sissys pond

[sissy]

I have 23 more babies I just took from the mom banana .There are 8 babies that cannot be taken because they are sucker bananas .Means they have no roots

 

[sissy]

first water lily bloomed after a long night of severe thunderstorms and it is my niece and nephews birthday and they are twins .They were born on friday the 13th and both are a success Chris is a male nurse and Missy is a nurse now headed for a new job at a hospital in Tenn. at University hospital ,she was offered a job there after her 3 years at Roanoke Hospital in VA .

 

[addy1]

Very nice sissy!

 

[sissy]

I have never seen one bloom so far out of the water .I guess i lost my lotus plants .Not sure why since they were in the basement for the winter and looked fine when I put them back outside

 

[callingcolleen1]

Awesome Sissy ! How did you get the duckweed to grow without the fish eating it all?

 

[sissy]

that is in the lily pond and there are no fish in there .A little miracle grow and you have plenty to throw into the pond for the fish .They go nuts when I throw it in

 

[callingcolleen1]

I have duckweed in house and I sometimes this fish some too. It gets all eaten outside.

 

[sissy]

second lily not sure when it opened the first time since it has been a busy week .I just got done with all the yard work

 

[callingcolleen1]

WOW Sissy your place staring to look like a banana plantation! Everything looks super awesome and love the big bananas!

 

[sissy]

I actually planted 4 of them by my back decks and the rest of the babies i gave to fellow ponders that live around here .I just took them to our garden pond meeting and they were all spoken for .I gave with each one a description of how to take care of them and how to over winter them and how to fertilize them .I am up to 27 babies given away

 

[callingcolleen1]

So you just cut them down, to how far above the base of stem? I am going to chop mine down so I can fit into greenhouse over winter.

Fat baby Rio needs another hug before I rush off to work..

 

[sissy]

No you have to move every thing away from the roots to find if it has roots and cut the baby free from the mother plant gently .Then you pull all the bottom leaves off and only leave top leaves on .With 1 you are taking in just cut most of the leaves off and wrap the pot to keep the root warm You let the frost hit the banana first to kill off most of the leaves and remove them but make sure the roots do not freeze .

 

[sissy]

more banana pics and lotus pod Wanted to show how big the stems are and what you have to do once a month and fertilize and another hyacinth flowered and seeds again on my palm and so far out of 50 seeds from last year only got 2 that grew

 

[sissy]

another new shoot of banana

 

[Tula]

Everything looks so lush and beautiful...wish it could stay like this year round.