All gardens look good with a bit of variety to add to the interest, and what better way to spice up a garden than with a pond?
Ponds are intriguing talking points and very decorative features, giving as they do life in the form of interesting plants, fish and snails, and for all your pond needs, you can get it all delivered from Pond Megastore, America’s Largest Nursery of Water Lilies and Pond Plants.
Pond Megastore has been in the business for almost 20 years, and the people in this company know everything there is to know about ponds and water gardens - how to install them, how to look after the water, what fish to keep and what to feed them, but most of all they can tell you what pond plants and water lilies look and grow best in your pond, in your location, and help you to achieve a beautiful and colourful pond garden that will enhance your garden with ease. Pond plants and water lilies are available retail to your door or wholesale water lilies and pond plants are available to nursery and wholesale dealers of fish and plants.
Pond Plant Collections
America’s Largest Pond Plant nursery is still expanding with growing facilities now in Florida, Ohio, Maryland, Texas, Missouri, and Indiana. You can buy water lilies and pond plants in a wider selection than anywhere else in the world. Nearly three hundred species many new varieties are available now shipped directly to your home or business via FedEx or other shipping methods. The owner of Pond Megastore, Zac DeGarmeaux has been working the past few years with developers to bring new pond plants and many new water lilies to the retail market. No longer will you have to travel to botanical gardens to see the most amazing water lilies, they can be grown just as easily as native species in your own back yard. You can now buy pond plants and water lilies in pond plant collections for different sized ponds.
Pond Kits
Pond Megastore has an extensive selection of pond kits, complete with liners and full instructions on how to install your pond, from a 550-gallon pond measuring six foot by ten foot, to a 3000-gallon goliath that is over twenty feet long and sixteen feet wide!
Once you have your pond, you’ll can fill it with water and keep that water treated initially for chlorine. Pond Megastore have all the right additives and treatments you will ever need, from algae treatments to pond products and pond treatments that remove the chlorine from tap water- important for the health of plants and fish.
Vast range of plants
As for plants, there can be no more extensive range available than at Pond Megastore. The on-line catalogue gives page after page of beautiful and hardy and tropical pond plants, with advice on how they should be planted and where will thrive � lets have a look at a few:
There’s the Albatross water lily, a beautiful white flowering plant with a yellow centre that is good for medium sized ponds, or the Attraction, a fantastic stunning red lily that has eight inch wide blooms, and thrives in deeper ponds.
Or there’s Chromatella, a yellow flowering lily that reaches six inches across and is suitable for smaller ponds, and the Mayla, a pink hardy lily that will do well in any environment.
New Varieties include selections like the Miami Rose water lily, Pink Passion water lily, a deep red Antares night blooming water lily, or the new 2008 winner the Ultra Violet water lily or runner up, Virginia McLane water lily. Developers such as Craig Presnell and both Brad and Brandon McLane are adding many new varieties to the list we hope to bring you over the next few years. These special water plants will not be available in local nursery or garden centers where you may be choosing from less than 6 species.
Old favourites are always available to buy online or by phone available, William McLane, a wonderful blue from 1997, or the intense white Moondance, a winner of 2001. In 2009 the great Victoria water lily, Victoria cruziana with lily pads up to six feet across will be available.
Floating plants such as water hyacinths and water lettuce can be purchased depending upon the state you live. These plants are easy to grow as they do not need to be planted like most aquatic plants.
Bog plants and lotus are also available and information on each species along with pictures can be found on the Pond Megastore website and in the printed catalogs each spring.
Fish, snails and tadpoles
But these are just a handful of a truly vast range available at Pond Megastore, and then there’s the fish!
Large Koi or small Koi depending on your pond size, winter hardy and beautiful calico Shubunkins for a little added variety, and what about snails? Japanese trapdoor snails help keep a water garden free of string algae, and you can even buy tadpoles for your own family of bullfrogs that will eat any insects hanging around the pond.
Whatever you choose, a pond is a great way to add interest to a garden, and with the wide supply of ponds and accessories, plus pond plants and pond fish on offer at Pond Megastore, you can have your required items delivered to your door at a sensible and economical price.
