Water Hyacinth

These water-loving beauties produce gorgeous lavender-blue flowers that are ideal for creating a cheerful aquatic garden or livening up your favorite feature. Noted for their prominent lavender-blue flowers and fleshy, rounded, floating leaves, water hyacinth grows quickly in warm water. Plants propagate readily from leaf shoots which develop into new plants, called pups.

Where it can be grown legally, it is a welcome addition to the water garden for its ability to filter out unwanted nutrients and for its attractive flowers. Although each flower lasts only a day or two, they are borne in abundance.

Water Hyacinth provides many natural benefits to your pond:

• Water Hyacinth provides great natural protection and cover for your koi from heron and other predators.

• These oxygenating plants keep the water clean and filtered in your water garden.

• They serve as natural biofilters to your pond

• Controls algae by absorbing nutrients from the water

Did you know: Water hyacinth is a free-floating perennial aquatic plant (or hydrophyte) native to tropical and sub-tropical South America.