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Pond Chat / Re: How bout some more Lotus bloom pics

« on: July 19, 2009, 01:14:39 PM »

Amazing!!!

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Chit Chat / Re: Is anyone going to see harry potter tonight?

« on: July 16, 2009, 04:21:53 PM »

You mean last oneS. They are not eliminating any content (or as much) from the final book and are breaking it into 2 movies. It will keep the saga going a little longer for the fans and they get to milk it for all it is worth (a lot)!

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Chit Chat / Re: Is anyone going to see harry potter tonight?

« on: July 15, 2009, 08:47:23 PM »

Just got home from seeing it--very good! We also have a fantastic drive-in, but we wanted to see this one on a higher quality screen.

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Pond Chat / Re: Duck Weed - it's illegal ya know, and here's why...

« on: July 12, 2009, 01:10:49 PM »

A few years back, we rented a house in Florida. I really enjoyed living there, it had a natural pond in the yard and tons of wildlife, right in the middle of the city. Anyway, a few years before we rented it, there was a flood, and a neighboring pond containing duckweed overflowed into the rental house's pond. Just the tiniest bit of duckweed overtook the entire thing--it looked like a putting green. We offered to buy triploid carp from the state in an effort to clean it up, or even to install some sort of aereation/fountain, or herbicide to help.

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Pond Chat / Re: Saturday, July 25....SoCal Pond Party/Greet Jessica

« on: July 12, 2009, 08:20:38 AM »

Mikey, if I remember correctly, you are a retired police officer, so no worries!

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Pond Chat / Re: Saturday, July 25....SoCal Pond Party/Greet Jessica

« on: July 11, 2009, 04:35:22 PM »

It is 100 in Dallas right now. I am looking forward to cooling off in Cali!

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Chit Chat / Re: Trains, Mexican border & the zoo...... That was my 4th of July....

« on: July 10, 2009, 07:44:32 PM »

Awesome! I am looking forward to San Diego at the end of the month.

LeeAnne, come to SoCal this month for the pond gathering! It would be fun to finally meet you!

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Chit Chat / Re: Death of a forum member

« on: July 10, 2009, 06:44:59 PM »

We messaged back and forth quite a bit when I moved to Dallas. We never got organized enough to arrange a get together. I am sorry to hear of his passing.

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Pond Chat / Re: Saturday, July 25....SoCal Pond Party/Greet Jessica

« on: July 08, 2009, 07:03:17 PM »

Yep, I'm done at 2 p.m. on Saturday! 

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Pond Chat / Re: Saturday, July 25....SoCal Pond Party/Greet Jessica

« on: July 08, 2009, 05:21:03 PM »

Awesome! I am staying at the Anaheim convention center. Let me double check my meeting plans for the day.

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Pond Chat / Re: So California Pond Party, a few concerns. (This thread is not locked. It was by

« on: June 29, 2009, 05:36:10 PM »

Well, I'll be stationed across from Disneyland. How far are all of you from Anaheim? I'm sure I could definitely meet some forum friends for lunch or dinner. If not, I won't be too heartbroken--I have a ton of stuff to do at the meeting!

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Pond Chat / Re: So California Pond Party, a few concerns. (This thread is not locked. It was by

« on: June 29, 2009, 09:24:50 AM »

Hey Jerry,

Thanks for being so accomodating. We take care of my husband's grandma and just had to move her to a new place yesterday--her retirement community closed. Anyway, it was well over 100 degrees and took 12 hours and three truck loads to finish. It nearly killed DH and I! She has some really nice (but super heavy) pieces. She also chose a second floor apartment, so we had stairs to deal with. Anyway, my point is, I can totally understand your concerns. My recommendation is to have it when regularly scheduled in September.

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Tropicals wanted-

« on: June 27, 2009, 04:42:18 PM »

I should have mentioned this was at least 5 years ago and Sandy at ewaterlily sent me replacement plants that really were what they should have been. The problem was with the grower in this case. If it's a pretty old variety, it is probably unlikely to find the real deal.

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Pond Chat / Re: Pond Pix 6-23-09...

« on: June 27, 2009, 02:37:53 PM »

 

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Tropicals wanted-

« on: June 27, 2009, 02:35:03 PM »

I ordered a Leopardess from ewaterlily a few years ago that ultimately came from FAN. It was a purple seedling, definitely not the real deal. Just my 2 cents!! This is the 'Leopardess Imposter' I received.

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: FREE tropical lily with purchase of 5

« on: June 25, 2009, 06:37:04 PM »

Sounds good. I will be in Plano in the afternoon and call you when I finish at the hospital. Thanks!!

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: FREE tropical lily with purchase of 5

« on: June 25, 2009, 04:03:43 PM »

Kat, I would like to buy red Indian goddess and pink flamingo. Would late Friday afternoon or Saturday work for you ( assuming these two are still available)?

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Pond Chat / Cute little Ostara bloom

« on: June 25, 2009, 11:05:42 AM »

I keep my tropicals out all winter here in zone 7/8 Dallas. I can't believe they make it trough the winter, containers covered in ice, etc. Anyway, it takes them a little longer to get going each summer since they die back completely each winter. Here's a cute little bloom off of Ostara today.

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Pond Chat / Re: Has anyone bought from utopia aquatic?

« on: June 25, 2009, 11:03:40 AM »

Lorenzo is AWESOME!! 

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Pond Chat / Re: Does one tropical lily only produce one tuber?

« on: June 22, 2009, 09:20:04 PM »

MJ, I'm not sure what that means on the tutorial, about the turned rhizome. I have always been under the impression that plants grow up and away from a rhizome, so when you plant a hardy waterlily for example, the base of the rhizome (opposite the growing point) should go against the side wall of the pot so that the plant has the entire pot to grow across. The Ostara I sent you was one out of four tubers in my pot from the winter. You can also pluck newer plants off of tubers and float them in your pond/container to stress them into forming a young tuber (light brown, like in Michelle's pics). I often did this in the fall in Florida to help ensure my tropicals would overwinter.

Michelle, I hope an expert can chime in here, I am curious now, too. I think that the terms tuber and corm are often interchanged. From what little information I gathered in some online searches, and a quick browse through an old book (encyclopedia of the water-lily by Masters) I guess waterlilies technically have tubers and rhizomes. Corms are in other plants such as taro and gladiolas, which have layers. The definitions of each are pretty vague.

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Chit Chat / Re: Took these way back when it was sunny...

« on: June 21, 2009, 07:58:22 AM »

Lovely! I especially like that orange day lily.

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Chit Chat / Re: I laid flagstone, but... Pictures added !

« on: June 21, 2009, 07:57:11 AM »

Jerry, it looks fantastic! Good job!

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Chit Chat / Re: We survived.

« on: June 21, 2009, 07:53:05 AM »

Congratulations! Sounds like a perfect party.

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Pond Chat / Re: Does one tropical lily only produce one tuber?

« on: June 20, 2009, 12:55:29 PM »

Looks good. I would call the tan things tubers, which are probably synonymous with corms.

There are tons of articles on waterlily cultivation over at Victoria-Adventure (http://www.victoria-adventure.org/waterlilies/cultivation.html). Specifically, here is one with photos similar to the ones posted by Michelle. http://www.victoria-adventure.org/waterlilies_images/divide/page1.html

Maybe you can find some additional topics covered there? Most of the articles are written by folks who have been watergardening since before I was born!

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Aquatic and Terrestrial Plant Exchange / Re: Extra hardies and a bundle of parrot feather for sale (updated)

« on: June 18, 2009, 04:08:18 PM »

Sorry, I'm all out. If I have more to share, I will definitely post on this forum.

Thanks again!!

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Chit Chat / Re: Screen name significance?

« on: June 14, 2009, 07:23:33 PM »

My name here is just my name. My email addy was set up during high school and is slugbug because I loved (and later drove) a VW beetle.

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Pond Chat / Re: Can anyone identify this tropical for me?

« on: June 13, 2009, 04:46:00 PM »

Please take a photo of the top and bottom of the pads, it will give us more clues.

With Siam in the name, that could have been Star of Siam, it's a very light blue. King of Siam is a dark purple with several smaller petals in the middle, like a mum. There technically are very few 'blue' or 'red' tropicals. Most are either purple or pink. If it is Tina, she's a really good tropical!

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Pond Chat / First bloom on bowl lotus 'Little Golden Phoenix' -- Thanks Matherfish!

« on: June 13, 2009, 08:16:56 AM »

I purchased this bowl lotus in one of materfish's stimulous packages this spring. I can't believe one has bloomed already! It's a very soft yellow with the slightest pink dot on the tips of the petals. I like it! The stem is a little bent from the wild winds we had a few nights ago.

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Pond Chat / Re: Unusual Leaves

« on: June 11, 2009, 07:00:26 PM »

Please enlist me! I can put it in a small pot in a container pond. 

Very cool!

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Pond Chat / Re: News said no rain .... well, they lied!

« on: June 11, 2009, 08:29:43 AM »

Same stuff at my place, but that's just because I am a few miles away. I am in grapevine now and it is storming like crazy. Today's forecast says it will reach 97 before more severe storms this afternoon. Fun stuff.