Legislation to destroy Pond Owners, Builders, and Businesses
At last nights Saturday meeting IWGS executive director brought back chilling news fromhis NAPP (National Association of Pond Professionals) meeting in Georgia. The anti-business movement legislation is afoot across the US. In Texas, effective the first of 2011 a “white list” goes into action. At that time it will be illegal to own, sell, or [...]
Winter care of Tropical Waterlilies 2009-2010
In any given year you would consider water gardeners overwintering tropical waterlilies likley in Northern states. With such short growing seasons in the north its actually people in hardiness zones 6 and south that have more luck overwintering. This winter was long and hard all the way to the Gulf Coast. Darren, a good water garden friend in Austin [...]
Behind the Waterlily Journal….. (25 Years)
Most of the following information was gathered and submitted to Water-Garden-Blog by Paula Biles and Larry Nau. Paula and Larry are the first and third Executive Directors of the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society. *UPDATE 2/23/2010 “The Water Lily Journal” in block letters on the left is from the 1st editions of the Journal, [...]
The Journal Lives
Tim Davis has continued some great work on the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society website this week. This is a great time to become a member as more information and services are available than anytime before as far as the web goes. Larry Nau (Executive Director of the IWGS) and Tim Davis (Website [...]
Botanica Magnifica
From the Abbeville Press,
The original edition of Botanica Magnifica, consisting of five lavishly hand-bound volumes, was limited to just ten copies, the first of which was recently donated to the Smithsonian Institution. The extra-large “double-elephant” format of that edition was chosen in homage to the famous double-elephant folio of The Birds of America, and indeed, [...]
News of Interest
Beginning with Good news. An Aquascape team is participating in some wonderful work abroad. Follow the link to their Blog and you can keep up with what is going on. http://aquascapecolombia.blogspot.com/.
Update January 28th 2010: 2500 gallons of clean water has been delivered to the Rose of Sharon School.
Learn more about the Aquascapes Foundation here.
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