Our pond is new this year, 1300 gallons. We have four 5-inch fish,
three hardy lilies, mucho water hyacinth and a couple of other plants.
We are in Southern NH and have enjoyed two hot, steamy weeks that made
the plants produce lots of new growth.

When can we expect the lilies to flower?

TIA

John

Short answer, Yes!

Longer, as long as they are planted correctly, crown not buried in soil and
some pond tabs to feed on now and then, they sure should. ~ jan

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 17:07:10 -0400, John Bachman wrote:

Our pond is new this year, 1300 gallons. We have four 5-inch fish,
three hardy lilies, mucho water hyacinth and a couple of other plants.
We are in Southern NH and have enjoyed two hot, steamy weeks that made
the plants produce lots of new growth.

When can we expect the lilies to flower?

TIA

John


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I was wondering how the pond was dug in the Granite State!
I don't remember seeing land that didn't have large rocks
jutting up through the soil.
Bonnie
NJ

Anne Lurie wrote:
I don't know about the lilies, John, my brain is still trying to wrap itself
around "Southern NH" and "hot, steamy weeks" in the same sentence!!!

I guess Southern NH must be bit different from northern VT (where I lived
before coming to Raleigh, NC), from the sound of it!

Either that, or there's been a paradigm shift in weather patterns! Hmm,
come to think of it, about the only times I've ever been "snowed in" were
here in Raleigh -- and there was that nasty ice storm last December.

Weird how Mother Nature likes to rearrange things, huh?

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC



"John Bachman" wrote in message
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Our pond is new this year, 1300 gallons. We have four 5-inch fish,
three hardy lilies, mucho water hyacinth and a couple of other plants.
We are in Southern NH and have enjoyed two hot, steamy weeks that made
the plants produce lots of new growth.

When can we expect the lilies to flower?

TIA

John

I was wondering how the pond was dug in the Granite State!
I don't remember seeing land that didn't have large rocks
jutting up through the soil.
Bonnie
NJ

Anne Lurie wrote:
I don't know about the lilies, John, my brain is still trying to wrap itself
around "Southern NH" and "hot, steamy weeks" in the same sentence!!!

I guess Southern NH must be bit different from northern VT (where I lived
before coming to Raleigh, NC), from the sound of it!

Either that, or there's been a paradigm shift in weather patterns! Hmm,
come to think of it, about the only times I've ever been "snowed in" were
here in Raleigh -- and there was that nasty ice storm last December.

Weird how Mother Nature likes to rearrange things, huh?

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC



"John Bachman" wrote in message
...

Our pond is new this year, 1300 gallons. We have four 5-inch fish,
three hardy lilies, mucho water hyacinth and a couple of other plants.
We are in Southern NH and have enjoyed two hot, steamy weeks that made
the plants produce lots of new growth.

When can we expect the lilies to flower?

TIA

John

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 01:22:02 GMT, Bonnie Espenshade
wrote:

I was wondering how the pond was dug in the Granite State!
I don't remember seeing land that didn't have large rocks
jutting up through the soil.
Bonnie
NJ

We are in an area that is pure beach sand below 6 inches of loam. I
once had a test well dug and we found 75 feet of sand before hitting
bedrock.

So, the digging was relatively easy but I had to use concrete block to
hold the sides in.

John

Yes, I guess it must if you haven't had any hot and steamy weather. It's
been in the high 90's (I know, nothing compared to the South) and high
humidity. It wasn't too bad today, humidity wise, anyway, and I was able do
dig a walkway in my front yard.

--
LN in S. NH (new gardener in zone 5)
photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed


"Anne Lurie" wrote in message
. com...
I don't know about the lilies, John, my brain is still trying to wrap
itself
around "Southern NH" and "hot, steamy weeks" in the same sentence!!!

I guess Southern NH must be bit different from northern VT (where I lived
before coming to Raleigh, NC), from the sound of it!

Either that, or there's been a paradigm shift in weather patterns! Hmm,
come to think of it, about the only times I've ever been "snowed in" were
here in Raleigh -- and there was that nasty ice storm last December.

Weird how Mother Nature likes to rearrange things, huh?

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC

Flowering on waterlilies has some variables...
In a temperate area where there are cool summers, you can have a lot
of buds waiting for a rare hot day and you can get exceptional
'flurries' of numbers of buds flowering, while in a hot climate, the
buds can pop in dribs and drabs, ones and twoses...

Choice varieties might have say up to seven buds flowering at a time
in fertile conditions, frobelli pic attached to indicate that [Smile]

Coarse varieties might throw up one bud for every thirty leaves, with
a fair chance the odd bud is smothered by the foliage

Tropicals tend to start flowering at midsummer, I think they are
influenced by the day length, while the hardies just go nuts all
summer when the temperature suits them. Some flower late, helvola
seems to do that...

There is definitely a 'sequence' to the hardies, one of the days I'll
record what it is and the temperatures. Usually I'm fretting to
photograph them at their best than to document their botanical quirks,
doh!

Regards, Andy
Over 100 aquatic plants available!
http://www.members.aol.com/abdavisnc/swglist.html
http://community.webshots.com/user/adavisus
(photo albums of aquatic plants and descriptions)


John Bachman wrote in message . ..
Our pond is new this year, 1300 gallons. We have four 5-inch fish,
three hardy lilies, mucho water hyacinth and a couple of other plants.
We are in Southern NH and have enjoyed two hot, steamy weeks that made
the plants produce lots of new growth.

When can we expect the lilies to flower?

TIA

John