The struggling water lillies.
Waiting for his princess (or prince I suppose).
Also looking for that first kiss.
Last year Catherine and I painstakingly planted 8 (very expensive) mail order water lilies at one end of the pond. They did great! They had big leaves and several were starting to flower when something, we suspect Tommy the turtle, ate every last shred of them. Still, three survived and came up this year, and I tried to protect them with a bit of fencing. They seemed to be doing O.K. although there were no flowers. Then we had some hail and really heavy rain. Now most of the leaves have been torn off and the whole project looks pretty forlorn. On the plus side, successful or not, the frogs love the little lily pad corner of the pond. We're wondering what we should do next year about these things. Updates to follow.
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