Hornleaf is a rootless aquatic plant that thrives in still or stagnant water, where it improves water quality. The water temperature does not play an important role. So the horn leaf is well suited for garden ponds.
Horn leaf purifies the water
How do you plant a plant without roots?
The Hornblatt is not planted but simply placed in the pond. There it sinks a little by itself or floats directly on the water surface. It absorbs all the nutrients it needs directly from the water via root-like extensions and forms plenty of oxygen from them. This is particularly interesting when fish live in the pond.
The horn leaf grows rapidly and clarifies the water as long as it is sufficiently supplied. When it has done its job well, it sinks to the bottom and decomposes there. As a result, the pond silts up easily.
There are still some horn leaf plants that clean the water again, but the effect wears off over time. You can prevent this cycle by limiting the spread of the horn leaf in good time. If necessary, they fish off superfluous plants and prune those left in the pond.
Does the Hornblatt fit in every pond?
If the water quality in your garden pond is already good or very good, then you don't actually need a horn leaf at all. On the contrary, it could even harm your pond, at least if it is nutrient-poor at the same time. Because if the horn leaf does not get enough nutrients, it sinks to the bottom and decomposes there. This leads to an increasing siltation of the pond, without you having any benefit from the horn leaf.
If your garden pond suffers from large amounts of filamentous algae, then it also makes no sense to add horn leaf there. It would clump together with the thread algae and thereby suffocate. Fish off the thread algae as well as possible before you put the horn leaf in the pond, then it can do its job well there.
The essentials in brief:
- evergreen
- no root formation
- free swimming
- hardy
- water-improving
- oxygenating
- easy-care
tips
Do not plant the horn leaf in the bottom of the pond, because it has no roots. Instead, it absorbs nutrients directly from the water via root-like extensions.