Show us your favorite water lily

I have been trying to move to all named water lilies. Because some water lilies where donated I will never know what they are, but I'll try to replace them with named water lilies as I go along.

This was my solution to another common water gardening problem. Lots of folks buy a named water lily from a company, but then 5 or 10 years later they can't remember what it is.

A friend was throwing out PLASTIC WINDOW BLINDS. I would only use PLASTIC because if you had spawning goldfish or koi metal blinds might hurt them if they banged up against the metal blind. Plus, I don't know if metal blinds would rust and pollute the water. I write all the info on the plastic blind strip real heavy with a permanent marker like 'Sharpie'.

The stuff I want to know is: date planted, color, name of water lily and sometimes who gave it to me. I run the strip from the plastic blind across the bottom of the pot.

The blinds my friend was tossing just happen to be green in color.

Here you can see a planted pot.

I think this was a label that was one or two years old. I just scraped the algae off the label and there was size and color info. I like this method because if you divide in the spring before they are blooming you know what you've got in the pot.

Deb - LOL about your destroyed pot in the first photo! That's what I have mine growing in. I am also using the 1 gallon round plastic ice cream containers (no holes). Your 'Little Giant' dishes are nice. I have a small container pond which is not very big at all, so as nice as those dishes are, they wouldn't fit in my water gardens. :-( But I bet others here would find them wonderful! If only I had a large in-ground pond! (sigh)