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 |
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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
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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
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Floating aquatics |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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0-20 cm 80-100 cm 0-15 cm 75-90 cm
20 cm 90-120 cm
10cm 90-120 cm
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1 litre £7.00 3 litre £16.00 5 litre £22.00
3 litre £16.00
3 litre £16.00
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Iris pseudacorus ‘Heather stream’ AN
Iris pseudacorus 'Flore pleno'
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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
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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
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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
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Creeping jenny (N) Golden creeping jenny |
0-20 cm 10-15 cm
0-20 cm 10-15 cm |
9cm £4.50
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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30-50 cm (medium) 30-90 cm (medium
30-70 cm (small) 50-70 cm (small) 15-40 cm (small)
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50-90 cm 80-100cm
60-80 cm 60-90 cm 30-45cm
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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 |
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Planorbis corneus - Ramshorn snails Native AN |
Eats algae from the sides of pond. |
Large - £1.40 or 5 for £6.00 |
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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.