 Healthy plants in your Koi pond or water garden, makes for a healthy eco-system. We have the essentials for good plant care and maintenance. From plant food to protective planting baskets, you'll be able to set your plants with ease.
A bit about Aquatic Plants
Aquatic plants — also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes — are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments. Because living on or under the water surface requires numerous special adaptations, aquatic plants can only grow in water or permanently saturated soil.
Aquatic vascular plants can be ferns or angiosperms (from both monocot and dicot families). Seaweeds are not vascular plants but multicellular marine algae, and therefore not typically included in the category, "aquatic plants." As opposed to plants types such as mesophytes and xerophytes, hydrophytes do not have a problem in retaining water due to the abundance of water in its environment. This means the plant has less need to regulate transpiration.
Many fish keepers and aquarium hobbyists keep aquatic plants in their tanks to oxygenate the water for their fish.
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