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white water lily


white water lily (Nymphaea)

Yippee the first of the year for me here... i do like these..



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Ooh lovely mine arent flowering yet!

16 Jun, 2012

 

Stunning!

16 Jun, 2012

 

Very nice SL.

16 Jun, 2012

 

Oh yes, that is lovely! Congrats on that Slad. :) All your orchids are beautiful too!

16 Jun, 2012

 

Love it too!

16 Jun, 2012

 

Wow! Congratulation.! :)) Do lilies have also names?

17 Jun, 2012

 

lovely SL :))

17 Jun, 2012

 

that is so pretty! :-)

17 Jun, 2012

 

thanks everyone :-)
Kat yes they are Nyphaea, this is the common white one but i also have 3 others as well.. :-)

17 Jun, 2012

 

thats beautiful!!

18 Jun, 2012

 

Thanks Sticki :-))

18 Jun, 2012

 

saw these growing wild last week, amazing!!!

18 Jun, 2012

 

wild i bet that was nice, where have you been then some where nice i hope :-)

18 Jun, 2012

 

outer hebrides surreylad! you would think it would be terrible weather but not so ~ they have had no rain for 8 weeks!!!

18 Jun, 2012

 

Sounds lovely Sticki, blimey 8 weeks no rain, Hope you had a great time :-)

18 Jun, 2012

 

i loved it surreylad, took so many pictures its taking me a while to sort them out but i will do a blog when sorted.

18 Jun, 2012

 

sounds fab, i look forward to it :-)

18 Jun, 2012

 

thanks SL, it is a very beautiful place, if it wasnt so far away i would be living there.

18 Jun, 2012

 

Wow sounds great, i've never been there so i will eagerly be waiting for your blog...

18 Jun, 2012

 

i cant do it justice SL, i will try to show you some of it but you have to go there really!!!

18 Jun, 2012

 

when the girls are older then, i'll have to take them :-)

18 Jun, 2012

 

i think so!! if they like wild places, beautiful beaches, birds and quiet they would love it.

Geraniumdad went there last year too.

18 Jun, 2012

 

Beautiful, SL!! :)

18 Jun, 2012

 

Sticki, They like wild places but also like swimming so if there's a pool they are happy..

Thanks Karen :-)

18 Jun, 2012

 

Tarbert has a new pool!!!

18 Jun, 2012

 

that's sold it then :-)) definitely got to go...

18 Jun, 2012

 

http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/isl/hearadh/index.asp

not very big pictures though, sorry!!

18 Jun, 2012

 

Thanks, It looks lovely the pools :-) the girls would really love it..

20 Jun, 2012

 

:-)

btw i found my pineapple lilies ~ all 6 of them!!!!!!!!!!!

20 Jun, 2012

 

excellent, how are they doing?

22 Jun, 2012

 

not so bad, the pineapple bit is nearly 2" in some of them!! hopefully they are still growing!!

22 Jun, 2012

 

yes they should be fine :-)

22 Jun, 2012

 

be interesting to compare the ones that had cups of tea and those that didnt!!!

22 Jun, 2012

 

yes i'd be interested to see the difference :-)

22 Jun, 2012

 

at the moment very little difference but i will keep watching, i planted them too closely together!

22 Jun, 2012

 

i see, :-)

23 Jun, 2012

 

My Eucomis has put a spurt on again as well, I planted too near a Heuchera I think but it's getting there.

23 Jun, 2012

 

excellent Pimms, it's been an odd year weather wise for these types of plants...

23 Jun, 2012



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