This African plant is better known among aquarists than among pond owners, although it is a perfect outdoor plant during summer. Its foliage is pinnate like that of Mimosa. The flowers look like yellow snapdragons and are produced from July on when the water is warm enough. It is a ...

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A tropical floating plant than can propagate tremendously under optimal conditions. Its leaves are light green and finely devided, they are also water-repellent. It is a very interesting plant for it is a kind of fern that lives in symbiosis with algae inside its cells. The fairy-moss is usualy not ...

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`Hilo Beauty` is something unique among the Taros. It is a smaller variety and its foliage is always heavily mottled.

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This is one of the varieties that is used as a vegetable in the tropics. The foliage is dark green or sometimes even black and it may exceed one meter length (in Europe it remains much smaller). The tubers are used to gain starch. If you intend to harvest it for food, you will need to...

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In the USA this Taro is called `Imperial Taro`. It`s its size that makes it imperial, for it can reach up to 1.5 m height. The foliage is consequently also very large and quite attractively coloured (olive with purple hue).

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Colocasias are tropical aroids. The best known of them is taro, an important vegetable in the tropics.  `Black Magic` grows to about a meter has violet-brownish leafs that resemble an elefants ear. If you want to see an elefant with its ears aglow, you may consider to plant...

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`Black Marble` is a rare Taro, for it is not easy to propagate. It is a sport of `Burgundy Stem` and its olive green leaves bear an unregular pattern in purple. No two leaves are alike and unfortunatelly the pattern isn`t steady. During propagation a certain amount of the young plants drop back to the original variety. As a result most nurseries do not keep this variety. We liked the pattern so much that we decided to propagate the variety anyway.

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`Fontanesii` got green foliage with red stalks. Sometimes the leafs got a light coppery hue. In the garden it can become quite large and in warm summers it reach more than two meters hight. If autumn is sunny, too, you may expect a typical aroid flower that is papaya-scented.

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The Pale Galingale once was at home from the southern USA to northern Southamerica, but today it can be found almost worldwide. In Centraleurope is was discovered for the first time in 1854 and since then it became part of our flora. It growns on wet soils that may not be covered by...

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A dwarf edition of Papyrus, therefore easily kept in a small bowl. The plant thrives on wet soil and sometimes dares to grow into the water. Not hardy, but can spend the summer in the pond.

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The Egyptian Paper Plant generaly is a plant for the experienced plant enthusiast who idealy owns a heated greenhouse. The plant needs light, warmth and high humidity. During summer we will find those conditions in the garden (at least in the warmer regions), or we can create them in...

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In most warmer countries of the world this plant is banned for it propagates in warm water with unbelievable speed and vigour and forms a thick carpet on the surface of lakes and slow running rivers. The carpet can become so thick that all other plant below it die because of the lack of sunlight. Sometime ...

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You might know this plant from Chinese groceries or Chinese restaurants. What is sold there as `water-chestnut` (and many people consider to be the fruit of Trapa natans) is the storage bulb of a spike-rush. Closely related to our native spike-rush it is probably the only member of this genus that ...

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We received our first seeds of this plant from the UK. It is hardy there in most parts of the country and therefore quite common among gardeners. On the continent however it is fairly unknown, especially among pond owners. It`s a pity since it is such an attractive mallow! Its large rosecoloured ...

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This mallow received its name not from soldiers that use to stick its flowers behind their ears (what a pity, isn`t it?) but the botanist that choosed the name thought of halberds when he examined the leaves. It is native to the southeast of the USA so it is not hardy in most parts of Central ...

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From the south of the US comes a group of marsh mallows that are on the edge of being hardy in Central Europe. They survive milder winters almost everywhere, in colder winters they need protection. The Greater Marsh-Mallow is an impressive plant in summer. The wetter its position the larger it flowers ...

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Water Poppy got its` name because of the shape of its flower, not because of the flower. It small circular floating leaves pop up everywhere in shallow water, while its rhizome crawls along the bottom of the pond. Its pale yellow flowers appear in summer above water surface. It can...

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What surprises us most with this plant is the fact that is NOT a common houseplant. It grows perfectly well in bowl on the windowsill and looks just charming there. Its foliage is bright green and the leaves stand upright - what makes them look like bucklers (someone here once smuggled a police-smurf ...

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We received this Asian pennywort from the nursery of Craig Presnell in Florida. The name refers to the size of the leaves, they are really hardly bigger than confetti, so it is one of the smallest varieties of pennywort. In this case the confetti is spotted white and pink, so its really nice. ...

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There are several spider lilies, but just a few of them are used in Europe as not hardy summer flowers for bedding. Few gardeners know that there are some spider lilies that prefer wet soil or even shallow water. The swamp spider lily (how surprising ... is one of them. It is native...

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