waterlily!!! very cool Robert!
I'm so jealous...

I can't wait til I can finally order mine! Please post pics of it in bloom!

Stephanie

My water lily is finally blooming above the water after having raised it (guess either I had it too deep or it just wasn't acclimating fast enough since it kept blooming beneath the water...ugh)!

Yesterday it had a light scent but today when I didn't go home at lunch my partner reported it has a lovely scent. Doh! He snapped this pic for me so I thought I'd share. :)

-Robert

D'oh. XD
Each flower lasts about 3 days so hopefully you can smell it tomorrow. :)

I got two blooms today! But of course on the day I come home it's overcast and the scent was just starting to develop. Laugh.
Guess I'll need to wait until a sunny weekend to enjoy it.

musaboru,

Have I mentioned how delighted I am to see you back on this forum? :)

I thought about some fish to eat the mosquitoes however I'd have to buy some chloramine remover and I've already bought the mosquito killer stuff but thank you for the tip!

-Robert

Robert,
Congrats on your water lilly bloom! It's beautiful!
I didn't even know some of them are fragrant.
I love it when you post your pics! My little lilies
aren't blooming to my disappointment, but they are still
putting leaves up.
Thank you for posting these pics and keep us posted.
I love waterlillies.

You're welcome! Anytime!
I learned my fragrant walter lily info from musaboru. :)

-Robert

So robert.. does the scent get better? :D

It's not the weekend yet, Kem! Laugh.

When I went home the other day on my lunch break it had just opened. It takes time to develop its scent.
Hoping to get some good sniffing in tomorrow and Sunday! I'll let ya know my thoughts. :)

-Robert

Wow they are gorgeous! I can't wait to hear about the scent.

Got to sniff one bloom today.
I'm going with a light to medium scent.
The scent doesn't waft but if you stick your nose in it you definitely can detect a rose like scent. :)

My partner loves the shape of the blooms. He says it looks like the capitals (the top of columns) in Egypt.
He loves them and so do I!

-Robert

Wow she's gorgeous! I like her too! Lol

I love this lily!
Expect the fragrance to get stronger with time. Mine started out as a fragrance you had to stick your nose into the flower to smell. Now you can smell it with in three feet of the pond.

Thanks so much for sharing your experience with this water lily, Ordphien!
Wish I had a pond for it...though the dog would be swimming in it mucking up the water lilies. :)

-Robert