AboutBrigitte Expertise Pond and Water Gardening (aquatic plant selection and care, Koi and pond fish selection and care, pond and water garden building and maintenance, etc.) of all sorts.
Experience
Experience in the area: Own a Water Garden Supply Retail Store and Pond Supply Mail Order Company www.pondmarket.com
Organizations I belong to: St. Louis Water Gardening Society
Publications:
Editor of Splash! The Garden Pond & Water Garden Newsletter!
St. Louis Gardener Magazine, various internet gardening newsletters, and others
Question I bought a beautiful healthy water lily from the garden store. It was full of leaves and had a flower budding. It is now totally ravaged with no leaves or flowers only some damaged stems dangling. Will my water lily come back next year when I get rid of the turtle or will I need to spend another $40 on new one.
Answer Hello!
As long as the turtle is in the pond I would not bother to buy another Water Lily, because she will eat it again.
Whether or not the current Lily comes back depends on the degree of damage to the growing tip (the tip of the tuber). If the growing tip was damaged it will probably not return.
