"adavisus" wrote in message
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Wal*Mart will have them for less than $10 each in the spring. I've got
them
there for as little as $4.88 each. I've never had one to fail from
Wally
World. If it does, they have an excellent return/refund policy.

Walmarts sells unidentified hardy varieties which may turn out to be
quite unsuitable for any given pond. Like a pig in a poke, you don't
know what you are getting. Is it an odorata, which can spread 15' per
year and destroy a lake? Is it an attraction which has very poor flower
to leaf ratio, which can dome up 6' tall and twenty foot wide? You don't
know.

Yes, you do know. All those I've bought there have names. I never once saw
an unnamed water lily there. Look on the containers, that's where the name
is. None were pigs in a poke just stuck in bags or boxes unnamed. None were
misnamed. And one in fact was a variable miniature.

Assuming it is one of the very robust fast growing varieties, calculate
the labour cost involved of trying to get rid of it when it proves to be
unsuitable.

What labor? You lift the pot and get rid of it if you find it unsuitable.
You have to lift them to divide them anyway.

Calculate the cost of the pond that is destroyed, when, one
day the pond is punctured and you cannot find the leak to repair it
because the waterlily has choked the entire pond area

LOL!!!! You're a hoot! :-D If the lily gets larger than you want you
simply lift it out and give it away it throw it away.


What is for sure, they are varieties of waterlily that could not be
sold if folk did know what they were, so they are chopped up and sold
to walmarts for 20c apiece, for walmarts to use as a loss leader to
sell other more profitable items required to make a pond...

"Ooh, look at the cheap waterlily (a half dead to all dead dried out
stump) in the pretty box.... oh, lets spend $200 on a pokey little pond
and a pump..."

Wow! You should buy a few from Wally World. Mine were all beautiful healthy
plants with many flowers over the spring and summer. I had pics on my
website and people here saw them for themselves.

Oh well!! You do have some nice looking lilies, but I don't think I
could stand the shipping cost.

It might cost all of $2.00 to send three tropical tubers anywhere in
the world... It might cost all of $4.65 to send half a dozen well
chosen hardy waterlily crowns in a l'il priority parcel.



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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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