A great combination of 6 native plants

Bring a piece of Australia's unique flora to your pond with our Native Starter Plant Pack. This collection includes six different native aquatic plants, each with its unique beauty and benefits for your pond ecosystem. From the delicate yellow flowers of the Running Marsh Flower to the vibrant green leaves of the Shield Pennywort, these plants will add a touch of natural beauty to your pond while also providing important habitat for native wildlife.

Improve your pond ecosystem's health and attract native frogs and pollinators to your garden.

Features:

Six different native aquatic plants are included.
Each plant is grown in NSW, Australia and will provide important habitat for native aquatic wildlife.
Easy to care for and maintain
Each plant comes with our unique floating ring, there is no need to submerge the plants as you would do with traditional pond plants.

Swamp Mazus Mazus pumilio

Position - Grows well in any position. Full sun and will tolerate shade.
Flowers - Yes
Submersible - No, prefers shallow water and boggy soil. Performs best when planted into shallow margins of ponds or grown in the pot and floating pond plant ring.
Height - Will reach around 15cm when mature.
Cover – An excellent groundcover pond plant best suited to the margins of a pond

Shield Pennywort Hydrocotyle verticillata

Position - Full sun to part shade
Flowers - No
Submersible - To a depth of 10cm
Foliage - Produced above the water line
Grows - creeping ground cover
Cover – for frogs fish and fry when grown submersed

Brahmi Bacopa Monnieri

Position - Part shade (shade-tolerant) to full sun
Flowers - Small white flowers
Submersible - To a depth of 20cm
Foliage - Can produce foliage both above and below water level

Running Marsh Flower Villarsia reniformis

Position - Part shade (shade-tolerant) to full sun
Flowers - Yellow flowers on stems to 50cm
Submersible - to a depth of 40cm.
Foliage - Shiny bright green lily-type leaves

Hairy Nardoo Marsilea Drummondii

Perennial
Position - Full sun to part shade
Flowers - No
Edible - Yes, node or bulb
Submersible - Yes to a depth of 30cm
Foliage - Produces furry four-leaved foliage that floats on the surface of the water
Origin - Native to Australia
Cover - Great surface cover for fish
Oxygenator - No
Size - 30cm diameter

Nardoo Marsilea Angustifolia

Perennial
Position - Full sun to part shade
Flowers - No
Submersible - Yes to a depth of 30cm
Foliage - Produces foliage that floats on the surface of the water
Origin - Native to Australia
Cover - Great surface cover for fish
Oxygenator - No
Size - 30cm diameter

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