Pond Plant: Myosotis scorpioides - water forget-me-not

Pond Plant: Myosotis scorpioides - water forget-me-notWater Forget me not (Myosotis scorpioides) Water forget me not is a delicate perennial unlike garden forget me nots, which are biennial. It grows to around 30cm and is reliable in wet soils or water up to around 10cm. Myosotis scorpioides is an excellent plant for wildlife; it provides shelter for aquatic larvae and newts lay their eggs in its leaves as it can form a floating raft. Its attractive flowers will attract bees, hoverflies and butterflies

and throughout high summer a range of pollinators love its succession of frothy white flowers

and like other mints its leaves can be eaten

Marsh-marigold (Caltha palustris)

Purple loosestrife is one of those plants people don't recognise as native because it looks so showy

This wet meadow seed mix contains a relatively wide range of native British wildflowers and grasses for wet and damp situations in full sun

Soft rush (Juncus effusus)/Hard rush (Juncus inflexus)/Articulated rush (Juncus articulatus)

0 Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus Pratensis

and grows up to 1m tall

Pond Edge Seed Mix

Brooklime (Veronica beccabunga)

It grows in nearly all still water

The coir fibre degrades slowly