This beautiful marginal pond plant produces clumps of attractive shapely leaves followed by elegant spikes of white flowers in late summer a slightly shorter variety of pickerel hyacinth the blooms are attractive to bees and butterflies and plants are also a valuable egg45laying site for dragonflies in the uk with their neat habit and slender flower stems pickerel hyacinths are ideal planted at the margins of a pond in shallow water submerged up to 12cm 4053441 pontederia co