Very pretty. I didn't do so well with the wl's this year. Hubs tried something new - I am not sure if that is the problem or if it is something else.

Jonna-I've noticed Dauben is hard to get good pictures of. It washes out unless I use filters or other techniques to bring out the color.

Love the color changing lilies, tabby. I haven't noticed any of mine doing that, but now I'm going to watch and see.

I got another pic of the Dauben early this morning. At least you can see the blue tint a little better.

My pink tropical lilies are blooming this morning!
She blooms every week
Does anyone know what kind of pink lilies is this? Persian lilac/star pink lilies?

One thing that makes quite dissapointment is the flower cant get bigger only 2 inch although the leaves are quite big 4.5inch
Is there anything i can do to make it bigger? Or is it originally small flowers with big leaves? Please help me :)

Hendrik - do you fertilize your waterlilies? It may help as waterlilies are heavy feeders. Your waterlily may also be predisposed to the size flowers that you are seeing. Typically when buying waterlilies from a reputable source, the bloom size will be listed.

Gorgeous photos.

I just using natural fertilizer from fish waste carol
But if u say so, i will try to give the fertilizer :)
My local nurseries doesnt have the lit of bloom size
I bought it when it doesnt hv flower buds .
Starting from zero :)
So i dunno the real size of blooms
But i hopes the factory fertilizer works for it
Thanks carol

You can buy waterlily fertilizer tabs. I would be afraid to use anything else if you have any fish in your watergarden.

I ve got my first lotus blooming this year
So thrilling...

Beautiful, Milano!

Wonderful! My lotus seems to have stalled, lots of large floating leaves but no aerial leaves yet and of course, no blooms. It's nice to see your blooms, I'm envious.

Gorgeous Hendrik.

@carol : thanx carol... sure it is

@jonna : maybe u must wait a lil bit more jonna.. my opinion is just give them sunlight min at least 4 hours and raise their water level it can promote the aerial leaves from my experience

@carolyn : thank u carolyn... im so stunned with it

Beautiful bloom

@holly and becky : thank u all

Thanks Hendrik, I have now raised the water level about 3 cm. I don't have the space to raise it a lot, hopefully this will do it. They are in full sun, on my roof garden, and the water is quite warm already. I'm hoping it is not too deep, not sure what is the right depth. I felt that the previous years they were in too shallow a pot so this year I put them in the pond which is actually a large cattle trough. There is about 40cm of water over the top of the pot now. I still don't see any new leaves coming up, the older leaves are getting kind of worn and straggly, I cut some of the smaller, yellower ones off today. I fertilize it about every 10 days. We'll see.

Looking forward to pictures Jonna.

Jonna

Lets wait and see :)
Mine only around 20 cm of water level (quite deep too)
Dont give them fertilizer every 10 days, give them spare time 14 days.
If too much and too fast fertilizing your lotus will suffer burnt. Leaves become yellow and brownish very soon.

Wanna see your lotus pictures if u dunt mind

I took these pics this morning. There are 2 tubers at either end of this pond. They are both in fairly large, round plastic tubs with good compost and soil.


on this picture, if you enlarge it you can see the darker line around the top which is the amount I have raised the normal water level. I can raise it fairly safely right now because we are not yet in the rainy season but I will have to lower it when the heavy rains start or it can overflow before I get to it.


and this is the whole pond, water trough on my roof.

Jonna - That is a really cool set-up! Love it! Do post some bloom photos when they do!