Of course, hobby gardeners prefer their swamp plants to be hardy in the swamp bed near the garden pond or in the pot. In this case, you don't have to laboriously bring the specimens into the house during the frosty season. This article briefly and succinctly portrays popular hardy swamp plants.
Which swamp plants are hardy?
Hardy swamp plants can be left outside in the winter without harm. Popular examples include purple loosestrife, curly pondweed, jugweed, meadowsweet, swamp calla, marsh marigold, swamp fern, swamp horsetail, swamp forget-me-not, swamp iris and cotton grass.
11 hardy swamp plants in a mini portrait
You'll get to know eleven attractive swamp plants that are frost-resistant and can therefore easily be left outside in winter without being damaged. Serve as points of comparison
- the flower color,
- the required water depth,
- the location desired for the respective plant and
- the need for care.
In this way, you have the opportunity to compare the various winter-hardy swamp plants based on their main visual characteristics as well as the location requirements and the effort required for you to cultivate them.
The compact comparison will certainly make it easier for you to find the best marsh plants for your garden pond.
Loosestrife (botanical name: Lythrum salicaria)
Flower color: pink
Required water depth: 0 cm
Desired location: sunnyCare: easy
Krauses pondweed (botanical name: Potamogeton crispus)
Flower color: green
Required water depth: 40 to 120 cm
Desired location: sunny to partially shadedCare: easy
Magician flower (botanical name: Mimulus luteus)
Flower color: yellow
Required water depth: 0 to 20 cm
Desired location: sunny to partially shadedCare: easy
Meadowsweet (botanical name: Filipendula spec)
Flower color: white to pink
Required water depth: 0 cm
Desired location: partially shaded to shadyCare: easy
Swamp calla (botanical name: Calla palustris)
Flower color: white to pink
Required water depth: 0 cm
Desired location: sunny to partially shadedCare: easy
Swamp marigold (botanical name: C altha palustris)
Flower color: yellow
Required water depth: 0 to 20 cm
Desired location: sunny to partially shadedCare: easy
Swamp fern (botanical name: Thelypteris palustris)
Flower color: –
Required water depth: 0 to 5 cm
Desired location: partially shadedCare: easy
Swamp horsetail (botanical name: Equisetum palustre)
Flower color: brown
Required water depth: 0 cm
Desired location: sunny to partially shadedCare: easy
Swamp forget-me-not (botanical name: Myosotis scorpiodes)
Flower color: blue
Required water depth: 0 cm
Desired location: sunny to partially shadedCare: easy
Swamp Iris (botanical name: Iris pseudocarus)
Flower color: yellow
Required water depth: 0 to 20 cm
Desired location: sunny to partially shadedCare: easy
Ebony grass (botanical name: Eriophorum vaginatum)
Flower color: white
Required water depth: 0 to 40 cm
Desired location: sunnyCare: medium
