Contents
Introduction
Choosing Water Lilies
Planting Water Lilies
Fish
Over Wintering
Problems and Solutions |
Choosing Water lilies
It is important to keep the scale of your water garden in mind when choosing
your water lilies. While it is possible to grow larger lilies in small pots
to stunt them, it is like growing forest trees for foundation plants. Possible,
but not very satisfactory.
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A tiny pond overgrown with too many, much larger water lilies.
(Can you see the pond?) |
| The same tiny pond with two miniature water lilies. |
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Water lilies come in more then just different
colors. Their natural size varies enormously. The shape, size and number
of the petals varies too.
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One medium sized 'Sulphurea' crowded into a 24 inch tub. |
A small 'Chromatella' in a tub. |
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One point to keep in mind is that the blooms usually only open bankers hours,
10 am. to 3 pm. and each bud opens 3 days in a row. (If you work, a 'pond
cam' makes lots of sense! Or you might try night blooming tropical water
lilies but these are all very large.)
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'James Brydon' , a most beautiful small to medium sized hardy water lily
which requires only 4 hours of full sun to flower. |
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