Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:

I've had some water lillies in my fishpond for a couple of years

now.

They had flowers on them when bought, but haven't flowered
since -
even though they have grown nice and big. What do you do to get

them

to flower?

The pond started to leak so I've taken everything out to see if I

can

re-seal it. It had a liner before, well bits of liner were still

left,

and I'm not sure if the bituminous sealer will be the ideal

solution.

Any suggestions as to what to look for in a pond liner? It is a

pretty

small pond around a metre square and thirty centimetres deep.


What species and variety are they? Your pond may not be deep
enough
for them, as I think you need at least a foot above the rootstock
even for the smallest. I also wonder if there are too many -- you
say
"water lilies", plural.

I have three in the pond of different species - I don't know the
names. There is plenty of space between them.

Thank you for that point though - I will have the pool quite a bit
deeper after mending the leak and that might do the trick, just.

My books are still in boxes, but I've done a cursory Gg, and I wonder
if either of these sites might be useful.

This BBC one's about water-lilies in particular:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plant...nymphaea.shtml

I see that there actually are species which want water shallower than
I mentioned -- sorry! But of course we still don't know what you've
got.

This one's a very chatty (though mercifully free of exclamation
marks) and informative one about small ponds in general, with a bit
about water-lilies:
http://www.johnrogers.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pond1.htm

HTH,
Mike.