Author Topic: The most expensive water lily I've ever bought (Read 3373 times)

Kat · « **on:** April 11, 2009, 05:52:53 AM »

OK, so I tried to order this lily last year & the company kept telling me they were sold out for the season (& it was early in the season, too!). So this year I started calling early & finally found someone that was willing to check to see if they had it. She called back & said Yes

. I was quite excited & bought it without asking too many questions. The other 2 lilies I was interested in they didn't have or none available. I got the lily & it certainly was well packed. The lily was decent sized (but by no means blooming size), all the surface pads clipped off & no roots. Still in my excitement stage & didn't pay attention to the packing slip on the outside of the box. Well, this morning I finally open the invoice & found they charged me $14.95 for shipping 1 small lily!!!

Now I'm praying to the lily goddess to keep the racoons away & that the lily will flourish

Hoping further still that it is one that multiplies rapidly, LOL. I'm not going to say which lily as I dont' want to jinx it

Racoons trashed twice one of my expensive new hardies last year. That company when I ordered it promised that it was blooming size. Well, I got it & it was one of the smallest divisions of hardies that I've ever seen. This spring it does have some tiny pads & 2 crowns. Still sending up prayers to the lily goddess

Timgod · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2009, 06:35:12 AM »

What lily was it?...Oops sorry, not trying to jinx it.
What is the name of the company?
Is it rare?

Tim

Kat · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2009, 06:59:07 AM »

Tim, I'm being weird & don't want to say the name of the lily in case I jinx it

Come to think of it, you probably have it in your private stash & you'll be offering this year, LOL

landey1230 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2009, 08:27:15 AM »

I'm superstitious as well. I don't allow my wife to wash my Philadelphia Eagles jersey. She might jinx the team next season. I'm being serious.

Timgod · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2009, 09:06:47 AM »

you know about the birds & the bees....
well I have been out playing the part of a bee..... here's to luck with crosses

I hope your lily does well Kat.

Tim

Desertponder · « **Reply #5 on:** April 11, 2009, 01:11:58 PM »

That really kind of fries me when companies charge so much extra for shipping.
Hope the lily does well for you.

tranquility · « **Reply #6 on:** April 11, 2009, 02:08:07 PM »

LOL Kat--never have spent much on plants either....and never from a catalog store(I've learned that friends from forums sell much better plants )....but, sure do remember when I bought my first asagi---a $40 petsmart koi--I was sooo happy with it...then it committed suicide--I carried that dried out dead fish around the yard crying.....John came running out thinking something terrible was wrong with me...he told me I was crazy after he found out I was crying over a dead fish.....of course now that we have Fred and Ginger I don't think I'd be the only one crying if either of them died

.....
Lawanna

landey1230 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 11, 2009, 02:58:41 PM »

Lawanna

Kat · « **Reply #8 on:** April 11, 2009, 05:15:58 PM »

Thanks for the good luck karma.

Lawanna, I understand completely. When I first started out with koi I would have jumpers. :'(

Vickie · « **Reply #9 on:** April 11, 2009, 06:01:05 PM »

I got a lily once with roots choppped off. I was very angry. It barely lived and it produced no tubers. I was tropical and it had to just try to survive all summer. I wrote them a hot email too. Why would they chop all the roots off? Idiots.
Is it tropical? what color? LOL!

marla · « **Reply #10 on:** April 12, 2009, 07:36:30 PM »

I've always had roots, but the most expensive was one I paid postage for and was the wrong one and then I paid postage again for the right one and it was still wrong.....I gave up....now I have to pretty lilies but don't know what they are except not the one I wanted.

gander · « **Reply #11 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.

Kat · « **Reply #12 on:** April 13, 2009, 04:04:35 AM »

I'll post pictures of it as soon as it blooms .... keeping my fingers crossed that it thrives.

Sounds like several of you have gotten burned on some plants. I know when I first started out someone on GardenWeb offered white tropical lilies & I sent them a Colorata via Priority. When I got my first class envelop it was 1 tiny joint of snowflake

Gary, I do believe you've got me beat on the price

gander · « **Reply #13 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.

tranquility · « **Reply #14 on:** April 13, 2009, 10:07:00 AM »

Gary do you still have that lily? at the time you had the tropical bug bad....
Lawanna

gander · « **Reply #15 on:** April 13, 2009, 10:12:23 AM »

No That one went to Louanns.

Vickie · « **Reply #16 on:** April 13, 2009, 04:16:30 PM »

I paid $60 for ampla. I won't do that again.

jclements · « **Reply #17 on:** April 14, 2009, 06:38:01 PM »

Gander, you bought it from Waterford Gardens. I got mine the same year, but it was very lucky. A WG friend begged Craig to sell her just one or two. I think she commented how her pregnant friend was dying to get one.

http://waterford-gardens.com/

Kat, let's see, what's the WG equivalent of 'break a leg'? How about 'bloom some algae'?!

bunny56lbc · « **Reply #18 on:** April 14, 2009, 06:50:25 PM »

I hope it grows for u whatever w.lily it is !
I hate it when that happens....paying $$$$ for a most wanted w.lily & getting a very small plant.

It's happened to me too .

bonnie

gander · « **Reply #19 on:** April 14, 2009, 09:17:00 PM »

Quote from: jclements on April 14, 2009, 06:38:01 PM

Gander, you bought it from Waterford Gardens. I got mine the same year, but it was very lucky. A WG friend begged Craig to sell her just one or two. I think she commented how her pregnant friend was dying to get one.

http://waterford-gardens.com/

Kat, let's see, what's the WG equivalent of 'break a leg'? How about 'bloom some algae'?!

Jessica you are right I just found where I had posted about in on Koiphen too. I just looked and they are still wanting $60.00 for it and $55.00 for a Miami Rose. Darn I have given away lots of money if you can get $55.00 for Miami Rose.

-Although weedy it is still one of my favorites.

Kat · « **Reply #20 on:** April 15, 2009, 04:47:31 AM »

Thanks Jessica & Bonnie. I looked at it yesterday & it seems to be doing fine so far.

Wow, those prices ARE up there

Kat · « **Reply #21 on:** April 29, 2009, 05:24:28 AM »

It has a tiny bud forming

tranquility · « **Reply #22 on:** April 29, 2009, 12:09:47 PM »

Quote from: Kat on April 29, 2009, 05:24:28 AM

It has a tiny bud forming

great

..make sure to post pics of it when it blooms...
Lawanna

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #23 on:** April 29, 2009, 03:30:10 PM »

Kat when you get your hands on a lily I can safely bet you can make it grow like wildflower. Hoping it makes babies so you can share with the rest of us who wish we could grow them as half as well as you (we = me

).

Kat · « **Reply #24 on:** April 29, 2009, 03:36:00 PM »

I'm keeping my fingers crossed & still offering tribute to the Lily Goddess, LOL. The other lily that I ordered last year that was too small to begin with & then the racoons trashed it several times is still hanging in there. I'm most anxious for it to thrive & bloom, too. Hopefully I'll be able to offer extras eventually

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 30, 2009, 08:52:23 AM »

I paid $30 or so for my first Helvola years ago before I had a computer and found the forum. Locally, hardies are still about that in price and tropicals around $50. I'd have no lilies if it weren't for the forum. I've spent thousands on plants but not so much on each plant......

The only time I bought a waterlily on eBay it wasn't truly named. She sent a replacement but the coons got it before it bloomed so I never knew if it was correct or not.

I don't know what they do with them but they sometimes pull my waterlilies out of their pots/mud bottom and take them away. I've found them twenty feet from the pond and some not at all. Damn raccoons. I'm soooo frustrated with them.
I can't electrify my entire yard.

gander · « **Reply #26 on:** May 19, 2009, 11:56:03 AM »

Well did it grow?

Kat · « **Reply #27 on:** May 19, 2009, 12:28:21 PM »

It is still growing, the bud didn't make it. Looks like it is like Lily Pons that it'll need a big space to grow in & time to get settled.

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #28 on:** May 19, 2009, 04:41:50 PM »

Keeping my fingers crossed for the $$ lily!

turtlemike · « **Reply #29 on:** May 20, 2009, 08:45:28 AM »

LeeAnn151, Just run one electric fence wire temporally around your most raccoon visited pond and put some aluminum foil on the wire and smear some peanut butter on it. If this doesn't completely solve your problem at least you will get some sweet revenge.