A "hardy" blue waterlily.

[turtlemike]

This is a Rhonda Kay tropical waterlily that was planted in my big pond in spring of 07.        It successfully over wintered  without any special treatment that winter of 07-08.     This is a picture of it this summer.    I have not touched it, no fertilizer no weeding,no nuthing.  It's growing in the pond bottom just like my hardies.    It would have done much better if I had weeded it and fertilized it.         I have a gallon or two of these tubers and this spring I'm going to make a bed of these and really test there hardiness.   I have also left out 10 or so pots of R. Kay this winter to test along with a bunch of dauben plants in pots to see if any make it.         Rhonda Kay is a great plant,great color,doesn't care what the temperature is and is hard to kill.  Makes lots of tubers that are practically indestructible.     Growth rhizomes when allowed to go dormant make multiple plants in the spring and are storable like tubers in  damp peat moss.      At least that is my experience with Rhonda Kay so far.      I would like it if others that grow R.Kay would comment on there experiences with this plant.     Mike.   

[marla]

Thanks mike for your experience with Rhonda Kay... I always like finding out how lilies do for others before making a choice, especially when it comes to tropicals because in my temps they are short lived and I like to have good bloomers.

[Ky Kim]

Rhonda Kay is one of my most fav. lilies.  I have had her the past 2 or 3 summers, stick her in the gh tank during the winter and she comes right back in the spring ready to bloom.  Can't wait to see your outcome of your experiment.

Kim

[mailman221]

Mike, where are you located.

[Sunbeam56]

Kat sent me a R.Kay as a bonus in a postage/pip deal. 

When it arrived, I wasn't expecting it - and had to run. So, to keep it alive, I just tossed it into the front pond, in the shallow end so I could find it again. When I got back tuit three days later, it had happily rooted and was taking off. So I left it.

Because its planted too shallow, it has dried out three times (I top off the pond when it hasn't rained - its a rain collecting puddle that was enhanced). We've had freezing weather, which caused the leaves to curl.
The thing is still blooming. With the colder temps, the blooms are smaller. But you can look down from the bridge and its got a dozen or so buds just waiting for the chance to raise above the surface and go off 

To say I'm thrilled is not an understatement. 

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