Info & Care Sheets

• Water Gardening with Native Plants

  Landscaping with native plants continues to gain popularity with Minnesotan gardeners not only because of their hardiness, but also their adaptability. The same holds true when using native plants for water gardening.

  There are many native plants available that provide a wide range of benefits to the water garden. Besides being environmentally beneficial, native plants reduce maintenance time and costs because they are well suited for the location.

  At Linder’s, we carry a variety of water plants native to the Midwest during the growing season. Below is a listing of native water plants that Linder’s carries and examples their attributes:

   

  Midwest Native Plants:

  Anachris	Duckweed	Marsh Marigold
  Arrow Arum	Gray’s Sedge	Monkey Flower
  Arrowhead, White Flowered	Hornwort	Pickerel Rush
  Azolla	Horsetail	Rosy Bistort
  Blue Flag Iris	Joe Pye Weed	Rush-Blunt
  Bog Bean	Lizards Tail	Swamp Hibiscus
  Bottle Gentian	Lotus-Lutea	Swamp Milkweed
  Cardinal Flower	Mares Tail	Vallisneria
  Cattails	Marsh Betony	Water (Calla) Arum
  Cotton Grass	Marsh Fern	White Water Lily

  Attributes:

  Accent Plants:	Oxygenators:	Floating Plants:
  Arrow Arum	Anachris	Azolla
  Arrowhead, White Flowered	Hornwort	Duckweed
  Blue Flag Iris	Mares Tail
  Cardinal Flower	Vallisneria
  Joe Pye Weed
  Pickerel Rush	Fast Growing Plants:	Surface Covering Plants:
  Swamp Hibiscus	Bogbean	Azolla
  Swamp Milkweed	Cattail	Bogbean
  		Duckweed
  		Lotus - Lutea
  		White Water Lily
  Edge Covering:	Shade Tolerant:	Flowering Plants:
  Bottle Gentian	Arrow Arum	Arrowhead, White Flowered
  Horsetail (Scouring Rush)	Arrowhead (White Flowered)	Blue Flag Iris
  Marsh Fern	Blue Flag Iris	Bottle Gentian
  Marsh Marigold	Cardinal Flower	Cardinal Flower
  Monkey Flower	Horsetail (Scouring Rush)	Joe Pye Weed
  Water (Calla) Arum	Marsh Betony	Lotus-Lutea
  	Marsh Marigold	Marsh Betony
  	Horsetail	Marsh Marigold
  	Lizards Tai	Monkey Flower
  		Pickerel Rush
  		Swamp Hibiscus
  		Swamp Milkweed
  		Water (Calla) Arum
  		White Water Lily

  
  
  

   

  Posted on August 13, 2012

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