Yep, that's it: don't put them under or near a waterfall, fountain,
airstone, etc. Water moving under and around them is fine, they just don't
like to get splashed or bounced around. If the surface is still, they'll be
fine. When I had lilies in the pond (this year, no plants where the fish are
.. . . an experiment), they did just fine with a pond turnover of 2.5X per
hour.
"groovy" wrote in message
...
I just got back from the Loire valley in France where there was a very
nice
display of Lilies around a Chateau in the middle of a tributary river.
There
was a good old flow going on (I wouldn't like to have tried to swim
across)
but the lee of the building made a nice calm surface for the leaves to sit
on
without getting swamped by wavelets. So I suspect that as Paul says, it's
the calm surface that is important rather than the amount of flow.

"joe" wrote in message
...
I've seen it mentioned a few times here and also read in books that
water
lilies don't like moving water. So, the question arises, if you are
supposed
to move the entire volume of your pond through whatever filter you are
using
every one to two hours, how can you not have moving water? I think I'm
around a water change very 1.5 hours and would call that noticeably
moving
water; no waves or anything, but moving along.

Clearly, I don't have lilies in the stream or under my waterfall, but I
do
in my main pond.

Enquiring minds are looking askance for some insight.

Joe



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