“What are the benefits of floating wetlands?”

What is a floating wetland? A special floating panel with carefully selected aquatic plants growing on it. The panel can be positioned anywhere in the dam to enhance the waterbody visually and also helps to improve the over all water quality!

Improves the visual value of the pond

People love the idea of building ponds for many reasons as the added ‘natural’ feature can have benefits for mental health, encouraging wildlife to use the water or for creating overall ‘good’ vibes for the owner.

More plants can mean less algae and aquatic weed

Ever heard of aquaponics? Basically, over time pond water begins to accumulate nutrients. Nutrient inputs can be sourced in a range of ways; from any leaves that have fallen from a tree into the water and are allowed to sink to the bottom to waste from any fish or wildlife that visits the pond. These nutrients are perfect food for aquatic weed and algae which take the nutrient up and use it to grow. The addition of floating wetlands with all of your favourite aquatic plants growing on top means that they too are taking up nutrient from the water and can eventually out compete the aquatic weed and algae!

Create a home for wildlife

In nature, many animals such as fish and birds rely on plants for breeding and protection from predators. If you provide this home for the wildlife, you are likely to begin finding you get more and more visits from them, NAWW! What’s not to love about that?!

If you are interested in adding floating wetlands to your pond and take advantage of all the benefits, contact us today to learn more!