The Sweetflag came from Southeast Asia as a medical plant. It is supposed that it was in the 16th century when it was cultivated for the first time in Europe in Prague. From there it has spread all over the continent and is now regarded as a nativ plant (as a `neophyt` to express it correctly). It is ...

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This is a mutation of the common sweetflag. The only difference to the species is that the leaves are green and white varieged. If the plant doesn`t get enough sunlight, the variegation may fade away.

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Masamune` is our smallest variety of grass-leafed Sweetflag. Nethertheless it is a very vigorous plant that can form in shallow water dense carpets of yellowish-green leaves. Like with all grass-leafed Sweetflags it is advisable to give the plant some winter protection in Central Europe.

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If you look closely you will realize that `Ogon` is yellow-green variegated, but the yellow is so pale it appears from afar like white. Like all grass-leafed Sweetflags this variety need some shelter during winter in Central Europe.

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If a plant is endangered and needs to be protected depends very much on the local situation. The narrow leafed Water Plantain is a protected and very rare plant in Germany - in other countries it is a weed in rice fields. Rice fields are perfect habitats for it, for it adores shallow water and banks ...

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A modest beauty, you got to look closely to estimate it. Broad leaves emerge of the water and give the impression that a plantain has fallen into the pond. But from June one a myriade of florets appears over the water. They are of palest pink and now the general impression is that of Baby`s Breath growing ...

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Probably the most beautiful Water Plantain but not very common in cultivation. It might be a result of its old botanic name `Alisma parviflora` - `Water Plantain with few Flowers`. Few flowers? Yes, but remarkably larger than the flowers of all the other Water Plantains. From June to September ...

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The Lesser Water Plantain lives in a rare habitat: the margins of water bodies with heavy changes of water level. In spring it germinates on wet muddy ground, but in winter this place got to be flooded to give the plant protection. If you examine the flowers you can easily realize the...

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A plant with two different forms of appearance: in deep water it is an oxygenating and evergreen submerged plant. It shows pinnate leaves and forms large cushions under water. In shallow water though it emerges and shows in summer white umbels of flowers, in winter it becomes dormant. Don`t be fooled ...

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One of the most beautiful marsh plant. Large umbels of pink flowers do appear on high stalks in mid summer. If the plant won`t flower in your pond it is probably sitting too deep. It will tolerate a depth of at most 30 cms. Better keep it too shallow than too deep.

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A selection of the Flowering Rush with more intense pink flowers.

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One of Grimm`s Fairy Tales is called `Snow-White and Rose-Red` - in German `Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot`. So if there is a Flowering Rush called `Rosenrot`, `Schneeweisschen` can`t be far! Here it is: the almost pure white version of the Flowering Rush.

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Japanes Cress is often used by by aquarists as submerged plant in the aquarium. There it is usualy pale green and gives a fragile impression. In the wild it lives under quite different conditions: on wet meadows from Eastern China to Japan. If you keep with just its feet wet it changes...

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The lesser Pond Sedge was an important plant of wet meadows, for it is one of the few sedges that will regrow after being cut in June. It is a grey-green plant, bearing in early summer brown spikes on high stalks. Grateful for some peat in the soil.

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A sedge from Northern America, where it can be found in swamps. Its size varies considerable from just 20 cms up to 200 cms, only depending on the location and the soil. Its fruits are cylindric and yellowish green. The look rather nice in a flower arrangement.

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A sedge that still is common; in wet meadows as well as in shallow water. It forms bluegreen tussocks and bears dark, almost black spikes in late spring. Like most sedges it provides good material for bouquets and floral arrangements.

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This sedge forms very large and dense tussocks. It is to be found in a multitude of locations: fontains, ditches, wet forests and wet meadows. It blooms in early summer and reaches sometimes one meter height.

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A rare native sedge, flowering in summer with large yellowish pending spikes over yellow-green leaves.

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A quite common sedge, that can form large populations. It bears greygreen leaves and yellowish spikes in early summer.

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This is the European cousin of the Egyptian papyrus - but they do not look alike at all. It is a quite rare plant, in Germany it is extinct, except for one population at Lake Constance. It forms loose clumps and flowers in late summer with red-brown spikelets.

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