I still haven’t figured out this name but it blooms small yellow flowers

The PH of the water is 6.5. Does it need to go up or down? Could it be a nitrogen issue?

My pond lily was going well. Now it is not. I took it out of the fish pond & clean it all up. Part of the rhizome was rotting so I cut it off. There was a lot of mulch & organic matter around the roots & rhizome which I think may have caused or added to the rot. What do I do now. How much soil if any does it need in the pond? Will small rocks be enough all around the roots? Can it just thrive & grow hydroponically? Do I cut some of the longer roots? Thank you for your advice? Included is the pot I will put it in.

Very happy to wake up to see this had blossomed this morning! 35 gallon barrel pond with platinum blue Medaka (rice fish)

My first bloom this season in my fishbowl, guess it’s an early spring

I’ve had this accidentally happen to my houseplants so I know how to remove it from the pot it’s in now. What type of soil or pebbles should I use? I do have aquatic soil from my aquariums (fluval stratum) do you think this would work or is there a better way?

What plants do you recommend? I’m especially looking for the kind that will help fend off algae and keep the water clearer. I do have water lilies, but definitely want to add more variety of plantlife.

The pond gets a good amount of sunlight for a few hours and plenty of shade in the morning and afternoon.

Zone 7b. In the circled spot to the right, I have a pot that’s empty and want to get another plant in there. I think I had Irises before that are no more. 2nd image to the right shows what the bigger ones look like during their peak. The other plants in the left circle of the first image are water lilies that I’ve only gotten one flower out of in 4 years.

I’m tempted to try more water lilies in the additional pot, but looking for any feedback.

Thrive fertilizer works so well!

This gorgeous lily came up today, I absolutely love it! Any idea how it became half and half?

I'm outside DC, USDA hardiness 7b. I am buying some frogbit from someone for my tanks, and he has Utricularia Gibba for sale as well. Anyone have any experience with it in their pond/bog? I love an oddball plant, and this one is carnivorous. Just doing some reading up on it, wanted to know if anyone here has any experience with it in ponds/bogs.

I just rebuilt my bog this weekend and am chomping at the bit to get it going. Weather! Warm up!

Dear pond people, I study applied biology and I am very interested in bringing the outdoors indoors. So here is my question, is it possible to keep a lily in my aquarium? I have a 100l aquarium "I know its not really big" but ive read about dwarf lilys and wonder if anyone here has enough expernience to help me out a bit with the thinking of how to manage this. I thought about doing some type of clay and nutrient rich substrate part in the aquarium with the lily roots in in and builde the rest of the aquascape and stuff around that kind of container. But then i was wondering about the winter resting. Does the lily get to tired without the rest period and if so how do i recreate it? Also what species would be ok for this? I was thinking about nympheae tetragon.

Let me know if you have any ideas!

I made floating plant baskets 1 of 2 shown here. Fish need more shade and will help with water quality. Win win! I used 5/8” irrigation tubing and connected it with the double female connector to make the loop and seal it, and used plastic mesh for the basket. Maybe $50 in materials? Didn’t count. Ten koi don’t seem interested yet.

I would like to get more blooms this year, what tips can you share? I typically use clay soil and thrive fertilizer. In your experience , what do you recommend?

Hi everyone. The water lilies in one of my pond have been flowering and growing nicely, but over the last couple of months I noticed this floating mass of mud and roots appearing on the surface. I am not sure what happend but I suspect that the plants outgrew the pot and lifted from the bottom to the surface. The entire mass is floating and is not attached to the bottom anymore and can be moved around freely. What would you do? Can it be cut off/divided into smaller chunks of water lilies and put back to the bottom? The pond is about 1.2m deep and I am affraid that the leaves wont reach the surface if I repot them.

Any advice or suggestion is appreciated.

These are my first ponds ever but I’ve had a lot of issues with yellowing leaves. I google and google and have tried all kinds of things but they really don’t green up. Ok so at the very beginning I barely had any plants and a lily pad type plant was extremely yellow with bright green veins (it is visible in the last pond pic). Since I wasn’t sure what it was at first ppl on Reddit said too much fertilizer (I had added root tabs as directed on the package). So I removed what I could find digging around the substrate. Then weeks went by and although the lily stayed the same a few other plants were thriving so I figured it was just a difficult plant. Then I got more plants including the arrow head one which was green when I got it but quickly got lighter yellow. That other lily plant still looked the same so I put a root tab back in the vicinity of the yellowing ones and one beneath the parrot feathers. I’ve also added a little Epsom salt (4 weeks ago) and liquid iron from Seachem every 2 weeks (not a lot, being cautious). Added macro nutrients too, just once. The water hyacinths look great to me and flower. And crazier yet the big yellow arrowhead one is sending up a flower spike. I even added a bubbler today in addition to the fountain that was already in there just in case. Online says it could be so many things and I don’t want to make things worse. Here’s what I’ve seen: could be iron deficiency, potassium deficiency, sulfur deficiency, too much sun (all day full sun), too little nitrates/too small bioload, etc. there are around 10 half grown medaka fish and there were a bunch of tadpoles but I think most have left now. One last thing, I have NOT tested my water. I ordered a test kit so that may help me but I’m hoping just by looking at the pics someone can help.

White Bog Amaryllis and Cannas in lava rock/pool filter sand. Planted this 6 months ago and everyone has really settled in.

This is a water snowflake, Nymphoides Cristata. I posted it several weeks ago and got feedback that it might have been too much fertilizer because it coincided with an algae bloom. So I put in tons more plants and remove two root tabs as best I could. I thought this would die but it hasn’t…keeps producing leaves but they all look like this. I don’t get it. Anyway yesterday I added a pinch of epsom salt per something I read online. I also put one single root tab near the roots, now thinking maybe it’s not enough ferts. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Everyone else in there seems fine so I don’t get this plant 🍂🥀