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Plants For your water Garden
There are hundreds of varieties of plants that you could include in you water garden. To popular and easy to grow types are water lilies and lotuses. Both are flowering and add beauty to your garden. There are two types of water plants: aquatics and marginals. Aquatics are those grown towards the center of the pond in deeper water and can be submerged. Marginals like to grow in the shallow edges of the pond and should not be submerged. Both add to the attractiveness of the water garden. To decide which varieties to include you must consider your climate and whether or not you want it to be an annual or perennial garden. Then you must do research on your temperate zone and on the plants suitable for your climate. No matter where you live there are sure to be plants for you.
Here are some sources to check out when deciding in your plants:
Woy, Joann. "Planting and stocking the water garden." Country Journal 24.3 (1997): 42. EBSCO MegaFILE. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.
Woy, Joann. "Getting started: Creating your water garden." Country Journal 24.3 (1997): 34. EBSCO MegaFILE. EBSCO. Web. 12 Oct. 2010.