Auckland/Northland

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aka Waterlily

Dual coloured flowers of red fading to white. Yellow stamens. Green leaves with red edges. Blooms up to 13cm in diameter. Planting depth 30-60cm. Spread up to 100cm. Suitable for small ponds.