Bloomers!

[adavisus]

ah, a red hardy waterlily decides to pop

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[adavisus]

Whoa, a hotty of a pink pops...

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[addy1]

You have beautiful lilies. I hope mine are 1/2 as nice lol and great photos also

 

[Pond Boy]

Nice pics thanks for sharing...

 

[adavisus]

Elegant shape and colour caught the eye today

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[j.w]

It looks good enough to eat................very pretty.........belongs on top of a cake............I think I'm having some kind of a sweet craving, forgive me

 

[adavisus]

You might be cabin crazy for a buzz from nectar JW, oh, this one would make you want to slap yourself upside the head, its so fragrant

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[j.w]

Cool, can you smell them just by walking by them or do you have to actually get your nose close to them and do you have a lot of bruises on your face from the continual slapping :bowdown:

 

[addy1]

So pretty can't wait to see mine bloom

 

[Nova]

I hope my lilies survive breeding season. My koi have been spawning on the container thrashing through the stems and leaves. I have found all but a couple leaves in my skimmer. After they lay eggs they go back to fight over who gets the eggs. The stems have been broken off at the bottom and the little stones on top of the planter are scattered all around the bottom of the pond. Too bad you can't teach the fish to clean up after themselves.

 

[adavisus]

Hi JW,
There are times when lotus fragrance wafts a hundred feet through the open windows in the morning, there is the definite possibility one could walk about with a glazed expression on the face, a dusting of pollen and umpteen bees getting uppity about stealing their stash if you got carried away

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[j.w]

Hey Andy that sounds heavenly. Hey are you the one that says one could just tie a rock to a lily and set it in your pond and it will grow well that way? I keep thinking I will try that if I ever get the initiative to get the old pots out and divide them :fish:

 

[adavisus]

No I'd certainly not suggest tossing lilies willy nilly into ponds attached to rocks.

If you know waterlilies well, in some circumstances it would work well.

If you do not know waterlilies well, you may devastate a pond or a lake tossing an unsuitable hybrid odorata or spatterdock to potentially become a long term liability

The moment you start flipping things into lakes, it does help if you know what you are doing or can do in future decades.

It's a common wheeze to plug such reckless ideas as tossing in fast growing lotus, odorata or cattails by folk who intend to bill big bucks in future years clearing choked ponds

Whenever you plant anything in a pond, you better be sure it is accessible and measured so you can be realistic in the knowledge as to what to expect in future

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[j.w]

Oh heavens no, not a lake or stream.........just thinking about what someone said once that you could weight down your lily tubers w/ a rock or whatever and not have to use soil or a pot in one's own liner pond. They said the fish poo would fertilize the plant so you would not have to add any extra like the tablets etc. That way the tubers would never have to be repotted. Comprende' my drift?

 

[adavisus]

Where you are dividing and sorting waterlilies, bare rooting and weighting a lily is an effective way to encourage it to develop feeder roots quicker, that's about all. Those feeder roots grow faster, bare root, but they are far more vulnerable to being grazed which would cripple it

On a pond where the fish ratio and grazing is low, humungous growth rates are possible on large growing lily varieties where they are growing bare root

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