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Karalyn
My Weather
| | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 04:44 pm: |   
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This is my first tropical of this year.I haven't grown tropicals for quite a few years.
So this has been a fun summer collecting these.
The red lily is Froebeli and the Blue lily is Trop. Rhonda Kay. The photo looks like the two lilies are at the same height, they are not.
The red one is on its last run and the blue one is up 12 inches out of the water and the other day it was under water! It grew fast!
Karalyn Idaho Zone 6 |
Beverly
My Weather
| | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 11:31 pm: |
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Hi Karalyn,
Those are beautiful water lilies. I have such a problem here with mosquitos that I have decided to enjoy the photos of water lilies instead of trying to grow them. Thank You for sharing these photos!
Beverly
SW Missouri-USA
Beverly
- SW Missouri,
Zone "2"
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Tootsie
My Weather
My Garden
My Time
| | Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 11:51 pm: |
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Hi Karalyn,
Very pretty lilies! I was sent a trop. called lavender lace. My pond is now 12 ft. deep, but the water will be much too cold to sink it. I was told to either bring lily in the house, put in a dark place for spring, or to put it into an aquarium with a light on it. For some reason I am not getting my pics posted?
Tootsie
- Michigan,
Zone "5/6"
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Calvinchi
My Garden
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 09:53 am: |
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Congratulations! Enjoy the lively water flower colors. I hope I will grow them too next year when I get my pond up. Thanks for sharing!
Calvinchi
- Ontario,
Zone "5"
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Karalyn
My Weather
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 11:54 am: |
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Tootsie, Lavender Lace is a pretty one.
You can store these trop. lilies. I have in the past.
1st-Either store the whole pot in a plastic bag in your basement or cool place.
2nd-Take out the tuber and store it in some moist sand or peat in a plastic baggie.
3rd-Bring in pot and put in water and store by a sunny window or plant light.
Also, trops can have babies, and those babies I have babied in my south facing living room with floor to ceiling windows. I have too many tropical plants now to do that, if I'm lucky I'll have a greenhouse built by late fall.
I already have the 12 ft pit and if the vault doesn't get built for my filters for my koi pond, then I just might rig something up down in that pit. LOL
Don't know how yet, but I'll get my DS 15 to figure it out as he is the one that dug the pit that deep! Not with his bare hands, mind you, he used a new Holland Digger from Tates Rents. 
Karalyn Idaho Zone 6 |
Karalyn
My Weather
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 12:00 pm: |
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Hi Beverly, there is a way to combat the mosquitoes. I'll post that later.
Calvinchi that will be fun for you after you get your pond up and going.
There is also a new find on how to start tropical lilies earlier than before. It was posted on a wedsite dedicated to waterlily growing. I'll see if I can get the website's name. A couple in florida started it there are many famous people on there posting.
Such as Charles B.Thomas for one. Owner and hybridizer of waterlilies for Lily Pons Waterlilies. He comes from a long list of family hybridizers.
Karalyn Idaho Zone 6 |
Twrosz
My Weather
| | Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 11:27 pm: |
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With this summers very hot conditions, I wish I would have grown a blue tropical! Too bad there's no blues among the hardy water lilies!
Terry
Twrosz
- Alberta,
Zone "3"
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