slow growing pond plants?

can anyone suggest any slow growing pond plants that I could put in our small wildlife pond that will clean the stagnant water?

 

try to find miniature water lily , they are ideally for small pond of water feature

 

hmmm, you have a good point Armandii. The water was ok until the local family of ducks started using it as their swimming pool

 

If duck are using it for swimming that means they will eat every plant you will put in there , at this point try to use snails , rain water and duck weeds to feed the duck

 

Rusty? I'm only 38, I don't think I've seized up just yet There are so many ducks out here that it'd be impossible to eradicate them all. Our fish pond is netted to keep them out.

 

the "pond" is half of a barrel, cut longways. it used to be bigger and made with a pond liner, but that split somehow (ducks?) I'll get a pic tomorrow.

 

hubby suspected as much. now we've got another headache! it was bad enough stopping them from getting in the fish pond, they kept ripping up the net! we ended up criss crossing bamboo canes in the net to stop them getting in. looked awful but worked. now we have a new net on and as yet they havent tried to get in.

 

oh poop. I forgot *runs outside with camera

 

OMG *blonde moment* I have a pic on my pc of the wildlife pond..........with the duck family in it!

 

The flag irises used to be in the wildlife pond when it was bigger, but hubby used them to fill in the gap left after replacing the liner with a large barrel cut in half.