Water Lilies Nymphaea: THEIR startling flowers and rounded, leafy pads, water lilies Nymphaea lilies, Nymphaea, are a familiar sight in most garden pools. They come in a wide array of colors, including white, yellow, pink and red, and there are different types to choose from including single and double; some have star-shaped flowers and some cup-shaped, while others have incurved petals or petals which are papery to touch.
Most water lilies Nymphaea lilies will provide color from early summer until early fall. They do not, however, tolerate moving water lilies Nymphaea. Plant them in planting baskets at the correct water lilies Nymphaea depth.
The lilies are set out only when water lilies Nymphaea temperatures will stay above 70°F. A layer of gravel is spread on top of the soil so the water lilies Nymphaea will not be muddied when the tub is eased carefully into the pool. Unless you have a frost-free place to store the tubers over winter, treat the lilies as annuals. water lilies Nymphaea depth should be 18 inches. Here are three favorite cultivars:
Nymphaea 'Juno' has large white flowers, needs at least five hours of direct sun daily, and has a spread of 8 to 10 square feet.
N. 'Texas She]] Pink'is a glowing light pink, needs five hours of sun, and has a spread of 10 square feet.See Also Water Lilies That:The little water lilies that garden was a success. The lilies bloomed, t spike rush grew into a healthy fountain of green tipped with brov non-flowering buds, and the dwarf cyperus shot up 2 1/2 foot stei topped with a Fan of leaves.
Once autumn arrives and temperatures start to fall, the wal garden should be emptied until the following spring. Hardy wai lilies will survive outside if the water lilies that above them never freezes sol: But in a tub exposed to the weather this will be the natural order things.
If you wish, the lilies can be kept over the winter in a need not be kept in water lilies that. The papyrus can be a happy houseplant if kept warm (62 to 80°F.), in maxium light, and moist soil. As to the >pike rush, I do not know, but I suspect it, too, will keep indoors if given plenty of light and at least six weeks of temperatures averaging .
Some years ago I remembered reading an article in Flower cu Garden (April, 1979) which reported that Joseph Dayton had succes fully planted water lilies that lilies in two 12-gallon sauerkraut crocks (1 inches wide by 24 inches deep). The lilies were planted in 8-inch cl< pots, and they bloomed, each plant bearing 4 to 6 flowers. I decide to try it for myself.
I bought a tub, washed it out carefully, and let it sit in the sun f a few days.
On The Other Hand See True Lilies Lilium:True lilies Lilium lilies (Lilium spp.) are a gigantic genus and like dal quite overwhelming in variety. For this garden use a mixture of Asiatic hybrids 'Mid-Century' (bright oranges, reds, and pastels) for flowers in June and July. Follow with the 'Black-Dra[ (white with maroon ribs on the outside) for July and August, tl Lilium speciosum 'Rubrum' (white and crimson) or 'Roseum' colored blossoms) for August to September. But these are only sug¬gestions; you might find other colors you prefer. Bulbs should be planted out as soon as you receive them: Lily bulbs never go into a True lilies Lilium dormant period. Plant them 4 to 8 inches deep and 10 to 18 inches apart, depending on the ultimate height, putting a teaspoon full of bonemeal in the bottom of each hole.
This year in our garden we had a display of spring bulbs began on April 8 and lasted until the second week of June.
Later in the season came the charming English iris, Japanese iris, the many flowering onions (seven different species), a host of lilies and daylilies, gladiolus of all colors, and for one year at least, the charming I hardy cyclamen. And in pots gathered on the terrace and out around! the sundial, the awesome devil's tongue, wand flowers from Africa,] calla lilies, and a magnificent, white lily-of-the-Nile.
Finally there are late-blooming lilies, autumn crocus (see page] 42), and for Christmas, Amaryllis and all the wonderful forced bulbs j of winter.
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