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Walmart Water Lillies Really Bloom...Look!!!

18 years ago

Hey wassup guys....Just wanted to let you guys know that the $5 dollar Walmart Hardy Lillies really do Bloom.....I woke up this morning to this flower just opening up.....I bought 4 hardy lilies from Walmart around 1.5 -2 months ago and this one was the first to Bloom....I see 3 more flower buds approaching the surface so it looks like this one will be a good Bloomer.....The other 3 lilles are putting up lots of pads too so I'm pretty sure they will Bloom soon as well.....This one was the first I bought so it looks like it got a head start on the rest.....Now does anybody know which lilly this Bloom is from....I wrote the names down but i didnt write down the colors......CAn anybody tell me which one this is....These are the 4 that I bought:

Sioux

Colorado

Attraction

Sulphurea

ALso I didnt use any fertilizers or Soil...I just planted in a 1 gallon pot full of River Rocks......

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Comments (18)

  • 18 years ago

    Sioux would be the most likely though it could be one you didn't list. Wal*Mart lilies are notorious for being mislabeled.

    It isn't Attraction, Sulphurea or Colorado for sure.

  • 18 years ago

    My guess is Sioux also.
    Attraction is white and red, I think
    Colorado is sort of peach??
    Sulphurea is yellow.
    Nice pics. I'm glad they're doing well.

  • 18 years ago

    Lovely!
    Deb

  • 18 years ago

    Sioux is a changeable, opening pale yellow and turning red/orange. Colorado is salmon. Attraction is red. And
    Sulphurea is yellow. Your lily doesn't look like it's any of these. Looks like a Fabiola but it's hard to tell.

    Jan

  • 18 years ago

    Do the flecked pads belong to the lily in the photo?

    Changeables and yellows have flecked/variegated pads. Pinks and reds, don't.

    Graziella, Chrysantha and Aurora are all changeables but their pads are much more heavily marked that those.

    Little Sue has flecked pads. If it is Little Sue instead of Sioux, then you got a better lily. However, Sioux has flecked pads too, especially when they are young.

  • 18 years ago

    Hey Thanks Guys....All the Pads you see in the pics are from the same Blooming Lilly....I just talked to my Wife and She said she did save the labels and put them somewhere...When She gets Home She can dig them up and than I can See What the Colors of The Blooms of those 4 should look like......Thanks Again...~Raskal

  • 18 years ago

    Looks like Sioux, mine changes daily from pale pink to red orange. Guess I've never seen it yellow, well maybe the petal tips. And it does get some flecked leaves though most of the bigger pads are solid green. Mine is 3 years old and one of my most prolific bloomers with very little fertilizer! I like the small size in my 300 ga pond.

    Nice blooms!

  • 18 years ago

    Looks like my Sioux also, mine has never really been yellow either. Like sheepco, it is probably the most prolific bloomer. I just received mine earlier this season from a trade/sase & it has been blooming all summer, often 2 or 3 blooms at a time. The hard thing about water lilies for me is that they are at their best late morning it seems, & I am at work :(

  • 18 years ago

    It is either Sioux or mislabeled.

    It isn't Attraction, Colorado or Sulphurea.

  • 18 years ago

    I don't think it is Souix. Its too pink. The one I had also bloomed a pale yellow with a peachy pink tone in the middle, turning dark and bronzy by the last day of the bloom.
    Its not Fabiola (Pink Beauty) either. Its not the right color of pink.

  • 18 years ago

    Hey Thanks guys for all of your input....I took some more pics of the Lilly Bloom today and I think the Flower is gettin a little darker.....This is its 3rd day of blooming so I dont know how much longer the flower will last...there is 3 or 4 more coming up to the surface and I'm wondering if they will b the same color....Here is also a Pic of a new Pad that just poppped up....DO you guys think this is a Siuox or mislabled lilly???....Thanks again...~Raskal

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    P.s. What is the longest a lilly flower will last????..I think I read 3-4 days, but I'm not sure...Thanks again guys..~Raskal

  • 18 years ago

    3-4 days is correct.

    I've never grown Sioux but it looks like it to me but it may be an unnamed cultivar too. It is a coin toss with Wal*Mart waterlilies but as long as it performs and you like it, the name really doesn't matter.

    It isn't Charlie's Choice, Berit Strawn, Aurora, Graziella or Chrysantha. All Changeables with much different pads.

    It isn't a pink, their pads are solid colored.

  • 18 years ago

    I looked up some Colorado images and it looks something like that. ???

  • 18 years ago

    Not Colorado. Colorado isn't a changeable, has many more petals, doesn't have flecks on the pads and is peach colored with the tips of the petals being pale yellow.

  • 18 years ago

    We have these at our local WM and I'm bouncing around about buying them because I don't know how invasive they are.

    Bought several Sultan water lilies from a place in Colorado a couple of years ago and they are hardy but don't "take over" the pond like some do.

    How fast are these growing for you and are they taking over?

    Liz :)

  • 18 years ago

    Water lilies from Wal Mart and Lowes are not invasive at all. My daughter has 3 in her small preformed pond and last year she had to occasionally trim the pads back because there was so many pads. But this year I'm going to help her re-pot them and she shouldn't have any problem for a year or two. When they get too crowded in the pots, the tend to put out too many pads. But the frogs aren't too happy with her when she trims them back. They like to be able to hid in them. Glenda

  • 18 years ago

    The 'Sioux' has lilypads more consistent with 'Seignoureti'

  • 18 years ago

    yes they do bloom, but i was kinda bummed that they were dwarf size. but i did get one to bloom quite a bit.

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