I am looking for a tropical water lily that overwinters in cold water. I live in Phoenix but my pond is close to the north side of the house so for many months during the winter the water is very cold. Many of the tropicals I’ve had fail to come back.

The Blue Lotus grows up to 8-12 inches (20-30 cm) tall and 6-8 feet wide (180-240 cm). All plants of the Nymphaeales order are aquatic. They are attached to pond or stream bottoms, but whether their leaves and flowers are submerged, floating, or standing above the water varies. They range in size from the small, fragile Cabomba (fanwort), which has floating leaves less than 0.3 cm (1 inch) in diameter, to Nymphaea, which produce leaves 50 cm (about 18 inches) wide that can cover an area 2.5 metres (8 feet) in diameter in one summer. The largest water lily has impressive circular floating leaves that attain 2 metres (6.5 feet) in diameter and flowers 40 cm (about 15 inches) across. This nymphaea is a large water lily and, therefore, needs plenty of room.

Great Video and very clear explanation, thank you. I am from Sri Lanka

It’s too bad these guys are so arrogant and choose to not see the big picture of how long a new customer can stick around if they treat them right. I will NEVER forget the EXTREMELY rude email reply I received from them after inquiring for some advice and plant recommendations. I was up front that I had a pond that was developed just for fun with my kids as they were learning f science, nature, and ideas how to repurpose rather than discard items. We had taken their old swimming pool (a 5x7) and created a pond with it with no intent to keep it going. We added some local sourced items from a huge pond nearby. Well the kids LOVED it and over time it has developed slowly into a well established pond giving home to many creatures who found their own way, several Fantail fish that have thrived for three years even producing their own offspring. Due to a family member’s illness last summer, our standard weekly maintenance was not performed for an extended time and during a heat wave. Before we could get to it, the pond had a Massive algae bloom. With little time to do more research, I asked for recommendations stating I had $200 to spend to add plants. Well, they apparently could care less about anyone’s story, were annoyed I shared so much about the kids and the development of the pond and went so far to make rude comment in email reply about the length of the email being ridiculous. Then they chose to not even provide any recommendations. As I told them, we are moving a planning to build a huge pond or two on the property. They lost a customer and at least two more with my kids as they grow up. We will never give this company one cent and I would recommend one else does either. They have NO respect or care for anyone except themselves sadly. Not even the creatures living in our pond got their attention to be a reason to help. Guess $200 just isn’t enough. BTW, l fixed up our pond and everything is still thriving and we are moving in just two months now. Now I know who NOT to go to for supplies.

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Very comprehensive and helpful vid...BUT some of those plants die each year and breakdown...eg lillies. Do you recommend removing dying vegetation? AND lillies form a root mass across the bottom trappling fine sediment. Should thus be periodically removed ...in situ or by emptying the pond? This is important to my 10,000 lt pond Kind regards Roger

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This is the best explanation. Very detailed and thorough. Thank you.

Thanks a lot🙏 there is no info about that other than yours

Thank you, thank you! You covered every single algae issue we have encountered over the 20 years of pond fishies. Good info about the filter too.

so pretty!

I just got my seeds and its the end of August in central California. If I start them inside and keep them inside over the winter, will an aquarium light and a sunny window be enough to keep them growing over winter indoors? Moving them out to a pond in the spring. if not, do the seeds last a long time and keep till May next year, they are already cut on one end. They came that way.

RIP bought some Thai Siamese Dream (TM) which is advertised as Nymphaea Caerulea

Pea like and green water.

Don’t all these plants such as lily, water lettuce, hyacinths need full sunlight to thrive? My pond gets about 2 hours at most of sun. What plants would do well under this condition? Mahalo!

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He briefly mentions Pellon but there are MULTIPLE kinds of Pellon in the craft store of various thicknesses. Can someone be more specific about what they use?

My Texas Dawn bud had a pinky/peachy cast here in mid-August zone 7b. .I was confused, but the flower is still yellow and i found elsewhere on the internet that the late season variation is normal,

Very helpful info . Thank you.

I have a few questions and I'd like to send pictures of what's going on with my pond. What's the email I can send the pictures to. In your video the pea soup alge is what my pond is going through and it's just terrible!

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This is the most informative video Ive seen after scouring KZbin! nice work!

What about pond dye for algae reduction?

Should you add beneficial bacteria after algaecide use or weekly or monthly to keep it at good levels?

That was really well done🙌

How do you get rid of black beard algae in large ponds?

It is a shame you did not put the names of waterlilies on the video.

I appreciate the info and your not trying to sell me products

Can you plant these plants directly on the bottom of the pond so they can spread?

Thank you, very helpful and informative video, what is the name of this expert?

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OMG I can't actually concentrate on what you are saying!

The Egyptian variety was described as being much more narcotic-like It also grew 6 to 12 ft tall instead of 4 to 6. It's very likely the Egyptians bred their plant to be more of a narcotic and a bigger producer. The modern variety of Nymphaea caerulea, it's differentiated much like modern tomatoes compared to tomatoes of the 18th century.

I have a large (20 gal) pot in which I am trying to grow water lillies/lotus. One has produced a leaf on the surface, the other tubers are still growing underwater. I have no fish or filter. I'm starting to get algae on the pot, should I be concerned?

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Hi , I got Horsetail Rush in Homedepot in a pot but it didn't identify it as "Giant." Horsetail. Can I still get to the full bush look? or do I have to get the "Giant" type in order to get the full bush look? Thank you

didn't know the Flash was into ponds

Nice man

But what does the outdoor temp need to be? It’s may and I’m in the NE.

Can u use same soil every year or change soil every year. Thanks

I've had a water feature in our backyard for years and had no algae. A few years back I added some river and pond pebbles and had algae since. It's been hair like mossy. I just rake it out by hand and haven't really worried about it but it's a little annoying as it grows fast and needs cleaned out often. We don't have fish but we do have frogs. We don't of course feed them. I've thought about getting some the pool chemicals to get rid of the algae but it really didn't seem a big enough problem. My question would be where did the algae come from? Maybe the pond and river pebbles? Your video answered some questions and I now think I was right to just remove the algae as much as possible and not worry about it.

Wives everywhere suddenly intrigued by a pond algae video 😂

My man straight pulled a Captain Kirk.😆

Great video! I was reassured to be patient with my new algae growth and let it work itself out after I had to replace almost half of water due to a leak. Not mention the new 80 degree temps in TN.

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Do your have bulbs......?

Cam you please list the names of the plants in this video ?

Thanks for your advice.

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