his is an exciting expanding area of interest to gardeners and farmers. Well known examples of edible water plants are rice, taro and water chestnuts. However there are edible plants amongst a large range of ornamental pond plants. See below for a range of plants that have either edible leaves or roots, or can be used as a food source following preparation and cooking.Water irises and lotus are also edible. See separate list of water irises for sale.
We recommend the Australian book by Nick Romanowski "Edible Water Gardens" for more information.
Please note the disclaimer that general information only is provided and your own research should be undertaken prior to ingesting any part of any plant. There is an expanding body of information available on the internet.
These plants are sold in 75mm pots with well grown roots ready to plant directly in your water garden or to repot into a larger container to put in your pond. All plants come with planting instructions.
Please refer to the Order tab for details on how to order plants and information on availability.
This page orders the plants by botanical name for a list ordered by common name select the Common Name column heading.
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