Water Gardening: Happy Ponds- the upside of ponding, 0 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Very late chiming in on this, but Txdoodlebug, if you're in the market for more water plants, I have bought from Texas Waterlilies and been very pleased. Think of the shorter shipping distance your plants would have to suffer. I wonder if they have survived the terrible drought ok.

I got my dwarf water lily 'Dauben' from them as well as lotus 'Baby Doll' and this year a new slightly larger water lily 'Yellow Thamannoon' that has been really lovely. It's a bit too big for my little 4ft. by 12ft. pond, but I inhibited its growth a bit by keeping it in a small-ish pot.

If I had a pond up north, I think I'd want blue water lilies, too. I'd buy the tropical blue of choice, lift the pot, keep them in a cold but not freezing basement or garage over the winter, then put them out again in spring? You'd just have to make sure they didn't dry out. My tropicals have all survived two extremely cold winters. I know the pond water got down into the 40's despite my best efforts at adding sun-warmed water to keep the temp up.

Here's 'Yellow Thamannoon'