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 [...]
Cold Nymphaea? Overwintering Tropical Waterlilies
There are multiple methods used to overwinter Tropical Waterlilies. A few varieties seem to be able to grow indoors with some sunshine and care. A heated greenhouse works very well but few people have access to these. Learn how to locate and store tubers, keep some tropicals in well lit fish tanks and more in [...]
Winter: early, cold, and nationwide
Last week we had ice storms in the north east, this week in Chicago and Indiana. Snow twice in two weeks in Seattle which is uncommon, and more uncommon they now refuse to salt the roads in the city (for a good laugh look up the news stories about police officers responding on foot in Seattle because the city refuses to salt the streets because the salt may go into Puget sound, a body of salt water?). New Orleans and Beaumont TX had snow last week as did Las Vegas in the city. Florida has remained same so far but winter just arrived officially 5 days ago. Having lived here in Ohio for 8 or 9 years it wouldn’t surprise me if most of January and February are in the 50s but there is no sigh of that just yet. Tomorrow I will return to plants as I am anxious to begin discussing water lilies and what will be available this spring.
Please don’t break the ice!
Have you ever seen someone tap their finger on the glass of an aquarium? The fish jump, the sound waves scare the crap out of them. This is not healthy for fish, for some reason making lound noises affects fish very badly causing them to become succeptable to bacterial infections and viruses. Were am I going with this? It is winter and if you have fish in your pond you probably know that a frozen over pond or water garden often has fishkill, (fish that die during the winter). Some people think they see the fish under the ice which dont appear to be moving are actually dead, frozen in the pond.
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