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Seedfork said:But, the article says that Lee Pickles successfully "overwintered" his daylilies in these water beds, so I am assuming it originally had something more behind the idea that just keeping the plants watered during dry weather? That might be a good enough reason on its own to do it, but I would love to find out what made him try it though the winter, (just absent minded like me and forgot to drain the water bed) and found out they all lived ?

Lee Pickles put his seedling in the outside water beds (after being grown in his greenhouse in water beds until after they bloom) too see if they would survive being overwintered in them. I think they survived because they were fully grown, mature fans when he put them in there (looking at his photos). If they would have been baby seedlings then they may have not fared so well.

Tommy Maddox puts his seedlings in the water beds outside when they are 6 weeks old