Those of us who live in subtropical climes and New Orleans certainly counts as one, are now looking forward to our first tropical water lily blooms. Usually in May the first leaves reach the surface and we can start fertilizing. I use Aquatabs, one per gallon of pot size. Yeah, I know there are special water lily pots that look something like dish drainers, but I'm lazy and still use the 3 gallon pots I transplanted them into years ago. I put them on the bottom of my 18" deep pond and leave them there year round.
Those of you who have hardy water lilies don't have to worry about them surviving the winter, but most of use love the tropical ones, so we sink them to the bottom of the pond and hope they survive the cold. Most of the time they do, especially this past winter which really wasn't winter at all. And for those of us who are water lily addicts, the new ones will be on sale in a week or so. Be still my heart!
So I wait for the opportunity to take these sorts of photos again this summer. And maybe get a better photo.
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