Strong Vertical Plants For Large Ponds!

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Strong Vertical Plants For Large Ponds!

Strong verticals create a background for flowering varieties. These pond plants are not usually flashy or colorful but they have intricately unusual flowers that add interest and texture.

Best to plant these individually in large containers so that they can fill out to provide a dense, green or variegated foliage backdrop. The more tender varieties, often referred to as tropicals, are hardy in Zones 8 through 11.

For this reason these plants are sometimes are over looked in cooler climates which is unfortunate because many have striking foliage and blossoms that will add a dramatic accent to any pond or water garden.

In areas colder than Zone 8, tropicals can be used as houseplants in the winter with adequate light and moist soil.

Arundo donax ‘Variegata’
(Variegated Mediterranean Reed)

Grow 5’ to 10’
Flowers September, October
Zone 7

An abundance of creamy-white variegated foliage.

Best suited to a large container as a specimen plant.

Cyperus alternifolius
(Umbrella Palm)

Grow to 5’
Zone 8.

An all time favorite featuring umbrella-like foliage above stiff stems.

Easy to winter indoors.

Takes some shade.

Great for natural filters, it strives in moving water.

Scirpus lacutris spp. taber. ‘Albescens’
(White Bulrush)

Grow 4’ to 5’

Tall white needle-like foliage is gently marked with green vertical pinstripes.

Recommended not to fertilize to prevent green foliage.

Scirpus lacutris spp. taber. ‘Zebrinus’
(Zebra Rush)

Grow to 4’

Bold green and white-banded foliage make this plant truly unique.

Variegation may fade as summer progresses. Popular favorite.

Spatina pectinata ‘Aureo-marginata’
(Variegated Prairie Cordgrass)

Grow 4’ to 5’
Flowers August

A thin line of golden-yellow margins slender green leaves.

Wheat colored plumes.

Excellent fall color.

Typha-angustifolia
(Narrow-Leaf Cattail)

Grow to 6’
Flowers May, June

Narrow dark blue-green leaves.

Tolerates brackish water.

Perfect tall background for broad-leaved foliage plants.

Typha latifolia ‘Variegata’
(Variegated Cattail)

Grow to 5’
Flowers June, July

Striking green and cream variegated foliage.

Tolerates some shade.

Great specimen plant and real eye catcher.

Zizania latifolia
(Perennial Rice)

Grow to 4’
Flowers August

Thick masses of broad bladed grass-like leaves.

Known for its beautiful display of rustling yellow foliage in the fall.

The miscanthus of the water garden

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