Water Gardening: Texas waterlilies etc arrived, 1 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
I definately want to have more lilie cover this coming summer to shade the fish and help limit the algae. Next year I can probably divide some plants and get even more. I'm really, really curious as to how these new lotus plants will look. Since I'll have them set up high on one or two eggcrates I wonder if they will be stable enough if they poke out of the water. Will a wind storm knock my tower of babel over?

Here's a part of my present nursery. One big lotus has not yet seen much sign of life. It is a big cormer in the bucket. When I looked at it, a whole bunch of little bugs came out of the holes at the bottom stem. I also saw a snail. These must have come with the plants as I never saw them before.

Fred