Provide for a range of aquatic plants that give wildlife such as frogs and newts both shelter and a place to rest, a place for aquatic larvae to grow into small flies that attract bats and dragonflies and also to oxygenate the pond.

Marginal plants provide larvae food for caterpillars and nectar for visiting moths butterflies and bees.

Sedges and rushes provide a good shelter for pond life

A selection of native marginal and aquatic planting for wildlife including bats, butterflies moths, frogs, newts and bees include the following; Marsh marigold, Bogbean, Water forget-me-not, Purple Loosestrife, Yellow flag Iris, Water mint, Water violet, Fringe Lilley, Meadowsweet, Pendulous sedge, Flowering sedge and Cyperus sedge