Many different species of aquatic plants planted in biological pools have one common name which is pondweed. They may be broadleaved, fully underwater, or only with floating leaves, thin-leaved and even combinations of thin-leaved and broad-leaved. A huge diversity! Pondweed, Potamogeton in scientific, is a genus of worldwide distribution, has representatives on all continents [...]

Coimbra Agrarian School has an ongoing research project to promote the conservation of endangered rare aquatic plants in Baixo Mondego and Dunas de Mira in the center of the country. “Charcas de Noé” aims to “actively contribute to increasing knowledge of the distribution and conservation status of rare and endangered aquatic plants in Baixo [...]

In autumn some of our customers are concerned with the water lilies. The same plants that enchant us with their splendid beauty during the summer no longer show many leaves, no flowers but many yellow leaves. At this time of year the plants are preparing to hibernate, huddling at the bottom of the lake [...]

For more than two decades there have been biological pools in Portugal. Not surprisingly, some of the older ones deserve a new face or any kind of rejuvenation. Even if the biological treatment system works well, there may be reasons for rigorous pruning of plants, creating a new entrance or different access, a waterfront [...]

There are frogs everywhere! Little frogs, even very small frogs still with a little tail, remnant of the time of her previous aquatic life as a tadpole. Late summer is the time for the next generation of frogs and there are people who think that the population of frogs in a biological pool will [...]