It's not too late to place some new plants in your pond. While you should think about bringing your tropicals inside, you could replace them with something hardy from our selection. We've currently got iris, water clover, lilies, bog bean, pickerel rush, mini-cattail, yellow water snowflake, and really almost too many to list, but we'll feature a few of our favorites. Remember that it's optimal to have plants cover 60% of your pond's surface area if you are trying to deter algae.

Water Clover - Marsilea mutica
The foliage on this species resembles a four-leaf clover. This particular variety has reddish-brown stripe that splits the darker green on the top half of the leaflets and the lighter green of the lower half. When the four leaflets are open, the pattern on the individual leaflets come together to create a charming design. It reaches 4 to 12 inches tall, spreads, and will grow in sun or shade. It does best when planted 4 inches to 9 inches below the surface of the water. It also will grow in damp soil.

Bog Bean - Menyanthes trifoliata
This is an excellent plant to "hide" the edges of our pond.  It has established itself by spreading and rooting into the rocks around the pond edge.  It is an early spring flowering plant and is one of the food plants of the elephant hawk moth larvae.

Houtinya - Houtinya cordifolia chamaelion
A tri-colored favorite, this vigorously growing ground-cover marginal water plant produces sprays of white flowers in the summer. The aromatic leaves are splashed yellow, red and green.

Yellow Water Snowflake - Nymphoides geminata
This may be the plant for you if you have a small water garden or a container water garden.  Like tiny water lilies these diminutive plants produce a yellow fimbriated flower which blooms in the morning then closes with the summer heat.

Yellow Water Snowflake