Plant Suggestions For My Goblin In A Bath

Hi everyone, me again, back from the dead

So for the past year or so since I joined a pottery class, I've been working on a project for my garden. I bought a very small galvanised wash tub with the hope of just having an old cast iron pump sat beside it and then make this into a water feature.

Unfortunately I then had a mad idea and decided I would make a goblin sat in the bath and have so far constructed a pair of legs (my tutor said I'm really running before I can walk )

This is how it currently looks as of two weeks ago (the sweet woodruff is now tickling his toes) - the head is currently in the kiln I should add.


Anyway I'm stuck for planting in it. The tub is full of water and sat in a very shady corner of the garden and gets no direct sunlight. I have plants such as ferns, dogwoods and of course sweet woodruff growing quite happily nearby though. The bath is only 8" deep.

I had a look in the garden centre when I was last there and all the plants seem to be water lily's or iris' that need full sun or part shade. I bought a dutch rush years ago and as you can see it doesn't look well so I may move it to another water tank I have in the full sun.

Any advice will be appreciated

 

Hello JJ, Houttuynia cordata 'Chamaeleon' would grow in shade but maybe a bit 'brash' amongst the other plants? I'd go for Zantedeschia aethiopica or one of it's hybrids. They flower in shade here. It might need a bit of protection in winter but then so might the goblin

 

If you wanted something flatter-looking, how about mind-your-own-business? Easy enough to keep under control within the bath. Or you could just transfer some patches of moss and lichens onto the soil surface, and let those spread?

What's the goblin going to be doing with his hands? Or shouldn't I ask?

 

I haven't actually made the hand yet. I was going to make two gripping the side of the bath but you've got me thinking now

 

Thanks for the suggestions but i'm actually looking for pond plants that go in the bath that's full of water. Maybe I should have said that in my original post that wasn't very clear.

 

Houttuynia and Zantedeschia grow in water Other ideas....Lobelia: cardinalis Victoria or Queen Vic...red foliage and intensely red flower spikes, or Lobelia crosses with green leaves and soft pink flower spikes. Iris ensata..brief flowering but beautiful while it's there.

 

If you wanted something low-growing to cover the water surface - green bath foam effect - there are various floating aquatic plants that would do that in the summer months at least, e.g. frogbit, salvinia natans.