Creating a Pond Ecosystem
Hey Friends, I hope you are enjoying another season with your backyard pond. When you bring a water feature into the landscape, you add more than aesthetic value, you actually...
At Pond Megastore Nurseries, we believe a pond should feel alive. It should bring beauty, peace, color, and that little spark of wonder that makes you stop for a moment and just take it in. For more than twenty years, we have grown, tested, and enjoyed exceptional Pond Plants in real water gardens before offering them to our customers. We are especially passionate about outstanding Water Lilies, including exciting new cultivars, along with carefully selected plants that help ponds look fuller, healthier, and more beautiful.
Our collection includes more than just water lilies. We offer Floating Pond Plants like Water Hyacinth, oxygenating favorites like Vallisneria and Hornwort, and strong pond-edge classics like Pickerel Rush. We also carry carefully chosen Native Pond Plants and Flowering Pond Plants that add color, support pollinators, and create a more natural, balanced water garden. Every plant we sell is selected for beauty, vigor, and true garden performance, because the right plant should do more than simply survive. It should thrive and make you excited to walk outside and see your pond again.
Over the years, we have proudly served home water gardeners, specialty garden centers, botanical gardens, and high-end water garden designers looking for plants they can trust. That trust means everything to us. It means healthy plants, honest growing advice, and varieties we would be proud to grow in our own ponds. Plants have a funny way of telling the truth fast. When they are truly excellent, they show it. That is the standard we bring to every water lily and pond plant we offer.
NONE of the listings for seeds on Amazon or Ebay or Etsy are Blue Lotus. Every image is either an incorrect waterlily or photoshopped Lotus image. All of them. Yes, you are being sold a seed, it will probably sprout but not the plant that is Historically known as the Blue Lotus of the Nile. No Lotus are blue, so what is that Flower?
Matt takes us through what we need to know about planning a natural earth bottom pond including planting oxygenating grasses, shelf plants, and large flowering waterlilies you can see from afar! None of our reccomendations will overtake your pond.
We know a standing bucket of water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes. But what if I tell you a living watergarden elimates the population of mosquitoes for the whole yard? How? Matt explains in this excellent video and 2 or 3 of the reasons you may have accomplished without even knowing why it happened!
A hardy water lily has a different root system than the annual or tropical lily. They can survive cold winters under the ice but also need a much wider container to grow and flower properly. Follow these easy steps!
Please never wait to address an issue, even the smallest concern. We are requiring issues with delivery be reported in the first 24 hours so we know they are attended to and the issue lies with delivery or before. If at any time after arrival plants show signs of stress please contact us immedietly so we can solve an issue before it is too detrimental to correct.
Most plants ship only in spring & summer. Only a few plants can ship outside these times over winter. Schools and labs buy plants all year, check with us by email if you need something in the off season like oxygenating plants, floating plants, water hawthorn, or one of just a few shelf pond plants that dont go into dormancy to see if available before placing orders.
We ship Live plants Monday - Wednesday each week until June 1. After June 1 we usually only ship live plants on Mondays and Tuesdays. Your order must be in the previous weekday by 9:30 AM Eastern Time in order to be processed and prepped for shipping the next day. Orders placed after 9:30am Eastern on the last preparation day of the week (Tuesday or Wednesday) will then be held until the following week for shipping. We aim for plants to arrive within 2 or at most 3 days of shipping. Depending on the quantity of tadpoles they may be one or two days in transit.
Transit does not account for the processing time which could be 1 day or as many as 5 in hot summer weather when we ship only at the beginning of each week.
Non live goods usually ship Monday - Wednesday. Many plant items ship from the nursery with the plant order (like fertilizer). Many non-plant items like fish food ship from our warehouse and ship separate from the other items on the order. Live fish and Bulk Tadpole order ship Monday-Thursday each week. Please see out videos on how to acclimate Fish, Tadpoles, and Live Plants before ever placing the order so that things go smooth and simple for you and the live products!
Planting Our Water Lilies on Arrival Water Lilies arrive as Live pond plants and must be kept damp on all side until
Hey Friends, I hope you are enjoying another season with your backyard pond. When you bring a water feature into the landscape, you add more than aesthetic value, you actually...
Hello Friends, I have great news to report to you today regarding the Patrick A. Nutt Scholarship. With guidance from Longwood Garden, Paula Biles, Kelly Billing and Zac deGarmeaux, along...
Hello Friends, I met Ao Weerada in 2013, early in her waterlily hybridizing career/hobby. Her knowledge and enthusiasm is amazing! She is a well known grower of waterlilies, especially for...
No More Dirty Water! Some quick and easy tips to help you get your pond water "Sparkling Clean and Clear"! An easy way to clean the water in your pond...
Planting Our Water Lilies on Arrival Water Lilies arrive as Live pond plants and must be kept damp on all side until
Hey Friends, I hope you are enjoying another season with your backyard pond. When you bring a water feature into the landscape, you add more than aesthetic value, you actually...
Hello Friends, I have great news to report to you today regarding the Patrick A. Nutt Scholarship. With guidance from Longwood Garden, Paula Biles, Kelly Billing and Zac deGarmeaux, along...
Hello Friends, I met Ao Weerada in 2013, early in her waterlily hybridizing career/hobby. Her knowledge and enthusiasm is amazing! She is a well known grower of waterlilies, especially for...
No More Dirty Water! Some quick and easy tips to help you get your pond water "Sparkling Clean and Clear"! An easy way to clean the water in your pond...