Native to North America and parts of Europe and Asia, cattails are an easy-growing aquatic perennial plant that feels right at home in wetlands and boggy soil. They add a bold vertical presence to ...

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Add a splash of natural beauty to ponds and other water features with these water garden plants. Some need to be planted in water, while others thrive in constantly wet soil on the edges of water ...

The plant: Where I grew up in Connecticut, cattails edged ponds where I’d watch salamanders gliding just under the water’s surface. Each fall, along with dried corn stalks and burnt-orange pumpkins, ...