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Pond Chat / Re: What kind of frog?

« on: April 14, 2009, 07:12:15 AM »

looks like an american bullfrog to me.

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Pond Chat / Re: The most expensive water lily I've ever bought

« on: April 13, 2009, 10:12:23 AM »

No That one went to Louanns.

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Pond Chat / Re: The most expensive water lily I've ever bought

« on: April 13, 2009, 08:15:40 AM »

Yeah I wish I could remember where I got it. I was on  the old awgs forum at the time. Even Albert Greenbergs and older lilies were priced in their high thirties. It might have been the place Sue and them owned.

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Pond Chat / Re: The most expensive water lily I've ever bought

« on: April 12, 2009, 09:52:50 PM »

I paid well over a Hundred dollars for my first Fox Fire, I cant for the life of me remember where I bought it but at the time they were the only ones you could get it from.

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Pond Chat / Re: Queen of Siam vivips in aquarium.

« on: March 15, 2009, 09:09:16 AM »

I never ever had a queen of siam form any babies. They are the hardest I have ever owned to get to propigate this way.

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Pond Chat / Re: I see lily pads!

« on: March 05, 2009, 04:02:24 PM »

Kat I wished mine looked like that. I need so bad to clean out my ponds. I sure could use a lot of help but it aint available around here.

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Pond Chat / Re: Tranquility or Lawanna

« on: March 01, 2009, 08:54:28 AM »

Thanks Nancy she called me yesterday. I hope you are doing ok.

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Pond Chat / Re: 2 years of muck from unfiltered water

« on: February 27, 2009, 09:12:04 AM »

Well that is probably how bad mine looks. my below ground looks worse I am sure. I am going to clean both now that I got somewhere to put the fish. I will be tearing down the above ground most likely unless I get the energy to bebuild it.

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Pond Chat / Tranquility or Lawanna

« on: February 27, 2009, 09:07:00 AM »

Has anybody talked to her in a while? I tried calling but did not get an answer just wondering if anyone has seen her,.

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Pond Chat / Re: Migraine from hell and water lily blooms

« on: June 20, 2007, 02:19:57 PM »

That white bloom does not ever look like the other at all. That is so strange, The other blooms looked more frilly or delicate.

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Pond Chat / Re: Unknown white

« on: June 20, 2007, 02:17:59 PM »

maybe you could email a pic to the slocum nursery and they could tell you what it is for sure since that is where Rebekah got them from.

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Pond Chat / Re: Unknown white

« on: June 20, 2007, 02:15:29 PM »

I dont think so but it does kind of look like white 1000 petals by slocum. Now this is not a great pic but the petals look more like it than they do the odorata

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Pond Chat / Re: Unknown white

« on: June 20, 2007, 01:59:16 PM »

Maybe it is a sport off of Lilypons.

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Pond Chat / First hardy to bloom from seed for me.

« on: June 20, 2007, 01:37:08 PM »

They sprouted in a whiskey barrel last spring and I left them alone until this spring.

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Pond Chat / Re: Unknown white

« on: June 20, 2007, 11:45:18 AM »

Very nice looking lily. I love white liles. I also love having azzola. I keep it in a small pool to feed the Koi they love it.

Shanna I cant find that lily anywhere on Victoria. It almost looks like a white Lilypons/

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Pond Chat / Re: What a difference two months makes

« on: June 20, 2007, 09:11:23 AM »

Well I actually got my shade cloth from a place in Oklahoma City called american plant products. If you are just looking for a shade cloth try one of the nurseries in your area and ask them if they have a suppliers name you could call.

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Pond Chat / Re: What a difference two months makes

« on: June 20, 2007, 07:19:21 AM »

Thanks guys.
Jerry It is an old stuppy greenhouse. It is 30' x 96' It still has the plastic cover on top so no rain gets in. It also has a new shade cloth.

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Pond Chat / Re: What a difference two months makes

« on: June 19, 2007, 07:34:16 PM »

Thanks I am pretty pleased with the pond now. I do wish I had more time and a better back so I could pull a few more weeds.

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Pond Chat / Re: Albert Greenberg tropical

« on: June 19, 2007, 07:31:29 PM »

Mine have been so beautiful. I owe a special thanks to Lawanna for keeping them for me. I wished I had taken pics today. I placed one of them near a colorado. I have never really like colorado but I keep it. Anyway it had maybe 7 blooms on it and my albert had about 4 and together they made a pretty good show. I have about 5 alberts now but never get tired of them.

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Pond Chat / Re: Amazon Swordplant goes in the pond... what could go wrong? :)

« on: June 19, 2007, 06:07:52 PM »

Looks great. I had heard that they were not really an underwater plant but I guess yours proves it pretty much.

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Pond Chat / Re: Hey Gander

« on: June 19, 2007, 06:06:21 PM »

Very pretty Jen. I need to cut all mine back, they are so full of old blooms right now. They have really been blooming better than any I have ever had.

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Pond Chat / Re: Hello everyone!

« on: June 19, 2007, 04:37:21 PM »

Hello Tammie long time since we have talked. I still have the Robert Strawn you sent me years ago. gary

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Pond Chat / What a difference two months makes

« on: June 19, 2007, 03:33:08 PM »

There is 2 months between these pics.   

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Pond Chat / Re: Tropicals Tropicals Tropicals [lots of pics]

« on: June 17, 2007, 11:02:26 AM »

Stop it Enzo I dont have any more room. You are making me want more lilies. I love the Larp and the blue aster. I did not think there was any true larps left.

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Pond Chat / Re: can you put small bass or brim in with your goldfish ???

« on: June 13, 2007, 03:07:03 PM »

Bass will eat any fish they can get in their mouths and love goldfish.

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Pond Chat / Re: Blooming this week.

« on: June 13, 2007, 10:35:21 AM »

They sure look great mary.

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Pond Chat / Re: Can you help maybe I dentify this lily.

« on: June 12, 2007, 04:33:16 PM »

All three lilies are like weeds here. The more they are ignored and mistreated the more tubers and new plants provided.  At least  Al and Miami Rose have beautiful flowers. I have a "purple Indian Goddess" at least that what it was called when I traded for it.  When you let the pot dry out, all you did was to incourage it. The second tropical I ever bought was Dir Moore ( from Rich Sacher's American Aquatic Gardens) 15 years ago.  The next spring by the middle of May nothing was happening in its pot. All my other lilies ahd returned nicely. I take the pot out of the pond and sit it by the shed. Two months later the soil was hard as a rock. I needed the pot for another lily. Being lazy I did not change the soil and stuck another lily in the pot.  A couple of weeks later I check the pot and here comes the Director.  I have overwintered Dir. Moore here in the ponds for 15 years now.

Did your Miami Rose return this year?

Yeah I gots lots of Miami Rose but Lawanna kept them for me. Trops are not supposed to winter over here although I have quite a few that I left out that made it. None of the large  vivps made it but all the pots of babies and some seedlings wintered over.

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Pond Chat / Re: Can you help maybe I dentify this lily.

« on: June 12, 2007, 04:30:29 PM »

I gotta say it!  I told you so!     Yeah for me, I was right!  Sorry tho Gary... I'm fighting the same fight!  Darn things keep popping up everywhere!  I just send them to Lawanna!   
Tammie

Yeah thats where I saw my first one. I bought these from a local store real cheap and they said they were green smoke and albert greenberg. This one did not bloom last year that I remember and Mitchkin took the other one home. 

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Pond Chat / Re: Can you help maybe I dentify this lily.

« on: June 12, 2007, 12:51:15 PM »

Well I finally got a bloom but coming out on the lily. I hate this. I left it out to freeze and it did not. I sat the pot out to dry out so I could reuse it. Well it rained and sprouted. I had hoped this was a lily I liked. Well it turns out that it is this. My cousin has been asking me if I had any extra blue lilies. I guess I can unload it on her She used to be my ponding buddy but she fell and broke her leg and hip going on three years ago and she still has to use crutches to get around.

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Pond Chat / Re: In the 30s today

« on: June 11, 2007, 01:54:43 PM »

Of course seeing the lilies is always nice too. We had a storm this morning. and it messed some of the lilies up though.