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- Hardy Pond Plants,
Changeable Lilies -
Comanche, Aurora, Sioux and Paul Hariot |
| THE KEY TO BIG POND PLANTS AND BLOOMS IS
FERTILIZER TABLETS ONCE A MONTH!
Not just any fertilizer will do. You need 10-26-10 Copper Free
This is very important for big blooming lilies, lotus and flowering plants. |
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Hardy Water Lilies - These stunning plants with rich vivid colors are the showpiece for your
watergarden. The hardy water lily with its profuse and extravagant blossoms is a winter hardy or
perennial plant available from us starting in March and continuing through September. Lilies come in
a variety of colors and sizes and once established bloom continually all summer long. Hardy lilies
can be easily distinguished from their tropical counterparts in that the leaves are smooth around
the edges. Hardy lilies perform many functions around the watergarden. Besides being very beautiful
and fragrant they provide shade and cover from predators for pond Koi. They absorb excess water-born
nutrients from the water and also if you have enough of your watergarden covered with their leaves
they act as an insulator preventing rapid temperature fluctuations of the water due to extreme day
and night temperature fluctuations. Hardy water lilies grow best in a generous amount of heavy
garden soil, avoiding too much organic matter unless it has been well composted. Even the heaviest
clay soils will work fine with the addition of a little sand and fertilizer. Depth should be
maintained between 6" to 18" when first transplanted and then once established can be grown from 12"
to 30" deep depending on the variety. Lilies are shipped to you bare-root.
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Arc-en-ciel
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Light pink to white. Leaves are green with creamy splashes. Flowers
are fragrant. Plant in full sun areas. A medium sized changeable Lily.
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Aurora
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Opens yellow and changes to red by the third day. A terrific
bloomer that produces multiple flowers. The blooms stay open late in the day.
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Comanche
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Very free flowering. The blossom opens yellow and
changes to a coppery bronze by the third day. It also has a pleasant fragrance.
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Indiana
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Foliage is green with purple blotches. Color is changeable apricot
to apricot-orange to deep Orange-Red.
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Little Sue
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Free flowering, with several light orange blooms all at once.
Medium size, Partial sun to full sun. Multiple blooms are common.
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Paul Hariot
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A very free flowering lily with petals of apricot that deepen to
dark pinkish-orange and occasional purple blotches. A good choice for any size pond.
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