This aquatic plant life looks beautiful in piss gardens declamatory and small .
Even a little water feature film can instantly make your K wait more witching , and a few water supply lily plants ( Nymphaeaspp . ) float on the surface canmake a pondlook downright dreamy . These aquatic plant life produce from tubers planted under body of water , sending up stems with rounded leaves and colorful , star - shaped blossoms that float on the surface .
What You’ll Need
Equipment / Tools
Materials
Instructions
Select a Container
Peter Krumhardt
habituate a wide of the mark and shallow container . A good size is 18 in extensive by at least 10 inch deep . The tuber , which is similar to the rhizome of aniris , grows horizontally . you could expend a container with or without drainage hole . If there are drain holes , line the pot with burlap to keep the soil in the container . grunge that leach out cancloud the piss in your pond .
Fill Container with Soil
Use a heavy bagged soil intended for use in the garden , not a fluffy pot filth that will be adrift out of the container . Avoid grunge mix with peat , vermiculite , or perlite for the same reason . Enrich the grime with aquatic fertilizer pellets made especially for the task . Push them into the soil before you plant .
Clean Up Plants
Before imbed water lily tubers in your container , remove honest-to-god leaves and thick , sarcoid old root withpruning shear . Then , more of the plant ’s vitality can go toward grow new root , leaves , stems , and blooms . result only emerging foliage and bud and the newer , hairlike roots .
Plant Tubers
embed the tuber against the side of the pot , with the growing tip head upward ( at about a 45 degree slant ) and toward the center of the pot . The cut end should be deep in the pot and the produce end of the water lily tuber should stick out about an inch above the soil surface .
Add Gravel
Cover the soil with about a half - inch layer of pea crushed rock or other minuscule pebbles to help hold the soil in the container . If you want the crushed rock to be less visible from above the body of water , habituate dark colored stone .
Place Pot in the Water
The deep-rooted hatful should be lowered into the pond at an angle to allow any trapped air to escape . Set the basis of the passel 12 to 18 inches recondite . The farewell will be adrift to the surface . If the pool is deeper than 18 in and does n’t have built - in planting ledges , support the pot with rocks to keep it at about that depth .
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Credit:Peter Krumhardt
Credit: Peter Krumhardt
Credit: Peter Krumhardt
Credit: Peter Krumhardt
Credit: Peter Krumhardt
Credit: Peter Krumhardt
