Plant Encyclopedia: Water Lily

Must Know Plant Care Tips: Generally speaking, the more sunlight your water lilies get, the more they will bloom and flourish. Tropical water lilies would be planted in pots that are at least 10″ around. Use a 10 to 14 inch fabric pot will be required for each plant. Fill it about half full with a loam garden soil, then add 3 or 4 tablets of fertilizer and fill the pot the rest of the way, til you’re about 2″ from the top. Set tubers upright with the roots gently buried in the soil. Leave the top of the tuber exposed and cover it with an inch or two of pea gravel or sand.

Plant Problem Solver: Water lilies are perfect, of course, for water gardens where you want brilliant color and have good sunlight. If yo plant them in shady conditions, you may get foliage but very few flowers.

Pretty Pairings: You can plant water lilies with other aquatic plants such as lotus, common water hyacinth, water lettuce, neptunia, and lucky 4-leaf clover.