Tropical Marginal and Bog Plants

Text Box: All taro varieties will tolerate partial shade. Pictures above Hilo Beauty.

Text Box: Tropical marginal and bog plants are considered annual plants just like your bedding plants that you purchase in the spring for your flower beds in zones where it freezes. You must bring them indoors if you want to over winter them some of them make excellent house plants. Below are some examples of tropical marginal plants. Most of the plants shown on this page will grow in partial shade. To winter over your tropical water plants, you can bring them indoors on a patio or place them in a basement. Submerge them in a smaller body of water or you can just keep them very wet. Be sure they will get sunshine or at least some sunlight during the day. Do not feed them during the winter months. As soon as the water temperatures are warm enough to put them back in the pond or wherever you previously had them outside, then you can start feeding them again.

Text Box: Blue Bell, can be grown outside of the pond in a container, just keep the soil wet.

Text Box: Red bog lily on the left, White bog Lily, on the right and, will grow outside the pond as long as the roots are kept very wet or if placed in at least one or two inches of water over the top of the container.