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1. Acorus (Sweet Flag)
Acorus calamus is a large Iris-like plant whose strap-shaped leaves give off a tangerine scent when crushed. The small horn-like flower heads are insignificant.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/acorus.php

2. Adder's Tongue Family
Plants more or less fern-like consisting of a stem with a single leaf. In Ophioglossum the leaf or sterile segment is entire, the veins reticulated and the sporangia in a simple spike.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/adder.php

3. Alisma (Water Plantain)
Alisma plantago-aquatica is a native UK species of water plantain. The leaves are broad and deeply ribbed. Pale pink flowers are borne in whorls on stalks reaching 60-90cm in height.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/alisma.php

4. Aponogeton (Water hawthorn)
Water hawthorn a South African native that has naturalized in milder parts of th UK.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/aponogeton.php

5. Aruncus (Goat's Beard)
Aruncus is a hardy perennial with fern-like foliage and plumes of creamy-white flowers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/aruncus.php

6. Astilbe
Astilbe is one of the best known bog garden plants. The deeply cut fern-like foliage is tinted with bronze in spring.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/astilbe.php

7. Azolla (Fairy Moss)
Azolla is a tiny aquatic fern with fronds measuring about 1cm. The fronds may turn red in summer. It spreads rapidly and will easily cover the entire surface of a pond with a dense green mat. Although the plant will survive the average winter, much of the growth will be cut back by ice and frost.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/azolla.php

8. Bog Plants
Pictorial index of bog plants.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/

9. Butomus (Flowering Rush)
The flowering rush is native to Asia where its rhizomes are used to make flour. Butomus looks best planted in groups of five or more plants. Umbrellas of pink flowers in summer.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/butomus.php

10. Calla (Bog arum)
Calla palustris is a creeping native UK plant that is excellent for hiding the edges of an artificial pond. The heart-shaped leaves are 6–12cm long on 10–20cm petioles.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/calla.php

11. Caltha palustris (Kingcup)
Caltha has waxy dark green, kidney-shaped leaves and buttercup-like yellow flowers. Native to the UK. Caltha prefers acid or neutral soils. It grows best in full sun or light shade.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/caltha.php

12. Cardamine (Cuckoo flower)
Cardamine is a UK native wildflower that does well in the bog garden. It has pale green fern-like foliage and clusters of lilac-pink flowers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/cardamine.php

13. Carex (Sedge)
Carex pseudocyparus has drooping spikes of catkin-like flowers in the summer and is best suited to a large pond.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/carex.php

14. Check List Of The Ferns Of Northeastern America
In the following list the first name is usually the one adopted in the text, and those that follow are synonyms.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/checklist.php

15. Classification of Ferns
In this manual our native ferns are grouped scientifically under five distinct families.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/classification.php

16. Cliff Brakes (Pellàea)
Sporangia borne on the upper part of the free veins inside the margins, in dot-like masses, but may run together, as in the continuous fruiting line of the bracken.
http://ww.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/cliff.php

17. Common Grape Fern
Rootstock short, its base including the buds of succeeding years. Fronds two to twelve inches or more high.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/commongrape.php

18. Contents
The full list of contents.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/contents.php

19. Contents
The full list of contents.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/contents.php

20. Cotula (Golden Buttons)
Cotula has masses of small yellow button-like flowers all through the summer and is great for hiding the pond edges. It is an annual but seeds itself easily.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/cotula.php

21. Curly Grass Family (Schizæàceæ)
Small, slender ferns with linear or thready leaves, the sterile, one to two inches high and tortuous or 'curled like corkscrews' fertile fronds longer, three to five inches, and bearing at the top about five pairs of minute, fruited pinnæ.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/curly.php

22. Cyperus (Galingale, Umbrella Sedge)
Cyperus is an evergreen perennial that can be grown as a marginal or in the bog garden. The flower spikelets are green to reddish-brown in colour.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/cyperus.php

23. Darlingtonia (Cobra Lily)
Darlingtonia californica is one of the more tricky carnivorous plants to cultivate because it likes direct sunlight and its roots need to be cool.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/darlingtonia.php

24. Deep Water Plants
Pictorial index of deep water plants.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/

25. Deep Water Plants
Plants for the deeper parts of the pond.
http://www.pondlife.me.uk/plants/deepwater.php

26. Drosera (Sundew)
Drosera rotundifolia is a UK native sundew. Sundews are carnivorous plants that use a sticky mucilage secreted from the glandular hairs on their leaves to catch small insects.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/drosera.php

27. Eichhornia (Water Hyacinth)
Eichhornia has dark shiny leaves with bulbous stems. Pale violet Hyacinth-like flowers appear on spikes in summer, though it will not normally flower in cool summers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/eichhornia.php

28. Equisetum (Horse Tail)
Equisetaceae is an ancient evergreen plant group dating back to the Carboniferous period. They are related to ferns and reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/equisetum.php

29. Eriophorum (Cotton Grass)
Eriophorum is a marsh grass with cotton wool-like seed heads. It is an evergreen native to UK moorland, needs acid soil and water.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/eriophorum.php

30. Eupatorium (Boneset)
Eupatorium is a UK native wildflower that attracts to bees and butterflies. Ideal for the boggy edges at the back of a wildlife pond.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/eupatorium.php

31. Fern Literature
AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL. 1910. The American Fern Society. (Annual subscription, $1.25.)
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/literature.php

32. Filipendula (Meadowsweet)
Filipendula is a perennial herb that is native to most of Europe and western Asia. It has many medicinal uses including the treatment of fever, diarrhoea and acid stomach.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/filipendula.php

33. Floating Plants
Pictorial index of floating plants.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/

34. Floating Plants
Floating plants for the pond surface.
http://www.pondlife.me.uk/plants/floating.php

35. Geum (Water Avens)
Geum rivale is native to the UK and better suited to the bog garden but can be grown in shallow margins. Other varieties of Geum are not suitable and belong in the borders.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/geum.php

36. Geum (Water Avens)
Geum rivale is native to the UK and best suited to the bog garden but can be grown in shallow margins.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/geum.php

37. Glossary
ACÙMINATE. Gradually tapering to a point.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/glossary.php

38. Glyceria (Water Grass)
There are better grassy marginals than Glyceria. It is native to the UK and spreads quickly to choke more delicate plants. Very invasive, not recommended.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/glyceria.php

39. Grape Ferns (Botrýchium)
Rootstock very short, erect with clustered fleshy roots; the base of the sheathed stalk containing the bud for the next year's frond.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/grape.php

40. Gunnera (Prickly Rhubarb)
Gunnera is a large architectural plant with huge deeply veined rhubarb-like leaves supported on thick prickly stems.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/gunnera.php

41. Hart's Tongue and Walking Leaf
Sori linear, a row on either side of the midvein, and at right angles to it, the indusium appearing to be double.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/hartstongue.php

42. Hayscented Fern. Boulder Fern
Fronds one to three feet high, minutely glandular and hairy, ovate-lanceolate, pale green, very thin and mostly bipinnate.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/boulder.php

43. Hemerocallis (Day Lily)
Hemerocallis are available in a range of colours including yellow, orange, pink and red. Although each flower only lasts a day there are several buds on each stem and new flowers open daily.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/hemerocallis.php

44. Hippuris (Mare's Tail)
Hippuris is a deep marginal plant (20-60cm) and an excellent oxygenator.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/hippuris.php

45. Hosta (Plantain Lily)
Hostas are popular bog garden plants that are grown mainly for their foliage. They prefer some shade and are prone to slug damage.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/hosta.php

46. Houttuynia (Chameleon)
Fast growing dense ground cover. In full sun the green foliage is variegated with red and cream. In shade it will be daker green with red-bronze edges.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/houttuynia.php

47. Hydrocharis (Frogbit)
Hydrocharis looks like a tiny water lily with leaves measuring 2-5cm. Small white flowers appear in summer.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/hydrocharis.php

48. Hypericum (Marsh St John's Wort)
Good ground cover and for hiding the edges of pond liners. Hypericum elodes is the only St John's Wort suitable for the bog garden and margins.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/hypericum.php

49. Introduction
Thoreau tells us, 'Nature made a fern for pure leaves.' Fern leaves are in the highest order of cryptogams.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/introduction.php

50. Iris pseudacorus (Yellow Flag) and Iris pseudacorus (Yellow Flag)
This large vigorous water Iris is suitable for the larger pond or bog garden. Iris versicolor is smaller and less invasive than Iris pseudacorus making it more suitable for small ponds.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/iris.php

51. Iris pseudacorus (Yellow Flag) and Iris pseudacorus (Yellow Flag)
Large vigorous Iris suitable for the larger bog garden. UK native. Iris versicolor is smaller and less invasive than Iris pseudacorus making it more suitable for smaller areas.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/iris.php

52. Juncus (Rush)
Juncus effuses is a UK native rush. The variety 'Spiralis' (Corkscrew Rush) is the more popular form for the garden pond.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/juncus.php

53. Key To The Wood Ferns
The ferns of this group, not counting the small fragrant fern, prefer the woods or at least shady places.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/wood.php

54. Key to Genera
This key, in illustrating each genus, follows the method of Clute in 'Our Ferns in Their Haunts,' but substitutes other and larger specimens.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/keytogenera.php

55. Lemna (Duckweed)
Lemna minor is often seen covering the entire surface of a pond. Other varieties are Lemna gibba (Thick Duckweed) and Lemna polyrhiza (Greater Duckweed).
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/lemna.php

56. Ligularia (Golden Groundsel)
Ligularia dentata is grown as much for its foliage as for its clusters of large orange or yellow daisy-like flowers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/ligularia.php

57. Little Grape Fern. Botrychium símplex
Fronds two to four inches high, very variable. Sterile segment short-petioled, usually near the middle, simple and roundish or pinnately three to seven lobed.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/littlegrape.php

58. Lobelia (Cardinal flower)
Also suitable for the bog garden but it will be prone to slug damage. Short-lived, it only lasts about three years.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/lobelia.php

59. Lobelia (Great Blue Lobelia)
Lobelia siphilitica is a shade loving plant with spikes of blue flowers in late summer. It is prone to slug damage and short-lived, it only lasts about three years.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/lobelia.php

60. Lychnis (Ragged Robin)
Lychnis flos-cuculi can be found in damp places in much of Europe, Siberia and Caucasus. It is ideal for around a wildlife pond.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/lychnis.php

61. Lysichiton (Skunk Cabbage)
North American relative of the Arum with yellow spathes. Leaves are spear shaped, mid-green with dark blotches.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/lysichiton.php

62. Lysichiton (Skunk Cabbage)
North American relative of the Arum with yellow spathes. Leaves are spear shaped, mid-green with dark blotches. It can be grown in the bog garden or as a marginal.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/lysichiton.php

63. Lysimachia (Chinese Loosestrife)
Lysimachia clethroides looks like a small Buddleia with its curved spikes of tiny white flowers and lance-shaped leaves.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/lysimachia.php

64. Lysimachia (Loosestrife)
Lysimachia punctata has tall yellow flower spikes. It is suitable for the margins or bog garden.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/lysimachia.php

65. Lythrum (Purple loosestrife)
Lythrum is a tall wildflower naitve to the UK. The strong upright stems are topped with spikes of purple flowers in summer.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/lythrum.php

66. Lythrum (Purple loosestrife)
Lythrum is a tall wildflower naitve to the UK. The strong upright stems are topped with spikes of purple flowers in summer.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/lythrum.php

67. Making a Rock Garden
by H. S. Adams
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/

68. Marginal Plants
Pictorial index of marginal plants.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/

69. Marginal Plants
Plants for the margins and shallower parts of the pond.
http://www.pondlife.me.uk/plants/marginal.php

70. Matteuccia (Ostrich Fern)
Matteuccia struthiopteris looks best grown in groups in dappled shade. It sends out lateral stolons to form new crowns which can be left to form colonies or divided in spring.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/matteuccia.php

71. Mentha (Water mint)
Water mint is a vigorous spreading perennial with long creeping runners. Easy to grow, it spreads quickly so is best planted in a basket in the pond to limit its size.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/mentha.php

72. Menyanthes (Bog Bean)
This creeping plant is good for hiding pond edges. Grow in a container to prevent it taking over.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/menyanthes.php

73. Mimulus (Monkey Flower)
Mimulus ringens is the only true aquatic species of Monkey Flower. Some other varieties are less hardy as marginals and may be more successful in the bog garden.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/mimulus.php

74. Mimulus (Monkey Flower)
Mimulus lewisii is a popular rose-pink species of Monkey Flower. Other species include Mimulus cardinalis (orange-red) and Mimulus cupreus (red).
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/mimulus.php

75. Myosotis (Water forget-me-not)
Myosotis scorpioides spreads, without being invasive, into large clumps that are ideal for hiding pond edges.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/myosotis.php

76. Myriophyllum (Parrot Feather)
Myriophyllum is an excellent oxygenator. The crown must be below the ice level in winter.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/myriophyllum.php

77. Nasturtium (Watercress)
Watercress is a well known salad plant and a member of the cabbage family.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/nasturtium.php

78. Noted Fern Authors
The works of these authors are listed under 'Fern Literature' in the following pages.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/authors.php

79. Nuphar (Pond Lily)
Nuphar is not as showy as its water lily relative but does have two distinct advantages.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nuphar.php

80. Nymphaea 'Colonel A J Welch'
Nymphaea 'Colonel A J Welch' is a large water lily with lemon-yellow flowers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphaeacolonelajwelch.php

81. Nymphaea 'Marliacea Carnea'
Nymphaea 'Marliacea Carnea' is a large hybrid water lily. The vanilla scented, pale pink flowers have golden stamens.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphaeamarliaceacarnea.php

82. Nymphaea 'escarboucle'
Nymphaea 'escarboucle' is a large hybrid water lily. The fragrant, red flowers have yellow tipped red stamens.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphaeaescarboucle.php

83. Nymphaea 'marliacea chromatella'
Nymphaea 'marliacea chromatella' is a large hybrid water lily with olive green leaves that are mottled with bronze.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphaeamarliaceachromatella.php

84. Nymphaea alba (White Water Lily)
Nymphaea alba is a large water lily with white flowers and yellow stamens.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphaeaalba.php

85. Nymphaea caerulea (Blue Lotus)
Nymphaea caerulea is a large tropical water lily with blue flowers and yellow stamens.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphaeacaerulea.php

86. Nymphaea candida (Dwarf White Water Lily)
Nymphaea candida is a dwarf water lily. The white cup-shaped flowers have yellow stamens and crimson stigmas.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphaeacandida.php

87. Nymphaea odorata
Nymphaea odorata is a medium sized water lily that does well in relatively shallow water.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphaeaodorata.php

88. Nymphoides (Water Fringe)
Nymphoides looks like a miniature water lily with leaves measuring about 5cm.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/nymphoides.php

89. Onoclea (Sensitive Fern)
Onoclea sensibilis needs very wet soil and can be grown in the bog garden or shallow margings. The fronds change colour with the seasons.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/onoclea.php

90. Orontium (Golden Club)
Orontium is a member of the Arum family and can be grown in deep water or as a marginal.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/deep/orontium.php

91. Osmunda (Royal Fern)
Osmunda regalis is a large fern that needs lots of room. The tall lime-green fronds turn to bronze in the autumn.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/osmunda.php

92. Peltandra (Arrow Arum)
Peltandra has large arrow-shaped leaves that are deeply ribbed and glossy. The large pale green flowers resemble Arums or large Callas and are followed by green berries.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/peltandra.php

93. Peltiphyllum (Umbrella Plant)
Peltiphyllum (or Darmera) peltatum has globe-shaped heads of small pink flowers in spring . The foliage is bronze-green, turning to reds and browns in autumn.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/peltiphyllum.php

94. Phalaris (Gardeners Garters)
Phalaris is a vigorous grass with green and white variegated foliage. New growth is often tinged with pink.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/phalaris.php

95. Pistia (Water Lettuce)
A lettuce-shaped plant with ribbed, velvety foliage and feathery roots. It needs a warm summer to do well and is killed quickly by frost.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/pistia.php

96. Planting The Garden
There are two ways of planting a rock garden. One is to do all the crevice planting along with the building, and the other, of course, is to defer everything until the rocks are in place and the soil thoroughly settled.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/planting.php

97. Plants For A Rock Garden
So many plants are suitable for a rock garden that the range of choice is bewildering. In this, as in the laying out of the garden, advisability takes precedence over pure personal desire,
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/plants.php

98. Polygonum (Knotweed)
Polygonum affine is one of the most popular Knotweeds with long-lasting poker-like heads of tiny pink flowers. There are many varieties but choose carefully as most are very invasive.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/polygonum.php

99. Pontederia (Pickerel Weed)
Pontederia is an excellent marginal plant with broad olive-green glossy foliage. The spikes of blue flowers appear after most other marginal plants have finished flowering.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/pontederia.php

100. Preface
A lover of nature feels the fascination of the ferns though he may know little of their names and habits.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/preface.php

101. Primula (Primrose)
Primula is an excellent bog garden plant that looks great around the wildlife pond. There are numerous varieties and colours to choose from.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/primula.php

102. Ranunculus (Greater Spearwort)
Ranunculus lingua is a vigorous plant suitable for larger ponds. It is too invasive for smaller ponds. The new leaves are pink and turn green with age.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/ranunculus.php

103. Rheum (Chinese Rhubarb)
Rheum palmatum is an ornamental rhubarb with large architectural foliage that are crimson-purple when young. The cerise-pink flowers are borne on huge flower spikes in summer.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/rheum.php

104. Rodgersia
Rodgersia podophylla is grown as much for its foliage as for the plumes of star-shaped creamy-green flowers that appear in summer.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/rodgersia.php

105. Sagittaria (Arrowhead)
Sagittaria sagittifolia has, as the common name Arrowhead suggests, very distinctive arrow-shaped leaves.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/sagittaria.php

106. Salvinia (Giant Salvinia)
Salvinia is an aquatic fern with light green bristly fronds. A fast growing annual, it forms dense mats and can be very invasive.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/salvinia.php

107. Sarracenia (Pitcher Plant)
Sarracenia flava is one of a few carnivorous plants that can be grown outdoors. It has tall green-yellow pitchers with red veining and unusual yellow flowers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/sarracenia.php

108. Saururus (Lizard's Tail)
Saururus has heart-shaped leaves and spikes of fragrant creamy-white flowers. This invasive marginal is best grown in a container to restrict its spread.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/saururus.php

109. Schizostylis (Kaffir Lily)
Schizostylis coccinea is a late flowering plant with Gladioli-like flower spikes and sword-shaped leaves. This South African plant is not fully hardy.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/schizostylis.php

110. Scirpus (Bulrush)
Scirpus is the true native UK Bulrush, not the often incorrectly named Typha (Reedmace). Scirpus has tall stiff needle-like leaves and tassels of tiny brown flowers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/scirpus.php

111. Sparganium (Bur-reed)
Sparganium is a reed-like plant with round prickly seed heads. It is not only very invasive but the sharp pointed rhizomes can easily puncture the pond liner.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/sparganium.php

112. Stratiotes (Water Soldier)
Stratiotes has serrated sword-like leaves and resembles a pineapple top floating on the water. The white flowers are borne in clusters on the male plant, the female plant has single flowers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/stratiotes.php

113. The Beech Ferns
The beech ferns are often classed with the polypodies, because, like them, they have no indusium; but in other ways they are more akin to the wood ferns.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/beech.php

114. The Bladder Ferns (Cystópteris)
The bladder ferns are a dainty, rock-loving family partial to a limestone soil.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/bladder.php

115. The Bracken Group
Sporangia near or on the margin of the segments, the reflexed portions of which serve as indusia.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/bracken.php

116. The Choice Of A Site
The best site for a rock garden is where it ought to be. That is a sad truth, for it eliminates some homes from the game; but useless waste of time will be saved if this is recognized at the outset.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/site.php

117. The Cloak Fern (Notholàena)
Small ferns with fruit-dots borne beneath the revolute margin of the pinnules, at first roundish, but soon confluent into a narrow band without indusium.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/cloak.php

118. The Fern Family Proper or Real Ferns
Green, leafy plants whose spores are borne in spore-cases (sporangia), which are collected in dots or clusters (fruit-dots or sori) on the back of the frond or form lines along the edge of its divisions.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/polypodies.php

119. The Fern Lover's Companion
A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton, A.M.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/

120. The Filmy Fern Family (Hymenophyllàceæ)
The filmy ferns are small, delicate plants with membranaceous, finely dissected fronds from slender, creeping rootstocks. Sporangia sessile on a bristle-like receptacle.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/filmy.php

121. The Flowering Fern Family (OSMUNDÀCEAE)
This family is represented in North America by three species, all of which belong to the single genus.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/flowering.php

122. The Large Spleenworts (Athýrium)
The following species, which are often two to three feet high and grow in rich soil, are quite different in appearance and habits from the small rock spleenworts just described.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/spleenwortlarge.php

123. The Lip Ferns (Cheilánthes)
Mostly small southern ferns growing on rocks, pubescent or tomentose with much divided leaves.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/lip.php

124. The Rock Garden
In Europe, particularly in England, the rock garden is an established institution with a distinct following. The English works on the subject alone form a considerable bibliography.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/rockgarden.php

125. The Sensitive And Ostrich Ferns
It is a question whether the sensitive and ostrich fern should be included in the same genus. They are similar in many respects, but not in all.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/sensitive.php

126. The Shield Ferns
These have been grouped with the wood ferns, but are now usually placed under the genus Polýstichum, which has the sori round and covered with a circular indusium fixed to the frond by its depressed center.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/shield.php

127. The Spleenworts
Small, evergreen ferns. Fruit-dots oblong or linear, oblique, separate when young.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/spleenwort.php

128. The Wall Garden
A wall garden is a perpendicular rock garden. But whereas a rock garden is of all things irregular, a wall garden has regularity.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/wallgarden.php

129. The Woodsias
Small, tufted, pinnately divided ferns. Fruit-dots borne on the back of simply forked, free veins.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/woodsias.php

130. The Work Of Construction
Spring is the best time to make a rock garden. When the important matter of the proper site has been put in the past, a definite scheme must be planned.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/construction.php

131. Time List for Fruiting of Ferns
Compiled from Dodge's 'Ferns and Fern Allies of New England'
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/fernlovers/timelist.php

132. Trapa (Water Chestnut)
Trapa has dark green serrated leaves on swollen stems. In warmer regions the small white flowers are followed by spiny fruits which fall to the bottom of the pond to overwinter and produce new plants in the spring.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/trapa.php

133. Trollius (Globe Flower)
Trollius europaeus has dark green lobed leaves and large globular yellow flowers. This UK native plant is easy to grow as long as the soil is not allowed to dry out.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/bog/trollius.php

134. Typha (Reedmace)
Typha is a common native UK plant often found by ponds, lakes and streams. It is too large and invasive for most garden ponds.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/typha.php

135. Utricularia (Bladderwort)
Utricularia is the largest genus of carnivorous plants consisting of over 200 species. They occur in fresh water and boggy soil on every continent except Antarctica.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/utricularia.php

136. Veronica (Brooklime)
Veronica is a small evergreen plant that is ideal for hiding the edge of a pond. The flowers are bright blue with a white center.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/veronica.php

137. Water And Bog Gardens
Neither the water nor the bog garden is dependent on rocks. Either or both, however, may just as well be an adjunct of the rock garden.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/rockgardens/waterandbog.php

138. Wildlife Gardens
A wildlife garden is an environment that is attractive to various forms of wildlife such as birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, mammals etc.
http://www.pondlife.me.uk/gardens/wildlifegarden.php

139. Zantedeschia (Arum Lily)
Zantedeschia is a striking architectural plant with large glossy arrow-shaped leaves and large white hood-shaped flowers. A must have plant that looks great by the pond.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/marginal/zantedeschia.php