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PLANTING
WILDLIFE
PONDS
Plants are very important for a wildlife
pond. As well as making your pond look
beautiful, they also provide homes for your
aquatic creatures.
To decide which plants will be best for
pond wildlife, you need to think about the
world from an aquatic animal’s eye-view.
Almost all pond animals live in the safety of
dense vegetation, and most in very shallow
water - often only a few centimetres
deep. The plants that provide the best
habitats are those that create a diverse
and complex underwater structure at the
water ’s edge.
Low-growing grasses and marginal wetland
plants that grow out in the water are
excellent for this. In other parts of the pond
you can include different types of plant
with a range of submerged and floating
stems and leaves to give the widest range
of habitat types. Encourage plants to
grow in different densities and ranges
of water depths.
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