Lotus Seedling with Tony Moore
Today Tony Moore, creator of such new waterlilies as the incredible Ruby Star and Black Cherry shares a lotus seedling growing out of the seed. Enjoy in full screen.
Jack Wood – Great Red Waterlily
Jack Wood has been a popular red tropical waterlily for years. Recently outshined by ‘Charlies’ Pride’ by charels winch and then ‘Bull’s Eye’ by Florida Aquatics. Jack wood remains an incredible red bloomer. Take a look at all the blooms on the plant in the second half of todays video blog. This waterlily is currently [...]
Waterily Seedlings
Today Mike Giles shows us many of his new hardy blue and purple waterlilies. These intersubgeneric waterlilies, Hardy x Tropical crosses are many of the first from North America. Mike has been crossing them since 2005 and these are the first ever videos of the plants. Beginning in 2012 PondMegastore.com will have exclusive sales rights [...]
Facebook Fix
We did fix the facebook link on the sidebar. Please Join over 6000 people on our facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/PondMegastore There are constant water garden photo contests in which you can win free pond plants or waterlilies of your choosing. The new PondMegastore.com is also still being updated with new help and resource pages. New features [...]
Purple Satin, The Purple Hardy Waterlily by Mike Giles
We hope these waterlilies will some day soon be available from PondMegastore.com. Purple Satin or one of the many new purple and blue hardy brother and sister plants created by Mike Giles. Last week I went and visited Mike on his farm and documented the first video of the Purple and Blue hardy waterlilies. All [...]
Rhapsody In White
One of now four Ken Landon flavoviren crosses we are selling. This one is already sold out after just 48 days of availability this year. We will have plenty more for 2012. I love the multiple tall white flowers over chocolate pads. I will post some new videos soon.
Chinese Lotus update: Day 17
Day 17, Three of the new Chinese Lotus, ‘Drunken Concubine out of Bath’ (left), ‘Red Lantern’ (right), and ‘Dasa Jin’ (back). Each is growing faster as return to warm days in the 80s and lows [...]
Lotus (nelumbo) 2011
Planting Spring Lotus … order soon most vendors will be out in the next 3-6 weeks for the year. Our lotus tubers ship with excellent growing tips. Only Lotus and water hawthorne are shipped as tubers. Our waterlilies and marginals arrive as adult sized plants usually with buds. Lotus can be blooming in just 6 [...]
NEWS
New spring videos are in production now. Later this week we begin rolling out Pond Megastore 3.0 with new improvements. The site will take a few week for all the new features but look forward to much easier navigation, many new pond products, much improved information on plants and planting information. The new site we [...]
Wanvisa price, IWGS verge of a comeback or extinction?
UPDTE 5/16/11: Tamara Kilbane, grower of the International Waterlily Competition plants in Raleigh, NC, has offered her observations and tips for enhanced blooming of Nymphaea ‘Wanvisa’. “As far as my observations of ‘Wanvisa’ – it is a very fast growing plant and a good bloomer. We saw an average of 2-4 blooms open each day [...]
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