Plant availability list for 2024

Advice can be given on the best plants for your pond.

Please be aware that not all plants will be available from the 1st of April.

This is a comprehensive list for the whole season.

It will be updated as the season progresses.

 

Updated 27/03/24

 

Plant (N = NATIVE)

AVAILABLE NOW =AN

(April the 1st)

Planting Depth (above the pot)

1 litre square pots 11cm tall/ 11cm diameter

2 litre round pots 13cm tall/17cm diameter

3.5 litre round pots 13 cm tall/23 diameter

5 litre square pots 15 cm tall/ 24cmx24cm diameter

Price

Oxygenators

Depth Plant height

 

Hornwort (N)

 


Starwort (N) AN

Spiked water milfoil (N) AN

bare root available

Whorled water milfoil (N)

 

Curly pondweed (N) AN

Free floating

 

 

30-450 cm

30-100 cm

20-100 cm

£4.00 (handful)

 

£2.00 (weighted bunch)

1 litre £6.50

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

 

Eel grass AN

50-100 cm

1 litre £6.50

2 litre £8.50

3 litre £10.50

Mare’s tail (N) 

0-15 cm 25-30 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Dwarf hairgrass (N) AN

Pepper grass (N) AN

Fibre optic plant

Water violet (N) 

Water shamrock

0-60 cm 15-40 cm

0-20 cm 15-40 cm

0-10 cm 20-30 cm

5-80 cm 5-15 cm

0- 25 cm 8-15 cm

9cm £4.50

 

1 litre £6.50

 

Floating aquatics

   

Water soldier (N)

 

 

 

Fogbit (N) AN

Water lettuce (frost tender)

 

 

Free floating

Small - £3.50 AN

Medium - £7.50

X Large - £10.00 AN

 

£4.00 for 6 plants

£3.50 each

Deep water

   

Water Hawthorn AN

 

 

Fringed water lily AN

Brandy bottle AN

10-90 cm 70-90 cm

 

 

10-50 cm 10-50 cm

50-100 cm 80-100 cm

1 litre £12.00  

2 litre £16.00

3 litre £18.00

1 litre £10.00

3 litre £20.00

Marginals

Depth    Plant height

 

Sweet flag (N)  AN

 

Variegated sweet flag AN

 

 

2-15 cm 60-90 cm

 

1-15cm 50-80 cm

1 litre £6.50

 

3 litre £15.00

Water plantain (N)  AN

0-15 cm 60-90 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

2 litre £8.50

Lesser water plaintain (N)  AN

0-5 cm 5-20 cm

1 litre £6.50

Marsh marigold (N)  AN

0-15cm 30-50 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

​Giant king cup AN

0-20 cm 60-100 cm

3 litre £17.00

American water plantain
0-15 cm 60-90 cm

1 litre £6.50

2 litre £8.50

Bog pimpernel (N)

Bog Arum AN

 

Brass buttons

Bog bean (N)  AN

bare root available

0-1 cm 5-10 cm

3-15 cm 15-25 cm

 

0-10 cm 15-20 cm

1 -20 cm 20-30 cm

 

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

 

1 litre £6.50

Bare root £4.00 each

2 litre £10.50

3 litre £15.00

 

Dutch rush (N)  AN

0-15 cm 100-180 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

3 litre £15.00

Cotton grass (N)  AN

0-20 cm 30-50 cm

9cm £4.00

Orange peel plant

0-10 cm 20-60 cm

1 litre £6.50

Iris louisiana ‘Ann Chowning’ AN

0-20 cm 70-90 cm

1 litre £7.00

3 litre £16.00

5 litre £22.00

Iris louisiana ‘Black gamecock’ AN

bare root available

Iris louisiana ‘Her highness’ AN

 

Iris louisiana ‘Dancing vogue’

Not available this season

 

Iris louisiana ‘Waihi wedding’

Not available this season

 

 

 

0-20 cm 80-100 cm

0-15 cm 75-90 cm

 

 

20 cm 90-120 cm

 

 

10cm 90-120 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 litre £7.00

3 litre £16.00

5 litre £22.00

 

 

 

3 litre £16.00

 

 

3 litre £16.00

 

 

 

 

 

Iris pseudacorus ‘Heather stream’

AN

 

Iris pseudacorus 'Flore pleno'

 

0-15 cm 80-100 cm

 

0-20 cm 60-100 cm

1 litre £7.00

 

3 litre £16.00

Iris pseudacorus ‘Alba’ AN

 

0-20 cm 80-100 cm

1 litre £7.00

3 litre £16.00

 

Iris pseudacorus ‘Yellow flag’(N) AN

bare root available

Iris pseudacorus ‘Bastardii’ AN

 

0-20 cm 80-100 cm

Bare root £2.00 each

1 litre £7.00

Iris Sibirica 'Snow Queen'

Iris Versicolor

 

Iris versicolor ‘Kermesina’ AN

 

Iris pseudacorus ‘Variegata’ AN

0 cm 60-90 cm

 

0-15cm 60-90 cm

 

0-15cm 60-90 cm

 

0-15 cm 50-100 cm

 

1 litre £7.00

 

9cm £4.50

 

1 litre £7.00

 

2 litre £6.50

3 litre £16.00

 

 

Corkscrew rush AN

 

Soft rush (N)

Water cress (N) AN

Duck potato

Arrowhead (N)

0-10 cm 25-45 cm

 

0-15 cm 30-60 cm

0-10cm 15-60 cm

2-20 cm 40-100cm

1-20 cm 50-70 cm

 

9 cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

 

9 cm £4.00

1 litre £6.50

9 cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

 

 

 

Creeping jenny (N)

Golden creeping jenny

0-20 cm 10-15 cm

 

0-20 cm 10-15 cm

9cm £4.50

 

White Chinese marshflower

Not available this season

0-5 cm 2-5 cm

1 litre £6.50

Water mint (N)  AN

bare root available

0-20cm              30-60cm

 

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

 

 

Water spearmint

0-5 cm 30-40 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Penny royal (N) 

bare root available

0-5 cm 5-30 cm

9 cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Forget me not (N) 

bare root available

0-20 cm            20-30 cm

9 cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

 

Golden club AN

bare root available

5-30 cm 20-40 cm

9 cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

2 litre £8.50

Lesser spearwort (N)  AN

bare root available

5-10 cm 25-30 cm

1 litre £6.50

Greater spearwort (N)  AN

bare root available

10-30 cm 60-90 cm

9 cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Scarlet lobelia AN

Red leaved lobelia AN

 

0-15 cm 80-100 cm

£4.50

 

Bloodwort (N)  AN

0-15 cm 50-70 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Lizard tail AN

0-20 cm 40-60 cm

£4.50

Zebra rush

5-30 cm 75-100 cm

3 litre £15.00

Greater pond sedge (N)  AN

bare roort available

0-15 cm 40-60 cm

2 litre £8.50

Cyperus sedge (N) AN

0-20 cm 60-90 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Umbrella palm (frost tender)

 

0-5 cm 100-120 cm

2 litre £8.50

Yellow eyed grass AN

0-1 cm 15-30 cm

9 cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Powdery alligator flag

(frost tender)

OUT OF STOCK

0-15 cm 100-250 cm

1 litre £10.00

2 litre £16.00 

Society garlic

0-1 cm 10-50 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Medium reedmace AN

Variegated bulrush

1-30 cm 100-150 cm

1-30 cm 200-240 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

2 litre £8.50

3 litre £15.00

Miniature reedmace AN

1-12 cm 40-60 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

 

Pickerel weed - Blue

White pickerel weed

Giant pickerel weed

5-20 cm 70-90 cm

5-20 cm 50-70 cm

5-20 cm 90-120 cm

1 litre £7.00

3 litre £16.00

 

Veronica beccabunga (trailing) (N)

AN

bare root available

Marsh St John's wort (trailing) (N)

bare root available

 Marsh cinquefoil (N)

bare root available

0-15cm         20-30cm

0-5 cm 20-30 cm

0-10cm 30-50cm

 

9cm £4.50

 

1 litre £6.50

 

1 litre £6.50

Floating water plantain (N)

0-2 cm 1-40 cm

1 litre £6.50

Flowering rush (N) AN

3-25 cm 60-100 cm

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Cuckoo flower (N) AN

 

0-5cm 20-30 cm

9 cm £4.50

Moisture loving

Plant height

Price

Bistort (N) AN

30-80 cm

9cm £4.50

Water avens (N)

30-50 cm

9cm £4.50

Giant prickly rhubarb

150-300 cm

1 litre £15.00

2 litre £21.00

Shuttlecock fern

120-150 cm

2 litre £6.00

Sensitive fern AN

30-60 cm

2 litre £6.00

Royal fern (N)

Lady fern (N)

120-150 cm

45-50 cm

9cm £3.00

9cm £3.00

Blue lobelia

Not available this season

100-120 cm

9cm £4.50

Ragged robin (N) AN

White Ragged robin AN

 

60-100 cm

 

9cm £4.50

 

Giant cowslip

30-60 cm

9cm £4.50

Meadow sweet (N) 

60-90 cm

9cm £4.50

Common camas lily (pot or gravel-based planting)

20-30 cm

1 litre £6.50

White rain lilies (pot or gravel-based planting)

 

Arum lily -

Purple loosestrife AN

bare root available

15-30 cm

 

0-20 cm 60-90 cm

 

1 litre £6.50

 

1 litre £6.50

3 litre £15.00

9cm £4.50

1 litre £6.50

Mixed primulas AN

10-60 cm

9cm £2.00 each

 

Water Lilies

Depth of water      

Spread

Price

Luck dip lilies (red) - bare root AN

50-100cm

60-100 cm

£18.00 each

'Alba' (White blooms with yellow centre) Native AN

'Albatross' (Brilliant white blooms) AN

50-150 cm (large)

40-90 cm (medium)

80-150 cm

60-100cm

3 litre - £23.00

3 litre - £23.00

5 litre - £28.00

'Almost black' (Plum blooms) AN

bare root availble

'Arc-En-Ciel' (White - pink blushed star-like blooms)

Not available this season

30-80 cm (medium)

30-60 cm (medium)

70-90 cm

80-100 cm

3 litre - £23.00

5 litre - £28.00

3 litre - £23.00

'Attraction'(Large deep rose-red blooms) AN

bare root available

40-100 cm (large)

80-120 cm

3 litre - £23.00

5 litre - £28.00

'Charles de Meurville'(Wine coloured blooms) AN

bare root available

40-100 cm (large)

100-150 cm

3 litre - £23.00

'Barbara Dobbins' (yellow/peach blooms) AN

40-90 cm (medium)

70-100 cm

3 litre - £23.00

'Black Princess' (Dark plumb flowers) Premium

 

25-90 cm (medium)

70-80 cm

3 litre -£27.00

5 litre £35.00

'Colorado' (Salmon pink blooms) AN

bare root available

50-100 cm (large)

70-100 cm

3 litre - £23.00

5 litre - £28.00

'Darwin (Hollandia)' (Soft pink double blooms) AN

50-120 cm (large)

100-150 cm

3 litre - £23.00

'Gloire de Temple Sur Lot' (Large light pink blooms with upward of 100 petals) AN

60-90 cm (large)

100-120 cm

3 litre - £23.00

5 litre - £28.00

'Gladstoniana' (Snowy white flowers with golden stamens)

 

50-150 cm (large)

90- 80 cm

3 litre - £23.00

'Gonnere' (Pure white double flowers with golden centres) AN

bare root available

60-90 cm (medium)

75-100 cm

3 litre £25.00

5 litre - £30.00

' James Brydon' (Rich carmine red blooms) AN

30-90 cm (medium)

70-90 cm

3 litre - £23.00

' Joey Tomocik' (Deep lemon blooms) AN

30-90 cm (medium)

5-100 cm

3 litre - £23.00

5 litre - £28.00

‘Lemon mist’(Pale lemon blooms) Not availbale this season

Not available this season

45-90 cm (medium)

70-90 cm

3 litre - £23.00

'Madame Wilfron Gonnere' (Double rose pink flowers) AN

bare root available

30-90 cm (medium)

75-100 cm

3 litre -£23.00

5 litre - £28.00

' Marliacea Albida' (White blooms with golden stamens)

Not available this season

' Marliacea Carnea' (Pale pink blooms) AN

bare root available

30-90 cm (medium)

50-120 cm (large)

75-90 cm

80-120 cm

3 litre - £23.00

' Marliacea Chromatella' (Primrose yellow blooms with golden stamens) AN

30-90 cm (medium)

75-90 cm

3 litre - £23.00

' Mayla' (Fuchsia pink blooms) AN

'Mrs Richmond' (Deep pink blooms)

30-90 cm (medium)

30-100 cm (large)

60-90 cm

80-120 cm

3 litre - £23.00

3 litre - £23.00

'Odorata Firecrest' ( Fragrant light pink blooms) AN

bare root available

'Odorata Sulphurea' ( Sulphur yellow blooms) AN

 

'Perry's baby red' (Deep red blooms) AN

'Liou' (Dark red blooms)

'Xiafei' (petite red blooms and green foliage) AN

 

30-50 cm (medium)

30-90 cm (medium

 

 

30-70 cm (small)

50-70 cm (small)

15-40 cm (small)

 

50-90 cm

80-100cm

 

 

60-80 cm

60-90 cm

30-45cm

 

 

3 litre - £23.00

 

 

1 litre £17.00

2 litre £20.00

'Perry’s Fire Opal' (Deep pink double flowers)

25-60 cm (medium)

30-90 cm

3 litre - £25.00

'Perry’s Orange Sunset' (Rich peach blooms with mottled leaves) Premium

25-60 cm (medium)

30-90 cm

3 litre - £25.00

5 litre - £30.00

10 litre - £45.00

'Pink Peony' (Peony shaped flowers bright to dark pink)

Not availbale this season

40-80 cm (medium)

80-100 cm

3 litre - £25.00

'Rose Arey' (Peony shaped flowers bright to dark pink) AN

30-70 cm (medium)

50-90 cm

3 litre - £23.00

'Snow princess' (Small white blooms) Not available this season

'Pygmaea alba' (Small white blooms)

20-50 cm (dwarf)

20-50 cm (dwarf)

30-50 cm

30-50 cm

2 litre - £20.00

'Virginalis' (Double white blooms) AN

30-100 cm (large)

90-120cm

3 litre - £23.00

Molluscs

     

Planorbis corneus - Ramshorn snails Native AN

Eats algae from the sides of pond.

 

Large - £1.40 or 5 for £6.00

Viviparus viviparous - Trapdoor snails Native

Eats algae from the bottom of pond.

 

Large - £1.40

 

 

 

 

Business hours - 2024

Open again 5th of April.

Friday 10-4

Saturday 10-4

Sunday 10-4

Any other day appointment only.

For all enquiries for plant availability for 2024

Phone 01834831585 or email thewatermargins@msn.com

See News for details.


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