"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
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Reel McKoi wrote:


"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.

They have names, but not scientific ones. I have never seen lilies
labelled
as "Odorata" in places like Walmart and Home Depot.

I only found one old package in the shed. It had a pic of a lily and says,
"Fabiola." I remember another was called "Red Byron" or something like
that. The scientific names wouldn't mean much to the average ponder I
wouldn't think. If so, they can always make note of the names and Google
them. If they're the size you want, go back and buy them. For $4.88 it's
hardly worth the trouble.

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.

Then you've calculate the labor cost as "negligible" :-) I agree, it's no
big deal.

For $4.88 I'd give it away. :-) So far the only monster I had was a $10
white lily that took up most of the smaller pond. I got it at a Home Depot
some years ago. I traded it with someone from the Pond Club for other pond
plants. The thing was a monster!

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

Why would I let my lilies get so out of control?

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.


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...

Not legally. Generally international shipments of plants can't legally be
sent via ordinary mail.

Personally, I'd much rather have my hardy odoratas for steady, profuse,
flower production, year after year, and buy just one or two tropical or
otherwise special plants each spring.
--
derek

Speaking on for myself,... I only had to get rid of one lily. I wouldn't
waste my money on tropical lilies,... that is unless I can find them for
less than $4 each. ;-)

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