Water Gardening: Box store waterlilies - a slow, painful death., 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
I have never seen waterlilies or any pond plants for sale at Wally World. But I did buy 4 different types of waterlilies at HD last year. I got them when they first showed up on display at the store so they were in good shape at that time. Months later those left on display for sale were probably all rotted or dried up.

I bought 4 different Hardy Waterlilies. Here is a photo of the very first bloom from those batch of waterlilies. I bought Sulphurea (yellow), Fabiola (pink), Attraction (red), and Sioux (orange) and all have healthy lily pad growth currently and started growing within the first week I planted them and sunk them in the water container. Very teeny plants when I purchased them. (And I do mean TINY!) They survived the mild winter here where we got almost to freezing a couple nights. I have them in separate pots in a small HD water pond. (Which is more like a large round "ugly" water container, not a pond.) Here's a photo showing the 4 different waterlilies and the yellow (Sulphurea) bloom.

My suggestion is to buy them when they first show up at the store, otherwise you will probably be disappointed with a dead or dying plant after the first couple weeks on display for sale at HD or WM.