Remember, I was trying to produce a water hyacinth flower for you? Well, here it is.......

Enjoy! :D






Cheers,
Johnnyboy

Wow! That's great. It looks like it's jammed up on the side of the waterfall? If so, then it probably thought (as if plants think), "I'd better flower since I can't reproduce by division which is my preferred method since I have no room to spread."

How did you get the water hyacinth and water lettuce to stay there? It looks like the flow of the water would push them over the falls.

That's interesting, Robyn, your idea why it flowered. I tend to believe your theory.

I have them packed in my bio falls so tight they're pushing themselves over the sides, and still no flower. Yet this one, along with a bit of lettuce, got dislodged from the biofalls, didn't stick in the upper splash pond, went on their way down the second fall into the stream but instead lodged themselves on the side. It wasn't anything I did. I tend to just let them stay where ever they get stuck in my stream. Adds another dimension of nature. Of course as they reproduce I have to thin them out to keep them from jambing the stream. Both the hyacinth and lettuce actually grow well in the fast moving water, as you can see.

The flower didn't last very long though. The next day was gone. I don't know how long it was there before I noticed it; I can't imagine too long. I almost waited another day to take pictures, glad I didn't.

John

Each flower shoot has about 6 individual flowers. Any individual flower is only open for two days. Usually two open, then the next day another two, and so on so the total flower time per spike is only 2 or 3 days. You can see the two spent flowers from the day before in your photo just drooping there on the right.

Very interesting. Thanks Robyn.