Pond Plants For Small Containers

[Mosaic]

I'm Ok at gardening but don't know the names of many plants. We get a lot of rain and I like the look of the small container ponds shown in many permaculture-type websites and magazines. I wonder if anyone has done this successfully, and if so which plants they used? (simple words please)
Water, we have. In great huge puddles. Squishy lawn. Frogs n newts. But I've never made a 'proper' pond.

[woofgang]

I have tried the small container pond many times and, while they look nice, I have found that they aways become the home to many mosquitos who then seem to want to feed on me. Again only my experience but the only way I have found to deal with it is to have a "proper" pond and have fish in it which will eat the mosquito larvae. I have got goldfish in mine, received wisdom is that they will eat the spawn and tadpoles of native species, but until we got the redleg virus here, we did well for frogs.

[Chipchopper]

Two miniature plants that may be suitable and worth researching are : Yellow Water fringe, and frogbit, ideal for small ponds. both are native to the UK.

[woofgang]

Regarding the mozzie issue, I found this stuff on amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000AH849?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00
Its a biological mozzie control, I did my research and it seems that it is harmless to pets and wildlife as its a block containing a bacteria that only kills mozzies. The write ups in america sound good, apparently they put it in livestock drinking troughs over there as well as garden ponds...anyway i am giving it a try and will report back.