#iris louisiana

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Now it's raining but yesterday and this morning was sunny and so two flowers of the waterlilies blossomed!!

Yesterday: pink just open, white only poking out of the water

Today: pink fully open and white! not only completely out of the water but!! already opening!!! Would you look at that!

Next: the pondsy in the sun and another little flower growinggg alreadyyy

Bonus pics: soft hornwort with little waterlily leaves + hornwort and a snailsie + how big the leaves are becoming (I don't think they ever reached this size before)

All things going well, even if the spring repotting hasn't happened yet (next week, surely, as I've been telling myself for, uhm, A While. Life's been a bitch!!)

Also, it's basically invisible but I managed to capture one of the various lizards going around the pondsy! It's... there, on the rock in the middle, for only four seconds. Hey, better than nothing!

Seeing the plants growing and seeing all the flowers blossoming it's truly incredible and magical, makes me so emotional every time. And now a lot of birds go there too to drink even in winter time <3 not only the lizards and the bugs in the summer <3 I'm so glad I did this project, even if it's beyond my current physical capabilities 🥹

Happy may first to everyone! Until next time :) 🦎

Score: pink water lily 1, white waterlily 0

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Okay so day ?(I forgor) of the spring clean up or whatever it was that I started more than a month ago and got around to finish only today!

The white waterlily flower is in its last day, the second pink waterlily flower blossomed, the bud of the third one is halfway out of the water, and Guenda checked out that everything was in order before I began.

The bigger pot I ordered for the water plantain is actually too big, so it stays in the broken one until I buy another one of the same size. Or I change the iris one with an oblong one, since they tend to grow at the border, and use that one for the water plantain. Or both. I'll see.

I rotated the position of the pots so the water lilies will receive more daylight (I think), planted the water mare's tail and the canadian waterweed, let's see how it goes this time. Now it looks worse for wear but they'll stabilise in a few days. Also the (earth) snails are back trying to feed on the iris and the water plantain so I'll have to deal with them asap.

Bonus pic of a bug I saved from drowning!

Score: pink waterlily 2, white waterlily 2.