Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat Adding Plant Life to New Pond

You will get plant life naturally often relatively quickly. First phytoplankton, then filamentous algae which often includes Chara or Nitella although these two look like bristly submerged plants. All above plants come in with water and form old soil and wind-blown spores. Stream water, waterfowl and watershed drainage can bring all the above into the pond. Next rooted submerged vegetation arrives via primarily waterfowl manure and fish hatchery and or delivery water - as seeds and plant fragments. Most everything that nature delivers as early growing higher plants are common, early, fast / rapid colonizers and usually end up being nuisance species. To have some natural competition against the nuisance species, IMO it is best to introduce selected, better, and slower growing beneficial plants as shallow shoreline plants and submerged species. Past threads discuss many of these common aquatic species. Species will vary somewhat based on region of the country, endemic species, and plant growing zones.

A search through the Section of Balance of Plants in the Environment will provides many of the previous threads about beneficial plants. There should be a thread in Common Pond Q&A (Archives) about beneficial pond plants. Maybe soon?
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=15&page=1

Plant discussions;
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=212891#Post212891

What to look for?
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=168238#Post168238