Ornamental Horticulture

(B) WATER PLANTS

Water gardens are becoming one of the most popular landscape projects. They can be designed to fit virtually any existing landscape. A water garden is a place for recreation. All theme parks are based on water garden only.
Plants for water gardening
Aquatic plants are basically of four types as detailed below.

1. Deep water plants
2. Bog plants (marginals)
3. Oxygenators
4. Floating plants
Deep water plants:

Water lilies - Nymphaea spp.
Lotus - Nelumbo spp.
Spatterdock - Nuphar luteum


Floating plants:

Azolla - Azolla spp.
Duckweed - Lemna spp.
Water-meal - Wolffia spp.
Water Ferns - Salvinia minima
Water Hyacinth - Eichhornia crassipes
Water Lettuce - Pistia stratiotes


Submerged plants or oxygenators:

Anacharis - Elodea canadensis
Cabomba - Cabomba caroliniana
Dwarf sagittaria - Sagittaria natans
Vallisneria - Vallisneria americana
Water milfoil - Myriophyllus spp.