Ponds and Ducks

[leyland]

Where i am living at the moment we are having a new pond built for upto 4 farmyard ducks. My girlfriends mum is wanting to plant native plants but is concerned that the ducks would just eat them all! Going through previous threads i can not see anything about ducks on ponds. Does anyone know any plants not to get? At the moment we have a smaller pond with koi surrounded by Marsh Marigold and Yellow Flag, 2 of the ducks nested and laid eggs but unfortunetly they kicked them out into the water, but then a couple of weeks later we noticed a family of Moorhens including 4 newly fledged Chicks on the pond. Hopefully they might move on to the new one.

P.S the pond will be the size of half a tennis court.

[dampflippers]

Please do go for native plants and avoid the invasive alien ones which can take over ponds.

Don't put these in:
Curly Waterweed Lagarosiphon major
False-acacia Robinia pseudoacacia
Fanwort Cabomba caroliniana
Few-flowered Leek Allium paradoxum
Floating Pennywort Hydrocotyle ranunculoides
Giant Salvinia Salvinia molesta
Hottentot Fig Carpobrotus edulis
New Zealand Pigmyweed (Australian Swamp Stonecrop) Crassula helmsii
Parrot's-feather Myriophyllum aquaticum
Shallon Gaultheria shallon
Water Fern Azolla filliculoides
Water Hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes
Water Lettuce Pistia stratiotes

On this pdf link, the blue pages are the good plants and the white pages are the bad plants http://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/asset...tland-2006.pdf
and CWT, Invasive Alien Pond Plants

If you put your postcode in the Postcode plants website The Postcode Plants Database - Natural History Museum it will give you a list of what will suit your are. It includes marsh plants and water plants.

Forducks, Plant deep and plant alot and be prepared for muddy water and alot of churning up.

Good plants:
The following plants can act as native alternatives to non-native pond plants. These must never be collected from the wild and should only be bought from reputable garden centres, where their origin as cultivated plants can be assured.

Callitriche stagnalis Starwort
Ceratophyllum demersum Hornwort
Eleocharis acicularis Hair Grass
Fontinalis antipyretica Willow Moss
Hippuris vulgaris Marestail
Hottonia palustris Water Violet
Myriophyllum spicatum Water Milfoil
Myriophyllum verticillatum Whorled Milfoil
Potamogeton crispus Curly Pondweed
Ranunculus aquatilis Water Crowfoot

Nymphaea alba White Water Lily (for large ponds only)
Nuphar lutea Yellow Water Lily (for large ponds only

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by dampflippers

Please do go for native plants and avoid the invasive alien ones which can take over ponds.

Don't put these in:
Curly Waterweed Lagarosiphon major
False-acacia Robinia pseudoacacia
Fanwort Cabomba caroliniana
Few-flowered Leek Allium paradoxum
Floating Pennywort Hydrocotyle ranunculoides
Giant Salvinia Salvinia molesta
Hottentot Fig Carpobrotus edulis
New Zealand Pigmyweed (Australian Swamp Stonecrop) Crassula helmsii
Parrot's-feather Myriophyllum aquaticum
Shallon Gaultheria shallon
Water Fern Azolla filliculoides
Water Hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes
Water Lettuce Pistia stratiotes

On this pdf link, the blue pages are the good plants and the white pages are the bad plants http://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/asset...tland-2006.pdf
and CWT, Invasive Alien Pond Plants

If you put your postcode in the Postcode plants website The Postcode Plants Database - Natural History Museum it will give you a list of what will suit your are. It includes marsh plants and water plants.

Forducks, Plant deep and plant alot and be prepared for muddy water and alot of churning up.

Good plants:
The following plants can act as native alternatives to non-native pond plants. These must never be collected from the wild and should only be bought from reputable garden centres, where their origin as cultivated plants can be assured.

Callitriche stagnalis Starwort
Ceratophyllum demersum Hornwort
Eleocharis acicularis Hair Grass
Fontinalis antipyretica Willow Moss
Hippuris vulgaris Marestail
Hottonia palustris Water Violet
Myriophyllum spicatum Water Milfoil
Myriophyllum verticillatum Whorled Milfoil
Potamogeton crispus Curly Pondweed
Ranunculus aquatilis Water Crowfoot

Nymphaea alba White Water Lily (for large ponds only)
Nuphar lutea Yellow Water Lily (for large ponds only

At least 3 of the plants you say to avoid don't even grow in water!!Allium paradoxum, Robinia ( a tree) + Carprobutus.

[leyland]

Thanks Dampflippers for the list, much appreciated. We're going to have fun choosing the plants, luckily the hard work of digging the pond is being done by a couple of burly men. Plus i'm sure tim and tam, the ducks will enjoy it as well.