If you're looking for an exciting specimen for your pond, this fern is truly a dramatic feature that is big and bold!  It has large pinnate fronds of bright green. And it makes a spectacular houseplant in the winter.

Striking narrow coppery-maroon leaves form a 4-10" mat with tiny white flowers. Ideal for contrast; does best in wet spots or shallow water.

HT 12", DP 0-2" Sun /Shade

Flowers of orange and yellow all summer on this species native to Mexico and South America.  Save seeds over the winter to re-plant in spring, or bring in before frost.

Small leaved spreading variety for shallow water or as a submerged plant.  Bright blue flowers all summer.  Crushed leaves have a lemon aroma.

HT 6", DP 0-12"  Sun/Part Shade Z9

A creeping surface spreading hyssop with small light green leaves and ever-blooming white flowers.  It can grow as a submerged aquatic plant.

Deep red wide leaves with red blooms. Minimum temperature 50ºF.

HT 48-60", DP 0-6" Sun/Part Shade  Z8

Variegated Canna - (Canna americanallis variegata 'Bengal Tiger')

Large showy green and creamy yellow foliage with bright yellow-orange blooms. Minimum temperature 50ºF.

HT 48", DP 0-6" Sun  Z8

Very dark red variegation over green leaves with red flowers.

HT 48-60", DP 0-6"  Sun Z8

Green foliage with bicolored blooms of yellow and orange.

HT 36", DP 0-3  Sun  Z8

Variegated foliage of peach, yellow, and green. Orange flowers.

Orange blooms over dark bronze foliage. 

HT 48-60", DP 0-6"

Imperial Taro  (Colocasia esculenta 'Illustris')

Bold, shade-loving variety has green leaves with overlaid with black design.

HT 36-48", DP 0-4" Part Shade/Shade Z9

$9.95

Green Taro (Colocasia esculenta)

Large ornamental velvety leaves which have the appearance of elephant ears, grey-green in color and 2 to 3 feet in size.

HT 48-72", DP 0-6" Sun/Part Shade  Z8

$9.95

Velvety dark burgundy ears, smaller than the species but producing more leaves.  The more shade, the darker the color. 

HT 36-48", DP 0-4"  Sun/Part Shade  Z9

Large velvety leaves of purple smoke with flecks of black and burgundy.

Violet Stem Taro (Colocasia esculenta ‘Fontanesii)

Many deep blue-green elephantine leaves with deep violet stems. Their velvety texture sheds water easily.

HT 36-48", DP 0-4" Sun/Part Shade Z9

$9.95

Large splashed leaves of light green on dark blue-green makes this shorter variety a real a very dramatic plant for smaller water features.  Does best in a shadier spot.

Large blue-green leaves with striking bright red stems.

Bog Lily (Crinium americanum)

Funnel-shaped, pure white, lily-scented blooms with greenish throats rise in clusters over tufts of strap-like leaves. Each long, dark green stalk produces only a few flowers, but beautiful!

HT 12-36", DP 0-2" Sun/Part Shade  Z7-11

$7.50

This variety produces amaryllis-like flower blooms that are white with red stripes.

A much thicker leaved variety with a peach-colored amaryllis-like flower.

Umbrella Palm  (Cyperus alternifolius)

This tall, lush green plant sports a top sprout of narrow leaves, spreading 12" or so, creating an umbrella shape.  Mature tops produce a spray of brown seeds.

HT 36-60", DP 0-6" Sun or Shade  Z8-11

$7.50

Dwarf Umbrella Palm  (Cyperus alternifolius 'Gracilis')

Very fine dark green stems and spikelets makes this variety ideal for small ponds and containers.

HT 18-24", DP 0-3" Sun or Shade  Z8-11

$7.50

Rare and extremely exciting variety with bold variegations on both the stems and leaves. This variety needs to have green stems pruned out so that it does not revert. 

HT 30-36", DP 0-6"  Sun or Shade Z8-11

Dwarf Papyrus (Cyperus haspan)

Plant produces dainty tufts of foliage atop thin stems. Mature stalks send out spindle-like green rays tipped by green seed pods that turn brown.

HT 12-24", DP 0-4" Sun Z8-11

$11.95

Giant Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus)

Stately reed paper plant with strong, dark green stems and crowned by brush-like umbels of pendulous thread-like leaves. Dramatic winter houseplant. Lift before temperature drops to 50ºF.

HT 96-120", DP 0-6" Sun Z8-11

$11.95

Unlike the more common dwarf variety, this papyrus has the large brush-like heads of the giant species but remains small.

Radican Sword (Echinodorus cordifolius)

Heart-shaped dark green leaves with prominent parallel veins. Long trailing stems have white flower clusters of sagittaria-like blooms appear July to Sept.

HT 24-36", DP 1-3" Sun/Part Shade Z7-11

Thin, tubular, reed-like stems.  Produces a tuber or chestnut used in Asian cooking. Has been hardy to zone 6.

HT 24-36", DP 2-6"  Sun/Part Shade  Z7-8

Dark green sword-shaped leaves form a dense, bushy, aromatic plant.  Flowers are white--but infrequent. Can easily be over-wintered as an attractive houseplant.

HT 24-36", DP 0-2"  Shade  Z11

Green leafy plant which produces white ball-shaped flowers with a baby powder-like fragrance that attracts Monarch butterflies like a magnet. Can be grown as a submerged plant but is more striking as a marginal.

Produces iridescent lobed maroon leaves on woody stalks. Solitary, small lavender blooms in late summer. 

Water Poppy (Hydrocleys nymphoides)  Bare root

Oval green leaves along water’s surface produce three petaled 2" showy yellow blossoms centered by brown stamens. Abundance of flowers all summer. Needs a water temperature of 70ºF+ to overwinter indoors.

HT 3", DP 2-4" Sun

$7.50

Dark green mint-like leaves with tiny lavender flowers at the leaf joints.  Also used as a submerged plant.

Thick green amaryllis-like leaves form clumps.  Summer white flowers of 7" wide have 6 lobes with a cup at the center resemble white spiders.  Fragrant lilies that are native to the South.

A coveted variety of water plant because of the unique way the petals of red and green for a floating mosaic design.  Not easy to grow as fish and snails can do damage to its delicate stems.  Calm water is best.

Water Snowflake (Nymphoides aquatica)

Green lily-like leaves floating and five petaled white flowers with yellow centers, sending erect shoots out that resemble small banana bunches.

HT 2-3", DP 3-5" Sun

$7.50

White Fringe (Nymphoides indica)

Small heart-shaped green and brown patterned leaves freely produces white fringed dainty flowers, with yellow centers, above the water.

HT 0-2", DP 3-6" Sun

$7.50

Florida Bluebells (Ruellia brittoniana)

Light-blue, bell-shaped flowers top brownish stalks. Green narrow willow-like leaves grow from center stems. Frequent pinching causes the plant to grow bushier.

HT 24-48", DP 0-6" Sun  Z9-11

$7.50

Narrow, lance-shaped leaves form bushy plants that flower all summer. Purple-blue blooms are about 1.5" in size.

HT 10-12", DP 0-3"  Sun  Z9-11

Same as above but with pink bell- shaped flowers

HT 24-48", DP 0-6"  Sun  Z9-11

Lance Lily (Sagittaria lancifolia)

Long stalks with long narrow spear-shaped leaves and clusters of small white flowers.

HT 36-48", DP 3-5" Sun/Part Shade  Z8-11

$7.50

Deeply veined arrow leaves surround abundant unusual white flowers that have a burgundy blotch of each petal.

Ht 24", DP 0-5"  Sun/Part Shade  Z8-11

Miniature Arrowheads  (Sagittaria subulata)

Bright green foliage with arrow shaped leaves and tiny white flowers. Much daintier than the other sagittarias.

HT 9-12", DP 0-2" Sun/Part Shade  Z8-11

$7.50

Alligator Flag (Thalia geniculata)

Oval, pointed blue-green leaves with violet blossoms on tall spikes.

HT 72-120", DP 0-6" Sun  Z9-11

$7.50

Red Stem Alligator Flag (Thalia geniculata f. ruminoides)

Dramatic oval pointed leaves with reddish-purple foliage stems topped by blossoms of violet reminiscent of the hardy variety.

HT 72-120", DP 0-6" Sun/Part Shade  Z9-11

$7.50

Tufts of creamy, variegated, thin leaves that are extremely aromatic when cut.  All summer pink flowers appear on tall stems.

A demure plant is this mat-forming, trailing violet with a white, spur-less flower and patches of violet.  An easy houseplant in winter.

Crisp green trailing foliage with bright yellow flowers all summer.  Ideal for accenting waterfalls.  Can trail 3 ft or more!

Impressive variety which produces extra large white spathes and shiny green heart-shaped leaves.

 HT 36-48", DP 0-2"  Sun/Part Sun Z7

Zephyr Lily (Zephyrantes candida)

Thick tufts of dark green, grass foliage that resemble chives. Produces abundant summer flowers that are white, almost daisy like.

HT 12", DP 0-2" Sun/Shade  Z8

A more delicate variety with small yellow flowers and a narrower leaf blades.

Outstanding blooms on this variety with larger bright pink flowers. Narrow strap-like dark green foliage.