how is a water lily different from a water hycinth
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Explanation:
Water lilies root in heavy clay soil at the bottom or the edge of a pond. They can be grown in pots, as well, for many years. Use fertilizer pellets to keep them blooming and growing healthy leaves. Their flat leaves float on the surface of the water. Many water lilies are cold hardy, going dormant in the winter. Flowers are beautiful. There are tropical water lilies that can be overwintered indoors, but it is difficult to do. I had customers who bought lilies every year from Lilipons in Adamstown, Maryland.
Water hyacinth, on the other hand, is a tropical plant, and floats of the surface of the water. It has rounded rich green leaves that rise above the water, and purplish flowers. Left outside in a cold winter, it will die.
For almost 30 years, I had a small pond in the back yard. There were 3 large pots of hardy lilies (soft pink, pale yellow, and white), and goldfish that I bought as inexpensive feeder fish. The great blue herons sometimes made off with the larger ones who didn’t hide fast enough. One day, from the kitchen window, I could see the weeds rustling behind the pond. When I went outside to check it out, a huge snapping turtle slipped into the pond. I noticed that all the fish were gone, and so were the water lilies! After I managed to push this smelly snapping turtle into the recycle bin (its shell filled the bottom of the bin), I pulled up the pots. The turtle had eaten not only the leaves but also had bitten through the heavy black nursery pots to get to the tubers in the soil! Polyester fiberfill covered the soil, so he had to go another way… He was a nasty one—-don’t ever mess with a snapping turtle! (Btw, it was taken to a park ranger at a local lake.) They can extend their necks way out of the shell and take your fingers off