Case 8 - Creation of Pond

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The yellow shingle area allows for bog garden plants to be planted in it. It thus will act as an overflow for the pond and from thence into the lawn alongside it.
Plant Name	Type of Plant	Flower Colour	Leaf Colour	Comments
Azolla caroliniana	Floating aquatic green fern	---	Pale Green	Annuals which are killed off by frost leaving spores for next year growth. Can be invasive. remove portions as required.
Aponogeton distachus	Floating leaved perennial with 1-3 feet length of stems from rhizome to leaf.	White from April to October discontinuing flowering during the height of summer. Sweetly scented.	Bright green 3-6 inches long.	"Water Hawthorn".
Pygmaea helvola
Typha minima	Hardy perennial rhizome	Spherical brown seedheads between June and August	1/14" wide and 20-30" in length dark green	Small "Bulrush".
Elodea canadensis	Hardy, submerged, bottom-rooting Oxygenating plant	---	Thread-like branching dark translucent green	"Water Thyme". Very usefull oxygenating plant.