The Great Bulrush is common near the coast and gets much rarer in the inland. It is one of the few bulrushs that can deal with salt in the soil or water.

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Round-Headed Club-Rush populations throughout Central Europe are disappearing and at many places the plant is now extinct. It dwells on shores and in shallow water, where it is an attraction when in bloom. Its globular inflorescenses are quite showy. Very rarely offered in nurseries.

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A relative of potato and tomato as you can easily tell from the shape of the flowers. But like many other members of this familiy it is not edible but poisonous. Its stalks lignify and float in shallow water or grow half erect in wet soil. The pretty violet flowers appear in late summer. Later they ...

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To me this is the most beautiful Bur Reed. It propagates rapidly by runners and soon will cover a remarkable area. In mid summer it bears many globular flowers. They are creme-coloured and each of them looks like small hedgehog.

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A larger version of the common bur-reed. Main difference is the fact that the globular flowers are sitting on a branched flower stalk that is turned zigzag. This plant is good material for flower arrangements.

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The Marsh Woundwort is a plant that is still frequent in the wild. It has a tendency to run riot in the pond so you will want to plant it into a container where you can keep an eye on it. From summer on it bears purple flowers in its leaf axils. It the past it was used for medical purposes.

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Cattails grow exuberantly and they are responsible for a great deal of silting up of water bodies - but a garden pond without them is simply unthinkable. So best provide it with a container of its own and keep a sharp eye on it. Allmost all parts of this plant are edible. You can cook the rhizomes or ...

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A very invasive variety of Cattail, probably the most invasive of all. If you want to grow it, better pot it into a container and mercilessly cut away everything that grows over the seam. Its very attractive dark brown spadices appear from August on.

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Variegated plants do have a special fascination. Especially in the UK there are many collectors of variegated plants, and this is where this cultivar comes from. Its leaves are green and creme variegated and look quite elegant. Reason for variegation is always a partial lack of chlorophyll, which ...

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Not as vigourously growing as the other large cattails, but better keep an eye also on this one. It is a variety with very narrow leaves and short (almost oval) light brown spadices. They rippen from August on.

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We used to sell this cattail by the name Typha gracilis which is a synonym of Typha minima. In our nursery those two plants looked quite different. Only recently we learned that correct name of our plant: Typha lugdunensis - the cattail from Lyons. It is a cattail that can be found along the river Rhone ...

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The smallest cattail and very close to extinction. As far as we can backtrack the story the ancestors of our stock plants, they were rescued from drowing in a storage lake of river Lech in the 50ies of the 20th century. Since that time offshoots were handed from one enthusiast to the next until ...

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The Brooklime forms dense light green cushions on wet soil or in shallow water. Its blue flowers appear from spring to the end of summer. It was nce used as a salad but it has a slightly purgative effect - certainly not a salad for every day.

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