Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia aurea) with floating ring

Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia aurea) Pond Plant

Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia aurea) is a bright, low-growing perennial pond plant that creates a beautiful golden carpet of foliage around the edges of your water garden. Also known for its trailing growth habit, Creeping Jenny can spread over rocks, logs and the surface of the water, adding a splash of cheerful colour to your pond.

With small yellow flowers and attractive golden-green foliage, it is an excellent choice for pond edges, shallow water and floating pond rings. When grown in a floating ring, its trailing growth can create cover and shelter for small fish and other pond life.

Why you'll love Creeping Jenny

• Beautiful golden-green trailing foliage
• Produces delicate small yellow flowers
• Perennial pond plant
• Suitable for full sun to part shade
• Ideal for shallow water between approximately 5–15cm deep
• Excellent cover for fish when grown in a floating pond ring
• Can spread across rocks, logs and the water's surface
• Low-growing, reaching approximately 10cm high
• Can spread to approximately 40cm wide
• Suitable for ponds, water bowls and container water gardens
• Edible
• Easy to grow and establish

Where to grow Creeping Jenny

Creeping Jenny is a versatile plant for the shallow edges of ponds and water gardens. It can be planted in water approximately 5–15cm deep and is equally happy growing with its foliage above the water.

It performs well in full sun through to part shade. Plant it around rocks and logs for a natural trailing effect, or grow it in a floating pond ring to allow the foliage to spread across the surface of your pond.

Creeping Jenny as a pond cover plant

One of the best features of Creeping Jenny is its spreading growth habit. When grown in a floating pond ring, the foliage can trail across the water surface to create natural cover and shelter for small fish and pond invertebrates.

It can also soften the edges of rocks, logs and pond containers, helping create a more natural-looking water garden.

Creeping Jenny and pond water

Like many healthy aquatic and marginal plants, Creeping Jenny uses nutrients as it grows. Including a variety of plants in your pond helps create a more diverse and balanced aquatic environment.

For the best results, combine Creeping Jenny with a selection of oxygenating, floating, flowering and marginal pond plants, giving your pond different layers of plant growth.

Creeping Jenny flowers

During its growing season, Creeping Jenny produces small yellow flowers that complement its bright foliage beautifully.

The combination of golden foliage and yellow flowers makes it a particularly attractive choice if you want to add colour to a pond without relying solely on large flowering plants.

Growing Creeping Jenny

Creeping Jenny is an easy-to-grow pond plant, but it can become vigorous in the right conditions. Regular trimming can help maintain the shape and prevent it from spreading further than you'd like.

Trim back excess growth as required to keep the plant looking neat and encourage fresh growth.

Creeping Jenny Plant Information

Plant type: Perennial pond plant
Botanical name: Lysimachia aurea
Origin: Europe
Position: Full sun to part shade
Flowers: Small yellow flowers
Water depth: Approximately 5–15cm
Height: Approximately 10cm
Width: Up to approximately 40cm
Foliage: Grows above the water
Oxygenating: No
Edible: Yes
Growth habit: Low-growing and spreading
Best for: Pond edges, shallow water, floating rings, fish cover and adding colour to the water garden

Grow Creeping Jenny in a floating pond ring

Our floating pond rings make it easy to position Creeping Jenny directly on the surface of your pond. As it grows, the trailing foliage can spread outwards, creating a beautiful natural display and providing cover for pond life.

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