Create a thriving habitat for local wildlife in your garden pond or patio container with the Native Pond Kit. This comprehensive kit includes everything you need to easily plant a wildlife-friendly space, featuring three UK-native pond plants, an aquatic planting basket, pond soil, and gravel. Perfect for quick planting, this collection will attract a variety of pond creatures while enhancing your garden with a stunning natural display. The Native Pond Kit contains: Flag Iris: With its striking sword-shaped foliage and tall stems, this plant produces vibrant yellow blooms in early summer. Height: 100cm (39″) | Spread: 30cm (12″) Acorus: A hardy perennial with graceful, arching grass-like leaves. Height and Spread: 40cm (15″) Sparganium: Known for its unique spherical brown flowers on tall, upright stems, this plant later transforms into spiky round fruits. Height: 150cm (59″) | Spread: 200cm (78″) 1 x Planting Basket, Pond Soil, and Gravel to help establish your new pond plants. This kit offers a simple, effective way to introduce native plants that will nurture wildlife and bring beauty to your outdoor space.
Growing Information
Empty the soil mix into the aquatic planting basket, and plant the bareroots so that the growing point sits just below the soil surface. Cover the surface of the soil with the gravel to hold the compost in place. It is recommended that the planting basket is gently submerged in a bucket of water to allow the compost to become completely soaked through. This will allow any loose compost to float to the surface before you position it in its final position – choose a sunny or lightly shaded spot.
The perennials in this collection will need dividing and repotting each spring to maintain their vigour.
