Mstella, blooming for me is very inconsistent. I get one every so often. Not huge swaths... do you cut off the spent blooms to get them to bloom again?
Hyacinths in my pond, blooms
not water hyacinths, you don't deadhead them, at least not down here in Houston, it helps to leave them alone so they multiply by runner, the more plant the smaller the runner to each new plant, IF ours root in dirt, they get very very tall, for a water hyacinth, but they will right themselves when flaoting again
Ah... thanks. I was just talking about the flowers. I didn't think that the flowers were capable of aiding in the runners.
I have never gotten a hyacinth to bloom, but I would think that deadheading would assist in more blooms and more vitality to the plant itself. But Kittriana has them blooming and I don't so you go with the successful person.
Am going to try planting in pea gravel around the upper edge of my biofalls to see if 1) more warmth, and 2) not planted in the pond works per comments I have read here. TWL notified me that my shipment has been sent so should be here in a day or so. I will put them in the pond for a bit until it gets warmer. No hyacinths, just lilies and lotus. Ummm. and water plants that must stay in the garage in buckets.
I dont' deadhead my WH either.......
Interesting. Well, if I am so fortunate to get a hyacinth to bloom then I won't dead head either.
Ah. I was just wondering that if you do deadhead them, they would bloom more. I'm just looking for a way to get them to bloom more.
In most cases, you'd get wet deadheading them.
If I'm not mistaken, there are a lot of buds, and each bloom stays open for about a day or so. I'll let you know in July.
Cathy is right, a day, perhaps 2 days at the most for a WH flower.
Carolyn, are those water lilies or lotus?
Cathy
It is a waterlily. I don't have any lotus....
Mine are in tubs, so getting wet isn't too much of a problem.
They like really dirty stillish water, which stands to reason since they purify it, full sun, and if you have cooler nights than days they can bloom several times-abt the time they go to putting out new roots and babies, I have wondered if the flower show is to distract you from the fact they are multiplying again...
HAHAHA... good one. When mine get too big, I just mulch em.
Finally, Carolyn came up with a picture!! Nice!