Aquatics

[Michael]

Hi!

I dont know if i am doing this right to ask here, but i am wondering if any of you have water features integrated to your rock garden...
Because I am starting to plan my own little pond, but there are some aquatic species that i would like have, but dont know where to find them like the brandy bottle (Nuphar), the water soldier (Stratiotes), water chestnut (Trapa), the water club (Orontium), the water hawthorn (Aponogeton), and finally the water finge (Nymphoides).
Any ideas?
Thanks

Michael

[Lesley Cox]

Hello Michael,

Not aquatics but I wonder if you would be interested in some cuttings of Tecomanthe speciosa? If so, I think I can get some for you.

Lesley

[Michael]

Hi Lesley!
Yes i would like to grow it!
I will PM you.

[Anthony Darby]

Most garden centres will have the above plants in their aquatic departments.

[David Nicholson]

..... except that Mike doesn't have the same access to garden centres that we have where he lives!

[Michael]

Yes David, unfortunately it's true, here even in high quality stores, you wont find anything beyond the water hyacinth, water lettuce or the famous Elodea. I have searched several times and nothing...

[Anthony Darby]

..... except that Mike doesn't have the same access to garden centres that we have where he lives!

....and that is where excactly? He doesn't say.

[Joakim B]

ADarby he has previously said it it is on Maderira and I agree with him about the very bad asortments there is in Portuguese garden centers so I presume being on an island would not improve that situation.
I have not seen much ponds in portugal it is more fountains made of stones with a small basket of iris and maybe water-lilies. The only exception is a pond in the Botanical garden in Ajuda, Lisbon.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Michael]

Sorry adarby, i will write my location  in my signature!

Joakim, if you knew what i have been through to find a simple waterlily... I found them at a very old farm, and the lady was kind enough to give me a small rhizome, she said that she brough it from England several years ago. Now, if you cant find waterlily plants at stores here, imagine the others i posted, that (aparently) are a lot more difficult to find...

[Joakim B]

Mike I have only seen waterlilies in the botanical gardens here in Lisbon. I have not seen them in shops. I was just illustrating that there is not much of pond culture in Portugal. I hope we will see pictures of Your water garden.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Anthony Darby]

This firm sells aquatic plants and delivers to Portugal.
http://www.gardens4you.co.uk/index.php?/Waterplants/View-all-products.html
http://www.gardens4you.co.uk/index.php?/Shipping-and-Handling/Shipping-and-Handling/

Anthony.

[GordonT]

I would like to revive this topic, as I suspect I am not the sole person here with a pond, or ponds. Last year was the first flowering for me of the Siberian Lotus, Nelumbo nucifera komarovii. It was grown from seed, and suffered for a year, or two constrained in a large pot, which was sunk in one of our ponds. It produced a single bloom in 2017, and now has three buds in various stages of development. One thing I wonder however, is if there is a white form of komarovii in cultivation anywhere? I'd love to track down some seed if it exists.

None of the buds this year are open yet, hopefully one will be out when a local garden club arrives on August 1st for a tour. In the meantime, this photo was taken last year.