Plant of the week

@ www.aquatilium.co.uk We love pontederia. Fantastic addition to any pond.

Pontederia cordata

Other common namespickerel weed heart-leaved pickerel weed

Family Pontederiaceae

Genus Pontederia are herbaceous perennials from marginal aquatic habitats, forming clumps of erect, linear or lance-shaped leaves, with 2-lipped blue flowers in dense terminal spikes in late summer and early autumn.

Details P. cordata is a marginal aquatic perennial to 1.2m, forming a clump of erect, lance-shaped or ovate, bright green leaves to 18cm in length, with dense erect spikes, to 15cm in length, of small tubular deep blue flowers in late summer.