Author Topic: My very first waterlily blooms (Read 2295 times)

tweetybaby2005 · « **on:** July 10, 2008, 11:34:46 AM »

I can't help but get excited to see that the waterlilies I got from a friend of mine are blooming. Since this is the first time I see waterlilies blooming in my own backyard, I have to post to share. I don't know the names of the lilies though so they will remain unnamed.

Kuan

Julles · « **Reply #1 on:** July 10, 2008, 11:36:46 AM »

How wonderful! I'm still waiting for mine to put out a bud, so I'm totally jealous. The white one looks very compact. Pretty!

Bartman · « **Reply #2 on:** July 10, 2008, 11:38:32 AM »

I remember the first time I got a bloom. I thought it was the most magical thing I had ever seen so I totally know how you feel.

Bart

joeyb5980 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 10, 2008, 11:54:47 AM »

Congrats! They look great

Desertponder · « **Reply #4 on:** July 10, 2008, 01:18:54 PM »

Congrats on your first lily blooms!

The first ones are always so exciting. But if you fall in love with lilies like many of us have, every bloom is exciting.

Ky Kim · « **Reply #5 on:** July 10, 2008, 02:50:32 PM »

Congrats. I also remember when I had my first bloom. It is so exciting and a great feeling of accomplishment.
Your blooms are very pretty.

Kim

Kat · « **Reply #6 on:** July 10, 2008, 02:52:21 PM »

Derrick · « **Reply #7 on:** July 10, 2008, 04:05:53 PM »

Our first blooms share a birthday then because I had mine today as well !!! LOL...photo in the gallery section...

But you are up on me 2 to 1, so mine better get busy!

tweetybaby2005 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 10, 2008, 04:22:33 PM »

Thanks everyone. Thank goodness for digital camera because I have no idea how many I have taken until I was satisfied with "the" one pic for each of the blooms.

DH missed the blooms because he was working. By the time he came home, they have already closed up. There is another bud emerging so I'll have to see what color that one is.

Kuan

EagleEye · « **Reply #9 on:** July 10, 2008, 06:13:21 PM »

Congratulations on your very first blooms

@O@o
I think that my most memorable ponding experience was my first pads

Have fun,
Steve

water_sprite · « **Reply #10 on:** July 10, 2008, 06:25:21 PM »

Congrats on your first blooms.

You're in trouble now cuz your gonna want many more and in lots of different colors!

Brenda

Ruthie · « **Reply #11 on:** July 10, 2008, 06:53:36 PM »

Isn't it wonderful? There is something just so amazing about these plants

congratulations!

bunny56lbc · « **Reply #12 on:** July 10, 2008, 08:10:11 PM »

bonnie

landey1230 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 10, 2008, 09:12:01 PM »

Good job. It took me lots of trials and errors to get a bloom. Looks like you're a natural.

SueSTx · « **Reply #14 on:** July 11, 2008, 06:15:19 AM »

After 6 years I'm still excited every day to see "how many" blooms I have and especially when a lily that didn't do well last year puts on a show.

Welcome to our addiction.

tweetybaby2005 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 11, 2008, 10:23:21 AM »

Thank you all for the kind words. I found another bud in the pond. The first 2 are in my lily tub (40 gallon tub) but the one I found this morning is in my pond!!

I am so excited. I keep going out there checking on the buds just to make sure they have or have not opened. I am officially hooked to waterlilies and lotus. I have told DH to go ahead and put a bid in on the 5 acres and I have several plans to put a lotus pond and a lily pond plus my big 'ol fish pond on the land.

You should have seen his face after I went on and on about my pond plans.

Kuan

Joyce · « **Reply #16 on:** July 11, 2008, 11:12:26 AM »

AWESOME!

No one ever forgets their first!

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #17 on:** July 11, 2008, 11:16:49 AM »

Congrats on the first of many to come!!!

Vickie · « **Reply #18 on:** July 11, 2008, 07:38:00 PM »

My first water lily bloom was in the summer of 1981. I had a cow tank my kids swam in and I decided to put water lilies in it. Back in 1981 lilies were hard to find. But I found three that year, and the rest is history.

Jonna · « **Reply #19 on:** July 11, 2008, 10:44:05 PM »

I remember my first blooms too at the pond in Cathedral City and how miraculous they seemed coming up from under the water. Congratulations! I can't wait to have blooms at my new house.

happyoutsidegirl · « **Reply #20 on:** July 12, 2008, 04:17:10 AM »

All right!!!!! yep now your hooked for good!