Ultra Violet: The Summer Videos
The 2008 Best New Waterlily is a remarkable plant. Ultra Violet has grown so quickly and within weeks of fertilizing has big pads and up to 8 buds each day on the surface here in Ohio. I am using Ken Landon fertilizer 7802. The pads and flowers as you will see are just incredible. The [...]
New Salmon Lobelia & Landon Fertilizer
Salmon Lobelia: New Pink Lobelia that blooms from June until just before frost. Hardy to Zone 4. The plant has been given plenty of room to grow but have only reached about 14″ tall. Slightly shorter than the cardinal lobelia but should be comparable perhaps as it gets older. The second part of the video [...]
Bull’s Eye : A Direct Hit for Red Tropical Waterlilies
Nymphaea Bull’s Eye: Developed by Florida Aquatics this new waterlily is the most correct Red a tropical day bloomer has achieved until this point. Often hot pink or rosey this adult plant is Red and when very mature nearly maroon. From Florida Aquatic: The flower color is the real eye-catcher on this lily. The [...]
FOXFIRE: The amazing tropical waterlily. Can bloom 3 days and up to 36hrs without closing.
The amazing Foxfire, loved by most who have seen her was developed by Craig Presnell, one of the parents being Ampla, a large species waterlily. Grown very large in the south the adult plants can get 15 feet across easily but only after many months of growing, lots of sunlight, and about a 20 gallon [...]
2010 Anticipation & Excitment
This morning I got online and at 10:32AM got an email which said simply “Go here…. NOW>>>>>” with a link attached. With the click of a mouse, I saw it was true. From this day forward, Hardy Waterlilies will NEVER again stand as a slightly less impressive plant in the shadows of amazing vibrant tropical waterlilies. “Wanvisa” [...]
TUBER Video, Tim Davis Explains -Tropicals, Hardies, Dividing, and a lot more
Tim Davis recently tested a new video camera we hope we will be sharing all sorts of information with you over the coming years. Since there are few water lilies to look at in April in Ohio we sent the camera to Tim in Houston Texas where he got some clips of the 2010 Nelson’s [...]
Almost Black and other Deep Reds love the North.
Deep red waterlilies like, Nymphaea Almost Black (left), Nymphaea Black Princess, and Nymphaea Burgundy Princess (photo right) all perform well as flowers up above the Mason Dixon line. The deeper the Red the more sun bleaching that occurs and if you live really far south like my friend Tim Davis, the dark reds are [...]
Did you see a Waterlily or Lotus
Here is the video Ryan put together for us last summer. I thought it might be helpful for some new water gardners this spring. Lotus are tall and stand high out of the water and for the most part lilies pads grow to just about the surface and sit there with flowers inches out of [...]
Buy Waterlilies and Pond Plants in 2010! (Part 1)
By Zac deGarmeaux (Pond Megastore) Buying Pond Plants and Waterlilies online from vendors and nurseries usually provides a much larger selection than choosing from smaller local nurseries. At Pond Megastore, we offer developed full grown water lilies, some vendors only offer Tubers or Rhizomes. Other companies just lay rhizomes in warm water allowing them to sprout [...]
Christmas Delivery Special …….. Nymphaea “Infinite Love”
Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings. Much to prepare for in 2010, the beginning of a new decade and our full second year here. On December 12th 2009 Water-Garden-Blog.com turned 1 year old! How could I miss that I was going to do a special post that day and forgot. On the good news front [...]
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