Floating Pond Plants

Floating Pond Plants or Water Garden Plants are annuals or tropical plants. They have no way of producing a dormant state for winter months. Floating plants require the most maintenance through the summer months. Beginning water gardeners assume they are easy to grow and therefore don't often try the more manageable potted plants.

When it is cold floating pond plants rot or perish. When it is warm these fast growing plants do filter the water but often reproduce so quickly they can cover a pond depleting oxygen levels.

This leads to constant maintenance and removal from the pond to ensure safe oxygen levels. Many of floating water garden plants are now restricted in both southern and northern states as illegal plants.