Pay attention to the location and water depth
Before you use optimal care to promote the healthy growth and blooming of your water lilies, you should make sure that they are correctly placed in the pond. Water lilies love the sun and should not be shaded. However, the different varieties also require different water depths. You should adhere to these when planting, otherwise the best care is of no use.
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Only fertilize the water lily in a targeted manner
From April onwards, water lilies need nutrients so that they can start the new growing season well supplied. A liquid fertilizer would mix quickly with water and spread throughout the pond. However, nutrient-rich water favors algae growth. The water lily leaves can also absorb nutrients from water and grow excessively.
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- Put fertilizer in the substrate
- so it stays close to the roots
- Nutrients are released evenly over months
- one fertilization per year is usually sufficient
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Top up with water if necessary
Water lilies are always stuck with their roots in the water, so they do not have to be watered. But in a hot summer, when there is no rain for a long time, it can happen, especially in smaller ponds, that the water level drops sharply. This means that the ideal water depth is no longer given. In such a case, fill the pond with the hose again.
Cutting as a brake on growth
Water lilies can spread widely and cover the entire pond. They become lazy to flower and affect other plants and animals in the pond. Since water lilies that have grown stuck to the bottom of the pond are difficult or just with a lot of effort remove you should leave the water lily carpets in good time zoom out.
It is ideal if water lilies grow in plant baskets that can be easily removed from the water for pruning. Otherwise, from spring until August at the latest, you can cut off parts of the water lilies with pond scissors and remove them from the pond.
Tips
Cut and remove rotting and yellow water lily leaves as soon as possible so that they do not affect the quality of the water. With a rake you can also easily pull out individual green leaves that overlap each other from the pond.
Check for pests
Combating pests with chemicals is problematic in a pond because it ultimately reaches all living things and affects the ecological balance. You should therefore regularly check your water lilies for signs of eating as well as visible egg deposits, larvae and the gray-brown lily pad beetles. Then you can react early and collect the pests or rinse off the rose with water.
Wintering of frost-sensitive varieties
local people Species of water lilies can spend the winter in the pond, provided it does not freeze over permanently. Tropical species have to move to winter quarters from autumn. This should be light and between 23 and 25 ° C warm. Mostly the use is one Plant lamp(€ 65.50 at Amazon *) necessary.