Tumbleweed wrote:
"Peter H.M. Brooks" wrote in message
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Oxymel of Squill wrote:

lilies don't like moving water, so most set ups with fish are unsuitable,
unless you can arrange a quiet cornere out of any currents

I had 2 lilies in the fish pond and neither flowered, the koi attacked
one, fatally! I moved the survivor into a stagnant pool and it has
flowered prolifically this year and last


That makes sense - I could put them in the corner away from the fountain .
I'll try that - thank you.


A fountain in it? Thats probably it. In such a small pond you probably need
a fountain to avoid the water getting stagnant. But its only a M sq, so you
arent going to be able to move the lily very far away are you :-)
I suggest you dig a bigger pond.

One other thought, in a hot summer the water is going to warm up very fast,
much more so that in a bigger (especially deeper) pond. It may also be too
warm for them at the height of the summer.

Could be, it is in shade, but it gets pretty hot in summer. I did say
that it was a small pond - not a lake! There isn't the space for a
bigger one where it is, so I'll have to stick with what is there