Pond Plant: Filipendula ulmaria - meadowsweet

Pond Plant: Filipendula ulmaria - meadowsweetMeadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) Filipendula ulmaria is a lovely plant of damp meadows as the name suggests and widespread across most of Europe. It was said to be a great favourite of Queen Elizabeth's, at which stage it was used as a "strewing herb" to sweeten the smell of floor rushes. Meadowsweet is an excellent plant for wildlife. It's said to be the larval food plant for at least 75 invertebrate species (including 23 moths!), and throughout

The nursery grows new stock from autumn to spring

and throughout high summer a range of pollinators love its succession of frothy white flowers

and supply them as 110cc jumbo plug plants or bare root

"Flag" comes from the middle English word for a rush or reed

Mentha aquatica

or Brandy Bottle (Nuphar lutea) - AVAILABLE FROM END MAY

The coir is imported from a Sri Lankan village wiped out by the 2004 Tsunami

It's inert and pH neutral

Looks a bit like Water avens

We offer water plantain as generous 110cc cc plugs

Great for bees and hoverflies

although it's part of a 50 plant genus spread across most of the world