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Container gardening or pot gardening/farming is the practice of growing plants, including edible plants, exclusively in containers instead of planting them in the ground. [1] A container in gardening is a small, enclosed and usually portable object used for displaying live flowers or plants.
These plants are placed in a pond or container usually 1–2 ft (0.30–0.61 m) below the water surface. Some of these plants act as oxygenators as they create oxygen for any animals which live in a pond. Examples of submerged plants are: Hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum) Water-lilies (Nymphaeaceae) Lotus (Nelumbo spp.) Featherfoil (Hottonia ...
A. distachyos, habit, showing aerial and submerged parts. It is an aquatic plant growing from a tuberous rhizome.The often mottled leaves float on the water surface from a petiole up to 1 m long from the rhizome; the leaf blade is narrow oval, 6–25 cm long and 1.5–7.7 cm broad, with an entire margin and parallel veins.
Pontederia cordata, common name pickerelweed or pickerel weed (), is a monocotyledonous aquatic plant native to the Americas. It grows in a variety of wetlands, including pond and lake margins across an extremely large range from eastern Canada south to Argentina.
N. nouchali is the national flower of Bangladesh. [16] A pale blue-flowered N. nouchali is the national flower of Sri Lanka, where it is known as nil mānel or nil mahanel (නිල් මානෙල්). [17] In Sri Lanka, this plant usually grows in buffalo ponds and natural wetlands.
Potamogeton diversifolius is a species of aquatic plant known by the common names waterthread pondweed and diverse-leaved pondweed.It is native to most of the United States, as well as sections of southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico, where it grows in water bodies such as ponds, lakes, ditches, and slow-moving streams.
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Nuphar polysepala, also known as the great yellow pond-lily, wokas, [3] or wocus, [4] is a perennial, [5] rhizomatous, aquatic [2] herb [6] in the genus Nuphar native to western North America. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It is commonly found in shallow muddy ponds from northern Alaska and Yukon southward to central California and northern New Mexico, and can ...