What's blooming in my pond

The first to bloom was one of my LA Iris. Such a pretty purple.

Next is the white fountain grass. I love the soft flowing blooms of this grass.

The soft rush is blooming too.

And yesterday, my hardy lily bloomed. It closed back up before I had time to get a picture and today, it's opened back up again.

The only water lilies I have had before were tropical. Anyone? Do the leaves ever get bigger on this hardy?

Molly
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I have some hardy and tropical lilies blooming. My iris are also blooming.

And this is my Black Gamecock Iris.

One more pic. My tropical lily Tanglewood Blue.

Sunny,

Those are lovely. I have some black gamecock iris too. I just haven't located it yet. I had a bunch of iris planted over my drain field until last night. I moved them over by the pond and hope to see more growth now.

We'll find that iris yet.

Molly
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Molly do you know the name of the Iris in your pic? I love the color.

Sunny,

It has no hybrid name. The water garden lady just calls them Hardy 'yellow'

She does have some named hybrid tropicals and I am thinking about getting one of those, if this hardy doesn't grow some bigger leaves.

My pond is about 32 inches deep. Would a tropical lily survive in here if the air temp got down to 17?

Molly

Molly, glad to see the first water lily bloom! Looks wonderful. How are the fish?

Fish are still kind of in murkyville. We put another piece of styrofoam in the pond and put that lizard statue on it. Wanted to make a little more shade on the water to overcome the algae.

Still working on it.

Molly
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