I have no idea what’s in which pot now.
(The plant in the foreground is the Sarracenia psittacina I lifted out of the bog last year.)
Last year, Madame bloomed for a week in the middle of August. This year (so far) a single day in June. That is ‘Almost Black’ which has never bloomed before.
This one bloomed earlier this year.
Last year, it opened on August 13. The bud was up on Saturday and it opened on Sunday. And there’s another bud coming up.
The other 2 don’t have any buds and I decided they were too crowded in their shared pot. Man! They were root bound!
I have cut them apart and replanted them in separate pots with good soil around their abused roots. I’m thinking that I’ll lift all 3 of them out of their pots when they’re dormant this Fall and set them down to free range in the bottom to see how that goes.
I would love to see the purple ‘Almost Black’ and white ‘Virginiana’ blooming along with this ‘Madama Wilfron Gonnere’.
Pete’s been at it again.
I’m not sure the bucket is the best choice.
I may add the bucket water to the water garden.
I put 3 water lilies in 2 pots when I started this water garden 2 years ago. It looks like all 3 have made it through another winter.
I think I’ve named these correctly. These are the names I recorded of the plants I bought.
…and Chuck enabled me. I got another 100 gallon water trough and this time it’s going to hold water.
As a water garden.
And I found 2 varieties of waterlily (‘Madame Wilfron Gonnere’ and ‘Almost Black’) and a spiral reed at Southern States.
I haven’t finished putting it all together to be lovely. But, they are in the trough with enough water to stay healthy until we decide how to arrange things.
We’re debating adding fish.
I am the Audience 