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Can I Purchase Cut Lotus Flowers Or WaterliliesFor An Event I Am Planning! Can I Purchase Cut Lotus Flowers Or Waterlilies For An Event I Am Planning? Lotus as a cut flower We get dozens of calls each year from brides and event organizers asking us where they can purchase cut lotus for their wedding or events. Many brides wish to carry cut lotus in their bridal bouquet and event planners want to float them in large glass bowls. Although this is a romantic notion, as a rule, lotus are not available as a cut flower. If you place a lotus bl...
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Viviparous Waterlilies And Their Propagation Viviparous Waterlilies have the capacity to cause new plants to emerge while still attached to the parent plant. These new little plants are called plantlets. There are a few tropical day blooming waterlilies that produce plantlets from their pads. A few of the tropical night bloomers produce these plantlets from spent flowers, as do some hardy waterlilies. The tropical day blooming variety N. Micrantha, has the ability to produce plantlets from its' leaves and this species is always pre...
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How to Grow Australian Waterlilies: Protocol by Rich Sacher CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS FOR N. BETTY LOU (Please note: all the following protocols apply to any Aussie species, its hybrids, and its inter subgeneric hybrids! This protocol is especially designed for a commercial grower.) Immutabilis x colorata (N. Betty Lou) is not a difficult cross to make, and others have done so; my criteria for selecting my clone of this Australian hybrid were: A much more compact size than other crosses with Australian natives. A constant bloomer, once matur...
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Explosive Waterlilies! Explosive Waterlilies! Add some excitement to your pond with these fireworks! My son Zac and I have always been garden enthusiasts, enjoying plants from morning glories to cherry tomatoes and every plant in between. After years of planting seeds, cuttings and plants in the soil, Zac became interested in water garden plants. This was a new area of interest for us and we began to explore the vast world of water garden plants. We built a small pond and Zac began to try a number of different plan...
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Native Pond Plants, Growing Wetland Aquatic Plants & Water Lilies For our customers with large earth bottom natural ponds:Both Native plants and ornamental impact plants are excellent an excellent choice for natural ponds. Do not think of weeds or even cattails which will quickly get out of control in an earth bottom pond.Native plants prevent erosion, keep the water clean and clear and add a lot of character to the natural setting. What Plants/Native Plants are best for my natural earth bottom ponds? Different parts of the country should use different pl...
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Planting Instructions for Aquatic Plants 'How To Plant Pond Plants' (This Includes Tropical Waterlilies, Hardy Waterlilies, Marginal Plants, Floating Plants, Submerged Oxygenators As Well As True Floating Plants) Planting Instructions for Aquatic Plants Along with providing you with the most diverse selection of pond plants available anywhere, we want to help you grow the very best water garden plants in your pond or water feature. Listed below are some tips and advice as to how to plant your pond plants. There are a list of DO's and DON'TS as well. DO notify us upon the arrival of your pond plants, if anything arrives in a stressed or damaged condition. We will try to rectify it at once. ...
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Aquatic Plant Orders To Our California Customers Aquatic Plant Orders To Our California Customers We ship hundreds of orders to our California customers each year, however, shipping aquatic plants to California is not without numerous complexities. Not only are there special regulations for the state of California--they vary by county. This makes importing plants shipped in soil (both marginal and shelf plants) impossible from our main location in Florida. Florida and California have an ongoing battle with their citrus plants, and often pla...
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category box Planting Supplies Tadpoles & Pond-Snails oxygenating plants Shop the WATERLILIES (Winter Hardy) Floating Pond Plants Bog / Shelf Plants ...
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New Products and Items From Pondmegastore New Products and Items From Pondmegastore April 2018 *Koi Fish Ornaments Exquisite, hand blown, hand painted, 6" koi fish ornaments from Poland. Several patterns and colors including: 1.) Koi Fish/Shiru Utsuri (Black and White Fish) 2.) Koi Fish/Kohaku Version (Orange and White Fish) 3.) Koi Fish/Taisho Sanke (Orange, Black and White Fish) 4.) Koi Fish/Tancho Koi (Black and White with Red Dot on Head) 5.) Koi Fish/Tancho Koi (All White with Red Dot on Head) Perf...
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Get Your Plants Off To A Great Start With Landon Aquatic Fertilizer Get Your Aquatic Plants Off To A Great Start With Landon Aquatic Fertilizer! Get your aquatic plants off to a great start! Landon Aquatic Fertilizer is one of the best, if not THE best aquatic fertilizer on the market for aquatic plants. It was developed by the world renowned horticulturist and hybridizer, Ken Landon (also the Director for the International Waterlily Collection in San Angelo, Texas). The granular formula uses a binary system to deliver the nutrients you plant needs to obtai...
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Hybridizer, Tony Moore Hybridizer, Tony Moore Some of the most exquisite, hardy waterlilies we sell at Pondmegastore, were hybridized by a good friend of ours, Tony Moore, hybridizer and owner of Moore Waterlilies. Many of his hybrids are Award Winning Waterlilies from the International Water Garden Society and the International Waterlily Collection. About hybridizer, Tony Moore; Tony studied horticulture at Cincinnati State College and the University of Cincinnati. He lives with his lovely wife, Dawn, who works wi...
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Beautiful Planting Ideas for Natural Swimming Pools Natural Swimming Pools Natural swimming pools are beautiful additions to your home. They are often less expensive to use than traditional pools since there are no chemicals to add. No rectangular, chlorine filled pool--but natural looking, beautifully shaped, with curved edges and beautifully landscaped margins. They may include rocks, waterfalls and boulders, as well. Just imagine, no harsh chemicals, no burning eyes from chlorine. . .just sweet, fresh crystal-clear water! It ...
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Information Regarding Planting Water Garden Plants, Soils, Containers, Fertilizers and more. We want to help you grow the very best water garden plants. Take a peek at our planting instructions. Please note what NOT to do under each type of plant as there is a lot of misinformation on the internet regarding pond plants. Report any signs of stress or damage to plants to us immediately and we can help you to be sure that they are going to be ok. Issues should be addressed ASAP. How to Plant Hardy Perennial Water Lilies 1.) Choose a wide, shallow container for your waterlily. T...
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Water Gardens for Beginners There is so much information. Where do we begin? This page has examples of many different size water features, look for the one that best describes your water feature!Each example of water feature sizes title is purple. Before we begin, think about the following.... A Water Garden and a Koi Pond are two separate things. Which one do you want? What is most important to you? How would you describe your water garden feature? A Container Garden, Small Pond, Medium Pond, Large Pond or Natural...
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Shipping Schedule Shipping Schedule for Live deliveries When will my order ship? With the exception of Lotus your plants will probably arrive together at the proper planting time for the most cold sensitive plant on your order. Our live plants are greenhouse grown, shipped in a very active late spring early summer rate of growth when shipped to you and cannot move into cool nights or they are thrown out of whack into dormancy. They are not semi dormant like emerging perennials still enjoying cool soil or wat...
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How Do I Prepare My Pond For Winter? How Do I Prepare My Pond For Winter? To ready your pond for winter, start by adding your last dose of fertilizer in August. Just before your first frost, you should tend to all of your plants by removing and pruning all dead foliage. Do this for all plants you are leaving in the pond except hornwort, anacharis, vallisneria, and horsetail rush which can stay green. Taro and Canna can tolerate one good frost and then be dug up and tubers/rhizomes saved in onion bags in a cool, dark place throug...
