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- Hardy Pond Plants, Yellow Lilies -
Charlene Strawn, Chromatella, Mexicana, Texas Dawn, Joey Tomocik, Helvola. |
| 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 - 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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Charlene Strawn
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| This is one of the most fragrant of all the hardy lilies. Makes an excellent cut flower. It is very free flowering with a long blooming season.
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Chromatella
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| A very free flowering lily with yellow cup-shaped blossoms. It has a nice fragrance and needs only three to four hours of sunlight to produce blooms.
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Helvola
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| A dwarf lily with small yellow flowers. Great for tub gardens. It is a very free flowering lily and has a slight fragrance.
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Joey Tomocik
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| This lily has the deepest yellow blooms of all the yellow lilies. It produces lots of flowers over its long blooming season.
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Mexicana
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| This is not a true hardy lily, but it will winter over OK in mid-range US climates. It is very bright yellow and blooms like a tropical lily. *Restricted Plant in California - Unable to ship
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Texas Dawn
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| Planted in a large container it will produce several blooms at a time by late summer. It is one of the first to bloom and has a lemony fragrance.
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Unsorted Yellow Lilies
- | Yellow 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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