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Container garden on front porch. 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 ...
Nuphar is a genus of aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae, with a temperate to subarctic Northern Hemisphere distribution. Common names include water-lily (Eurasian species; shared with many other genera in the same family), pond-lily, alligator-bonnet or bonnet lily, and spatterdock (North American species).
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The plant flowers in late summer. The purple flowers have yellow markings which may assist in attracting bees for pollination. [11] Two species known to pollinate the flowers are Melissodes apicatus and Dufourea novaeangliae. [12] [13] Once the plant begins to produce seeds, the stem supporting the inflorescence bends to submerge the fruits and ...
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 ...
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.
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