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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.
*Copper will kill your valuable
Japanese Trapdoor Snails that eat algae. |
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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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Sioux
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| The flower opens a pale yellow and by the third day has matured to a copper-red. It is fragrant and extremely free flowering.
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Unsorted Changeable Lilies
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| Changeable Lilies - Lily that is overstocked and selected at random to decrease stock levels. May have lost its marking tag as to what species it is.
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