Aquatics and Bog Plants

The following list of aquatics and bog plants suitable for water and bog gardens will doubtless be of assistance to those who are in any difficulty as to selection:

Plants for Water Margins

The following are mostly of noble growth, and are chiefly valuable for their fine foliage:

                    Gunnera scabra                                   

                    Heracleum giganteum

                    G.manicata                                         

                    H.mantegazzianum

                    Rheum emodi                                       

                    Arundo donax

                    R.palmatum                                         

                    Gynerium argenteum

                    Carex pendula                                     

                    Equisetum telmateia 

                    Osmunda regalis  

                    Bamboos

Flowering plants for massing by the waterside:­

                    Iris kaempferi    

                    S.palmata 

                    Lythrum salicaria                                  

                    Lysimachia vulgaris

                    I.sibirica                                            

                    Bupthalmum speciosum 

                    Spiraea gigantea                                 

                    Thalictrum acquilegifolium

                    S.astilboides                                      

                    Senecio japonicus

                    S.lindleyana                                      

                    Polygonum sachalinense

                    Petasites vulgaris                                  

If larger grouping is needed near the waterside, some of the moisture-loving shrubs will probably be useful. The following do well :­

                    Halesia tetraptera                                

                    Dogwoods

                    Cydonia vulgaris                                 

                    Viburnum opulus

                    Rhododendrons

Aquatics

Plants which are suitable for pond and stream margins, the roots being under water. These include flowering sedges, rushes and reeds :­

                    Butomus umbellatus                           

                    Typha latifolia

                    Acorus calamus                                 

                    T.angustifolia

                    Scirpus lacustris

                    Iris pseudo-acorus                               

                    Rumex hydrolapathum

                    Alisma plantago

                    Phragmites communis

                    Menyanthes trifoliata

                    Richardia aethiopica

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