Victoria Amazonica
 

Giant water lillies from the amazon.

This was teh one I was growing in our pond last year unfortunately it died.

I have to start from seed again

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Well that didn't work!!

How do you insert a picture without needing to type in a URL????

Let's just try this:

http://freakofnaturezzz.blogspot.com...alone-not.html

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Check out this thread here on how to post pictures.

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Thanks David.

Lets give this a try

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SUCCESS!!!!!

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My goodness! That is huge. I bet a human can lie on it like a boat?

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hear the max weight is 40kg....

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gbarce, how big is yours garden????!!!! that Giant water lillies diameter is almost my garden length!!!! cannot wait to see you post more about yours garden.

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Wow!!! Love the plant!!!

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Here's a link to a post about the garden from my blog:

http://freakofnaturezzz.blogspot.com...en-update.html

Its a work in progress and I eventually want to have a canopy mosty of different kinds of Palms .

Once we have the canopy established then the fun begins when I can start planting in the understory stuff including the carnivores-- hehe

Notice though that a lot of the plants are still small

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Then i can stand on one...I'm 37kg*biggrin2*

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then, I can stand on 2 leaf... wakaka...*biggrin2*

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I've never tested the limit but it can carry a lot as long as you distribute the weight.

There is a network of veins on the underside of the leaf and that is relatively sturdy but the leaf itself is kind of paper thin and easily tears.

I put newspapers on top before placing the dog so the leaf doesn't get punctured. A few moments after the shot was taken the dog walked around and his foot went through the leaf.

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Wow.. I'm so jealous that you can grow victoria amazonica.. if I have a house big enough in the future, its definitely going to be in the garden.. great job growing and blooming it.. :)

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It doen't need to have too much space actually. the first pond I grew this in was only 10 feet by 10 feet and was only 2 feet deep.

You can control the size of the leaves by limiting the soil and fertilizer.

Leaves were only 3 feet across then.

If they get crowded in you small pond because of too many leaves just cut off the older ones

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If I can just find one. Even then, I do not have a pond(unless I dig up my carpark, then it can be really big)

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Then how big are the seeds? :D Like footballs?

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if it happens to have my chance to visit the philippines, do you accept visitors? especially around your garden and your house.*biggrin2*