Every healthy pond is a small, living world — and helping you build one is the whole reason we exist.
We're Lincolnshire Pond Plants, and we grow the plants that turn a patch of water into somewhere life wants to be. This is who we are, how we got here, and the nature we hope you'll welcome into your own garden.
It started in a spare room
Like a lot of good things, the business began almost by accident. David, then a computer science student, was asked to help clear out a lake — and rather than throw away the oxygenating plants that came out of it, he sold them online. The response convinced him there was a nursery to be built.
His mother, Dawn, came on board to run the greenhouses, and the very first seeds were raised in her spare room and back garden. From those beginnings, Lincolnshire Pond Plants was established, with one aim: to grow the best aquatic and marginal plants we could.
A decade on, we've swapped the spare room for a 15-acre nursery — but the spirit hasn't changed.
A family nursery, through and through
We're still family-run, and we still answer the phone ourselves. Dawn looks after the nursery — propagating, potting and planting the thousands of pond and bog plants that move through our greenhouses each year. David built the business from that first online sale and keeps it growing.
Ask us a question and you're talking to the people who actually grow the plants and care whether your pond thrives. We take real pride in a personal service — easy to promise, hard to keep at scale, which is exactly why we've held on to it.
Rooted in the Lincolnshire Wolds
Our nursery spreads across a 15-acre site in the Lincolnshire Wolds, where plants are raised on-site under glass and hardened off outdoors — home-grown, not bought in and badged up. We've also opened a shop in Boston, just off the A16 and open seven days a week, stocked with the largest selection of aquatic and marginal plants in the region. Can't make it to us? Our full range ships nationwide by mail order.
What we grow
A good pond is built in layers — and we grow plants for every one of them.
We're particularly fond of British natives — Marsh Marigold, Yellow Flag Iris, Water Mint, Purple Loosestrife, Meadowsweet, Ragged-Robin, Bogbean and Flowering Rush among them — because they're the plants our wildlife evolved alongside.
A pond is a whole world
Here's the thing we never tire of saying: a pond is the single best thing you can add to a garden for wildlife.
Within a season, marginal plants give frogs, toads and newts a safe way in and out and a place to breed. Submerged stems become nurseries for dragonfly and damselfly larvae, which live underwater before climbing a reed to take flight. Flowering marginals feed bees and butterflies; birds drink and bathe; even the quiet workers — pond snails, water beetles — arrive on their own once the conditions are right.
It's a world you can watch unfold, and the reason our Chelsea stand always invites people to lean in and ask, “What can you see?”
Dress it with the right plants and you're not just decorating — you're building a habitat.
Dressing your pond, whatever its size
There's no such thing as a pond too small to matter. We grow for all of them.
Tell us the size, the depth and what you're hoping for, and we'll help you choose plants that will truly thrive — and earn their keep.
Award-winning — but still hands in the water
Gold at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival in 2022, and a Gold Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 for our pond plant display in the Great Pavilion.
Awards are lovely, but they're really a measure of the same thing we care about every ordinary day: healthy, well-grown plants, shown with a bit of love. The medals go on the wall; the work goes on in the greenhouses.
Bring us your pond
Whether you're planting your first patio bowl or restoring a country lake, we'd love to help you fill it with life.
