Can buy some

Both friends Tim and Ken passed away six months apart last year so your joke is very I'll timed.

If you use loam soil it will not come out of the pot. If you use something like potting soil it will float around and be muddy ... rivers, lakes, ponds in nature are all soil based and are not muddy unless something is upsetting the mud. Koi and water lilies wont be happy together, koi will dig up the mud. Goldfish are fine though.

We have planting videos, they need a wide pot, loam soil, NEVER stones, and controlled release fertilizer.

we sell fertilizer - Kitty litter trays make decent pots but round is best. We sell them to 16 inches wide by 7 deep.

Arran Ganj water lilies like direct sunlight - so a bright area for most of the day would be great for them

Any containers, fabric containers are the best, they provide air around the roots. Cheap and on our website or other sizes/deeper on Amazon.

Lindsey Marion yes! They will begin to flower in about 2-3 weeks after transplanting depending on the size of the rhizome. Water lilies are very hardy and fast growing!

A healthy happy plant has more leaves. Nutrients, proper soil, and full sun. No rocks on top the grow tip. Check and see what is missing.

Divide Perennial hardy water lilies between spring emergence out of dormancy and then up to 8 weeks prior to first frost if you live where there are cold winters. In hot climates you can divide anytime.

+Emmy Zhang Well you need to plant it properly, unfortunately most sellers have no clue what they are doing, also some sell them bareroot because the size container is not easily carried outside a truck. Did you buy it locally or have it shipped? The lily absolutely wont do anything if not properly planted, fertilized, and in direct sun.

pondmegastore I bought it locally from a huge local plant seller (about 1 month+ ago). They have this huge place full of all type of different plants. I saw this water lily with 2 flowers and it was so pretty! I bought it home and within 3 days the flower died. There was a flower bud right at the bottom and I was comforted, unfortuately for some reasons the flower bud never grew, seemed to turned black... I eventually cut it off, and no more flower buds ever since .. Even though there's no pot, the soil is still all pack together at the center of the pound, its not scattered around. not sure how they did it. I also use a ferterlizer tablet and was advice to use only once every 2 weeks. I have only use twice so far, I push it right into the center of the soil. but still no flowers =/ It's place at my balcony where there is full day sunlight and at least 4 hours of direct sunlight. Its growing new leafs everyday though... I am from Singapore by the way. Thanks so much for your reply! =)

+Emmy Zhang If it is a tropical lily the pot wont need to be so wide, they are heavy feeders so a few tablets a month is proper. 25-30 cm pot would be ok with heavy soil and fertilizer, the root sits at mud level, just roots below. The new bud aborted because the plant was disturbed. If new leaves are coming up that is good. Hopefully your pond / pot is at least 1 meter wide. More leaves and bigger leaves the more flowers. If new leaves are smaller than the old leaves it is struggling or out of food. new leaves must be at least the same size or larger if planted properly.

pondmegastore ahhh the leaves now are much smaller, and seems torn at the side.. unable to grow to its usual size... not sure why... XD I'm afraid of over feeding it and causing the roots to die out

Guessing by now you either fed the plant or it starved to death. These are very hungry plants, if you dont feed them they wont do much.

The fish, known as Gambusia or mosquitofish, are too small to dig anything up nor do they want to dig it up because their diet consists of small bugs, mostly mosquitoes. The fertilizer will not cause the algae to bloom because, during repotting, the fertilizer is in between two layers of dirt so only the water lilies can reach it.

There are perennial (winter hardy) waterlilies and also tropical waterlilies. The one shown here with a rhizome for a root system is hardy. Tropicals make tubers when stressed to reproduce. Quite different from one another and easy to tell apart.

@@pondmegastore thank you so much

Yes it needs to be planted properly (in soil). No it does not need special water.

The part all the leaves are coming out of is the growing end ... the cut end is no longer growing so it goes against the pot and down into the mud. The living end is the 'growing tip' or crown, both sides do not grow.

yes you are correct, the growing tips / crowns are easy to identify and cut or break off.

if there is organic material breaking down yes, also a solid container will smell much more than a fabric bag or somewhere air can help grow more bacteria.

Yes all hardy's have rhizomes. Some split slower than others but most you can 'purchase' are easy and multiply 1-3 rhizomes per year. Wanvisa multiplies like a weed though. Did you plant yours in soil where it can stretch it's legs - more room for hardies the easier this is?

pondmegastore I did, however it came in a smaller pot so I'll definitely be putting it in a larger one this Spring.

+JBtheExplorer Just curious how the lily did in the larger pot! More people will become interested in the waterlilies I think if big box stores would just stop having people plant them incorrectly.

loam soil (50% topsoil - 50% clay) if it holds together barely damp in your hand it is good.

We have never been located in San Angelo. We have only celebrated the lilies and park already there

The park itself, which is what is shown in the video, is in San Angelo Texas

They can go 15 cm deep but need to be placed below the level of winter ice if you are in a cold area in winter.

+Koakila yes we do!

I am sorry Frank. You are thinking of Lotus. These are waterlilies. Totally different.