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Gardening in mediterranean climates => Water => Topic started by: Charithea on August 09, 2014, 05:18:02 PM
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Test message. I have been learning how to post photos. This was the nearest pic.
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When we did a teachers' day at Sparoza I happened to have masses of off-shoots of a nano water lily to give as presents. I demonstrated how they could be planted in any sort of vessel, but the one I kept in a big flower pot has failed to flower so I'm jealous to see yours flowering away. In the pond proper it's fine.
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Fleur, we have 2 of these tanks. They are 80cms in diameter by 50/60cms deep. We got them from Andreas Protopapas, a well-known waterlily breeder here in Cyprus (he's won competitions in the US and provided plants for the RHS garden at Wisley in the past). He orders them from a company in Italy.
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Hi Fleur, I have learnt how to minimize pics last night at Markos' birthday party. Now I shall bore you all with my photos. I am sending the photos of the Nymphaea Escarboucle. It flowers non stop. It loves the hot sun.
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Sorry this is the other pic.
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Your water lilies are looking really good Charithea.
I love Escarboucle. I used to grow it in England. It was free flowering there too.
Is that Nymphaea pygmaea Helvolva in the first photo?
Daisy :)
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Hello Daisy, thank you. They are so reliable. The Escarboucle always come first and then the rest follow until Autumn. The yellow Nymphaea is Moorei or mooreana. It was just opening that is why it looks small and also because I am a bad photographer and I took it from the wrong angle. Charithea
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Our first flowers of this season.
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John, are those in the containers you said were 80cm wide by 50/60cm deep, or in a bigger pond?
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These are both in the containers, Alisdair.
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Completely off the subject but while I was answering Alisdair's question I spotted something in the second water lily photo. Can anyone else see what appears to be a small creature in the water in the second photo? Below the top flower and above the leaf, it's grey with a white face and a large ear sticking out to the side. Or are the years catching up with me and I'm starting to see things?
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My goodness, what is it?
Have you gone out to look for it again?
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Looks like a specimen of Unidentificatus horridus to me, or perhaps its just some kind of seed pod? ::)
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I did check yesterday and there is absolutely nothing there. I took the following photo this morning before the flowers opened and as can be seen there is only the play of light on the water and the weeds. The human brain is hard-wired to attempt to make sense of random images and so may see such things as faces where none exist.
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Naiads seems to have sprung to maturity almost instantly, so if it was a baby naiad she may already now be lurking full-sized somewhere else waiting to spirit you away, John!
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Being spirited away might not be a bad thing, Alisdair, if it was to the Elysian Fields as described by Plutarch.
"These are two in number, separated by a very narrow strait; they are ten thousand furlongs distant from Africa, and are called the Islands of the Blest. They enjoy moderate rains at long intervals, and winds which for the most part are soft and precipitate dews, so that the islands not only have a rich soil which is excellent for plowing and planting, but also produce a natural fruit that is plentiful and wholesome enough to feed, without toil or trouble, a leisured folk. Moreover, an air that is salubrious, owing to the climate and the moderate changes in the seasons, prevails on the islands. For the north and east winds which blow out from our part of the world plunge into fathomless space, and, owing to the distance, dissipate themselves and lose their power before they reach the islands; while the south and west winds that envelope the islands sometimes bring in their train soft and intermittent showers, but for the most part cool them with moist breezes and gently nourish the soil."
Sounds pretty much like heaven to me!
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There's been nothing on here for a while so I'm posting a few of our water-lilies that are on show today.
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Perfect
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Beautiful flowers. Thank you for sharing,
Do you have a pond or do you grow them in tubs? Do you have fish to keep the mosquitoes in check? I have often wondered about procuring a half-barrel and growing some, But we have such problems here with the dreaded Tiger Mosquitoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus . They put a damper on everything from spring right through to the end of autumn.
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David, if you look back at page 1 of this thread there are a couple of photos showing our small, raised pond and one of the 2 tanks that we have. The tanks are roughly 80 cms in diameter and 50/60 cms deep. We have a variety of tiny mosquito fish, not sure which one, that keeps the dreaded beasts in check. They are live-bearers and seem to reproduce prolifically. No idea what else they eat but they never need feeding.