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Tue, Jun 7, 11 at 14:17
| its been a few months since i started this venture with water gardening and since my plants are starting to grow im pleased to say its not just a tub of water anymore:) my lily is putting up its 6th bud in two weeks! my pickerel rush and water hyacinth have both bloomed and my black water iris is growing! but my waterlily is stealing the show :)
THE VERY BEGINNING
ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO FINALLY PUT IT IN THE GROUND MAYBE AT THE END OF THE YEAR WHILE EVERYTHING IS DORMANT. |
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| Your pond is so fantastic. I love your plants and I think that you have so kind heart with growing such water plants. I can't understand, how do you grow the water hyacinths. Mine is so, so poor. When I bought it, it was the last one, and pretty. But now, when I put it to the water, its leaves just rot.. It was about 12 cm wide when buying, and now, only 5 cm... But yours are mooooree beautiful than mine. How are your Lotuses growing? |
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- Posted by chubbypoptart none (shelbysheeneart@yahoo.com) on Tue, Jun 7, 11 at 16:34
thankyou. its something i really enjoy doing. when i bought the water hyacinth they were prety good sized and started dying off all the leaves started rotting and i thought they were goners so in an effort to save them i started pulling off al the dead leaves. whenever i saw a leaf browning i pulled it off. they bloomed once so far. and then started putting off baby shoots.  im slightly worried about my lotus the caterpillars are getting ahold of them! >:( they are puttinh off aerials here and there and still sending up new leaves so maybe they will recover. |
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| Hi Have found only 3 things that stop hyacinth from growing. Temps below 50, too heavy water movement. and drying out. I grow them in both a pond and a marsh garden as well as a. tub I find them to be the best water filter but I have to remove at least a bushel a week from the pond. There are at least 3 kinds varying mostly in size IME.There does seem to be a difference in the flower color. gary |
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