spring flowers

[rebelangel_3733]

Awesome! and gorgeous! Wish mine would bloom... but enjoying yours instead thanks!

 

[j.w]

Wish I could smell it all addy and see it in person

 

[addy1]

This lotus bloom is over my head, almost 6 feet up above ground.

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This is a different lotus

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[j.w]

Wow I didn't realize they got that big. So very pretty both of them :regular_waving_emot

 

[taherrmann4]

Addy are these in your bog or a separate container of some sort?

 

[addy1]

Addy are these in your bog or a separate container of some sort?

I have five lotus plants in a 300 gallon rubbermaid tank. Each lotus is in one of those rope handle buckets. They are planted in kitty litter clay, around a 1.5 feet under water to top of clay. It varies as the water level drops or raises dependent of rain. If it gets too low I add some water.

The first picture, they look ground level, but with our slope the near edge is ground level the back edge is exposed completely. I need to build insulation for the tank before winter so the lotus can overwinter in the tank.

When I planted them, put in 1/4 cup of osmocote under the clay, have added some osmocote off and on over the summer, maybe a teaspoon full (used a piece of pvc to get a hole in the clay then dropped in the osmocote) and have added some lily tabs off and on.

I have one lotus in the pond in clay, it is not doing as well, but it is growing.

I will have a ton of hardie lotus seeds once they ripen if anybody would like some.

 

[taherrmann4]

Addy thank you and I would take some seeds this fall if you don't mind.

 

[sissy]

I didn't take a pic of the big sign that said do not disturb, property of the New Orleans plant society right in the front of the plant. LOL

DARN plant society what right do they have to tease people LOL

 

[addy1]

Addy thank you and I would take some seeds this fall if you don't mind.

It is your job to remind me! and tell me which flower, or some of each

 

[addy1]

96 11:20 am 128 heat index, but the lilies are happy

almost black hardy

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Georgia peach

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neat dragon fly

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[addy1]

I was out at 6am getting things watered, went to move this little garden seat, found this huge spider. Looks like a wolf spider, I just walked away. the wheel is around 3 inches in size.

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[fishin4cars]

Every time you post a picture of that pink it makes me want one even more. That is one pretty water lily!

 

[addy1]

Every time you post a picture of that pink it makes me want one even more. That is one pretty water lily!

I have four, I am sure by the end of season or start of next I will have extra tubers, they were babies just a month or so ago, little starts.

They are non pond hogs, can do well in a small pond even a large pot.

Yuck just went up to 130 heat index..............it bounces dependent on the humidity reading on my weather station, but the temp is just climbing climbing climbing 96 now

 

[rebelangel_3733]

Yup addy its suppose to "cool down" here in nebr to a cool temp of 96 today...lol! of course that's not including our heat index!! I think I'll keep my wood chuck that seems to have taken up residency here in our neighborhood, until the lil rascal finds our garden or messes with any of our plants!

 

[addy1]

We have a resident ground hog, that sucker is huge! Wanders our back field all the time.