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Rushes and reeds are woven into baskets and mats. Many of these plants are also an important source of cover and food for fish and wildlife. When incorporating emergents into your garden pond, you need to make sure plant heights and growth forms are appropriate for the size of your pond. In most cases, you will have to manually remove some plants during each growing season to insure that one or two species do not overpopulate your pond.
Some Floating Plants
Can Blanket A Pond
Floating leaf plants such as duckweed and water meal may be rooted in • the'bottom muds or be unattached and float freely on the surface. Plants with the smallest and largest leaves are in this group. Wolffia (water meal) has a single, oval-shaped leaf that is less than 1/16-inch in diamter. The lotus (melumbo lutea) has round leaves that exceed 24 inches in diamter. Tiny, floating plants can reproduce rapidly under favorable conditions and blanket a pond with a green scum. Lotuses and waterlilies (floating leaf plants) produce some of the showiest flowers of the plant world. The white water lily (nymphaea odoata) with fragrant white or pink flowers is a favorite ornamental in garden ponds.
Submerged plants (water milfoil, elodea, watercress, wild celery, and pond weed) grow with most of their parts below the water's surface although flowers and seed stalks may, at certain times of the year, extend above the surface to insure pollination
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