Cold Hardy Water Lilies

Hardy water lilies are perennials and will come back year after year if the roots are protected from freezing.

Cold hardy water lilies.

We have a large selection of aquatic plants for your water garden. Hardy water lilies albatros hardy waterlily pond plant 25 99. Hardy plants will come back every year and are preferred over tropical plants due to this reason. Hardy water lilies are available in white red pink yellow changeable peach orange and now in purple.

With thick rhizomes that are able to subsist in substrate throughout winter and resprout new lilies the following year hardy water lilies are floating plants that make an excellent choice for cold weather ponds. Most varieties have green leaves but some have a nice mottled color as well. Hardy water lilies actually enjoy a cold dormant period. Floating pond plants submerged oxygenating pond plants hardy water lilies tropical water lilies bog marginal pond plants water iris and pond lotus are shipped from our greenhouses to you.

Water lilies come in two types. Hardy water lilies grow in zones 4 to 11 and the flowers come in a variety of colors and shapes. Hardy water lilies will go dormant for the winter. When this happens move the water lily pot and all to the deepest part of your pond where the water doesn t freeze solid.

They overwinter well and the waterlily will return in the spring once again rewarding you with a lovely pond plant. This particular genus nymphaea of water lilies is well adapted to cooler cold climates typically zone 3 and warmer. Although i know a lot of people that grow tropical water lilies they are not hardy in colder areas and have to be purchased every year. Welcome to pond plants online llc.

Some even change their color as they age. The foliage will die back or become sparse. Perennial winter hardy water lily cultivars can survive winter in almost any location properly planted many weeks before the first frost and below where ice will form in the pond. Hardy water lilies will bloom continuously may thru september.

In general tropical pond plants are larger and more colorful than hardy pond plants. Hardy pond plants are classified as water plants that will survive the winter up to zone 4. Showing 1 12 of 74 results quick view. Most hardy water lilies are perennials in zones 3 10.

Hardy water lilies are exotic fragrant dayblooming plants available in a wide variety of shapes sizes and. Considered the crown jewel of any northern water garden hardy water lilies are sturdy souls able to survive the cold winter climate yet they provide a much sought after explosion of colour and blooms during the dog days of summer. Hardy lilies if they ever would perish in winter are more likely to do so from stress of being overgrown and without any sunlight for a lengthy period where snow.