I cant belive how long it has been since i last posted on here. I must appologise to you all for not being vigilant with my psoting.

Kazzie- How goes the new pond? last i remember you were removing the old concrete one?

Ok well back to the subject of the post... how are all our lillys doing so far? I have 2 buds on the surface and one begining to opent as of today (think it will open in the next two days or so). The Lilly i bought from wilkos has put some lovely pads on the surface but no buds as of yet .. i think i might bring the pot up to the surface tonight and check below for any signs of flower buds.

Allngside the lillys the latifolia are comming into flower... and im soo excited ... i love the big brown flower heads and cant wait to see it come into its own.

Ohhh .. heres a thought.. has anyone tried to grow lotus? I still have one seed left and i really want to try and get it growing but am unsure as to if it is better to save it till i have a greenhouse.

Well i look forward to hearing form you all again.
I think i might put a picture or two on here during the weekend.

At the moment my comp. is going through a phase of not wanting to do anythin i want it to (might help if i install the right things). So Pond pics will have to wait... but i will post pictures over the years style. (starting with day one and going tru till photo day).

It feels soo good to be back posting again.

I have two lily flowers out, both white and more buds coming. Last year I had pink flowers too, but none opened yet so far this year.
I am assuming the brown buds will be pink as both white ones came from green buds.

Looking forward to more!

So far mine have not opened yet. But with each day more and more are comming to the surface! At the last count i had 5 on the surface with another 6 at varying depths between the base and the surface.

The lilly bought from wilko got raised to the surface yesterday and i saw one solitary bud. (can't wait will be a mixture of the old lilly (pink) and the new one (Red) but my minature lilly even still has no intention of flowering for me. (i'm not sure if i said before but it was in my mums pond and she had it for well over 6ish years with it never flowering for her either!!!)

I checked the reedmace today and the flower spike is making good progress.

What about everyones water hawthorns? Mine has gone into recession.. i have one very minature leaf and one part dead leaf.... this is my first ever attempt at these plants can anyone tell me if thats natural?

Well must go.. the chickens need my attention.

Have a Fintastic time
Richard

In early Spring 'phoxinus' offered white water-lily rhizomes here and was kind enough to send me one. This has already given me 4 lovely flowers, there are 3 more buds still under the water and the pads are quite large. So a big thank you to phoxinus!
My three year old Firecrest, which I separated into three and repotted have done virtually nothing! Just a few measly little pads. Yet I potted them all up at the same time as the 'phoxinus' (don't know the variety so it has a new name!) and kept them in shallower water till they showed signs of leaf.

The arrowhead and pickerel hyacinth bought at B & Q are both strong plants so I seem to have had better luck than some.

Tricia

Well so far my pink bud is slowly opening ... its almost unbearable how slow its going ... like a strip tease i can see the petals but just cant reach them :)

Sue - hahahahahahaha... i really hope this is the year ... i guess that this is the first year it is probably at the correct depth... in all the time the family have had it it has been moved up and down the depths of each pond and has never shot up so manny pads as before this. I think though as its maybe at its optimum depth it might need that extra year to fully deveope its system for flowers.

Strange also about the full sun/shade ... my pond gets all the sun from 6am till 11am then the sun re-appears at 1pm till 4pm when it dissapears again ... (im actually kind of greatful for the mid day break it gets or it might just be worse with the weed.

Also am going to post pictures of before and after on the gal. forums :) toay :) any comments are very welcome :)

Happy ponding all

Richard

Kazzie how do i post a pictuer on here? like u did?

Richard

Richard... refer to Sean's reply in goldfish going white post

Well my lillys are all open now but looking really poor this year :( maybe its a bit early yet. i think i will give them a few more weeks to really get going after all its only just the start of summer ;)

Richard