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- Floating Pond Plants -
Parrots Feather, Red Stemmed Parrots Feather, Sensitive
Plant, Water Hyacinth, Water Lettuce.
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Floating pond plants - These
are the most desirable addition to the watergarden as they provide
surface cover, shade the pond water and provide a place for fish
to escape the mid-day sun.
Floating plants use nutrients from
the water competing with algae to help keep the pond clear. They
don't require planting because their roots actually feed directly
from the water! They do this at such a fast rate that it is
not unusual for them to cover the surface of the water in as little
as a few weeks time. It is this rapid growth and removing
undesirable ammonia and nitrates from the water that makes them
so important in keeping a healthy, clean and clear water garden.
*If you have Koi it may be
a challenge to keep the plant growth as fast as the destruction
of them by your Koi. Koi will nibble on some varieties and consider
them tasty snacks between feedings. Time will tell if you have
enough plants to start with.
How to plant Floating Pond Plants:
Just place on top of the pond water with the exception of the Parrot's
Feather and Red Stemmed Parrot's Feather which need to be weighted
with a light rubber band around the stems and a fishing sinker clipped
to it. The plants will spread out across the surface of the pond.
For great water quality
you should have 40-50% of your pond's surface planted.
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Say the pond graphic above
is 8' x 10' which is 80 sq'. Since we want 1/2 planted,
that equals 80/2 or 40 sq'. We know that we need about 1
to 2 plants per sq' that we want to cover. That is 40 sq'
divided by 2 which is 20. So then, 20 is the magic number
for how many plants (bunches) we need. 1 bunch equals a
big handful with floating and submerged plant orders.
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The shortcut to all of this is to divide
your total surface area in square feet by 4.
So, if your pond is 8' x 10' it is 80 sq' and
80/4 = 20 Plants (Bunches)
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Quick Guide to
Order Right Amount of Floaters or Submerged Plants |
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Your Pond Size |
1 Plant = 1 Bunch |
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Width' |
Length' |
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Your Ponds Total Square
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40 |
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10 bunches |
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10 |
80 |
80/4 = |
20 bunches |
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10 |
10 |
100 |
100/4 = |
25 bunches |
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16 |
160 |
160/4 = |
40 bunches |
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12 |
20 |
240 |
240/4 = |
60 bunches |
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100+ Floating Oxygenator Plants?
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Jumbo Water Hyacinth
NASA
- Over 30 years ago, NASA saw tremendous potential for water
hyacinth to purify water on long space voyages and launched
studies on the plant. As a result of these studies they
found that this plant could save millions of dollars by
being used in waste treatment facilities to purify water.
This attests to the awesome power of the water hyacinth
root system to absorb impurities. Today the water hyacinth
is used in many cities wastewater plants and is planned
for more. Disneyworld cleans all of their waste water with
them! Imagine what they can do for your pond.
CAUTION
- Water hyacinth
is an extremely invasive plant if released into the natural
environment. PLEASE make sure you restrict them to your
own private applications and insure that you dispose of
extra plants carefully.
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JUMBO Blue Shell Water Hyacinth - Just take them out of the box and float on the top of your pond water in a shaded area at first. Then move them to sun. The water hyacinth feeds off of the nutrients in the water. If you want 1 whole box (about 25 plants) we will discount your order by 15% if you live east of the Mississippi and 10% if you live west of the Mississippi.
 *As most of you experienced water gardener's know, you NEED to keep them shaded at first to keep the plants from getting burnt before the root system starts pumping new fluids to the leaves. Being dormant during shipping dries the root system out. If you burn them from full sun on the first day they will be stunted and not grow. But once the root system starts pumping you can put them anywhere you wish. This is especially important for water lettuce and hyacinth. ** New pond installations need to have nutrients in the water for floating plants to survive. If your pond is brand new and doesn't have any nutrients you will need to add some water soluble fertilizer until the natural ecology of the pond starts to produce waste.
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Koi Warning
- Koi love to nibble on water hyacinth and other floating plants.
The dense mat of root tips serves to protect baby koi. Some of our
customers get 2 or 3 boxes (25 Jumbos) a year
just to keep their Koi happy. You can make a holding pen like the
picture above to grow the hyacinth and once a month pull the root
masses apart and throw some of the plants into the main pond with
the koi. The pen will have new growth in the warm months and will
self propagate.
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Regular Size Water Hyacinth
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Water Hyacinth (Eichornia
crassipes) Also Known as "Blue Shell" A beautiful plant for
the water garden. It has a purple flower and is a prolific grower
and helps keep pond water clear. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom.
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Water Lettuce
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Water Lettuce (Pistia stratioes)
This is also called shellflower. The plant has pale green leaves
and is a fast grower. In Northern climates winter over inside. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom.
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Frogbit
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| Frogbit (Limnobium spongia) Heart-shaped clusters of leaves float on the surface. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom.
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Water Lettuce Rosette
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Water Lettuce Rosettes (Pistia sp.) These are small water lettuce buds. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom.
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Red Stemmed Parrots Feather
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| Red Stemmed Parrot's Feather (Myriophyllum) Dwarf variety of Parrot's Feather has brilliant red stems. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom.
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Parrots Feather
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| Parrot’s Feather (Myriophyllum aquatica) This feathery lime-green plant is beautiful to look at. A very quick grower. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom.
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How much is a "Bunch?"
A bunch is standard terminology for
some floating plants.
1 bunch spreads out on water about
the size of a small plate.
In
the case of Parrots Feather, one bunch is reasonable handful. Imagine
a nursery worker grabbing a handful and that is 1 bunch. In the
case of other floating plants, a bunch could be 1 plant with several
shoots that lay on the water the size of a small plate.
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Sensitive Plant
Click Picture for Larger View | Sensitive Plant (Neptunia aquatica) The fern-like leaves close when touched. Plant floats on the water’s surface. It has yellow flowers. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom.
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Large Leaf Sensitive Plant
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Large Leaf Sensitive
Plant (Aeschynomene fluitans) Easy to grow. Plant floats on the
water’s surface. It has yellow flowers. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom.
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Floating Plant Sampler Package
| 12 Plants - Most varieties on this page. Do a test this year and see which type works best in your part of the country. *Check the "USDA Noxious Plants website" at page bottom. **If we run out of stock of a plant in the sampler, we will substitute a plant of similar value.
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One of our customer's sensitive plants.
Click Here to see his pond.
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RESTRICTED PLANTS:
Some states have bans on certain pond plants. Check the
USDA Noxious Plants website
prior to purchase. The buyer needs to beware of any regulations
on plants that may be restricted. If your order gets confiscated
by your state agriculture department we cannot be held responsible.
CLIMATE VARIATIONS:
We guarantee our plants will arrive alive and healthy. Pond Plants
grow differently depending on where you live. If you took pond plants
of the same type, and planted them in different parts of the USA,
each plant would grow differently. This is Mother Nature at work.
We cannot guarantee that your climate will support long term growth
as this varies by location. With experience you will find which
pond plants thrive in your
USDA Zone. Join our
Pond, Watergarden
and Plant Forum and ask some questions before you buy
is the best advice we can give you.
SUBSTITUTIONS: We
reserve the right to substitute similar plants of equal or greater
value unless you specifically request otherwise in the remarks section
of your order. This happens almost never though, and if it does
happen it is usually in regard to floating and submerged oxygenation
plants.
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