🌿 Planting & Care Guide for Water Garden Plants

Create a thriving, beautiful pond environment by following these easy planting and care steps. For best results, we recommend planting your water lilies in containers rather than directly in the pond bed. This allows for easier maintenance, relocation, and seasonal care.

All water lilies thrive with 8–10 hours of direct sunlight daily and benefit from regular fertilization throughout the growing season.

🌸 Tropical Water Lilies (Day & Night Blooming)

Tropical water lilies are vibrant and rewarding bloomers that thrive in warm water.

• Container Size: Use a pot 12 inches or larger (3–5 gallons recommended).

• Soil: Fill halfway with rich garden soil. Add 2–4 fertilizer tablets, then top off with more soil—leaving about 2 inches of space from the rim.

• Planting: Place the rhizome upright, gently covering the roots while keeping the growing tip above the soil.

• Top Layer: Add 1–2 inches of pea gravel or sand to prevent soil from floating. Keep gravel away from the crown.

• Water Depth: Submerge the pot to about 12 inches.

• Temperature: Wait until the water reaches 70°F (21°C) before planting to prevent dormancy.

• Blooming Season: Late spring through early fall.

🪷 Tip: A larger pot will encourage stronger growth and more abundant blooms.

❄️ Hardy Water Lilies

Hardy lilies grow horizontally and return each year with proper care.

• Container Size: Use a wide, shallow container to accommodate horizontal rhizome growth.

• Planting: Position the rhizome at a 45° angle, near the edge of the pot, with the crown exposed.

• Soil & Fertilizer: Use nutrient-rich soil and 2–4 fertilizer tablets. Cover the top with 1–2 inches of pea gravel or sand.

• Water Depth: Begin with 6 inches of water above the soil and gradually lower to 12–18 inches as the plant matures.

• Planting Season: Early spring.

• Blooming Season: June through September.

• Dormancy: Becomes dormant in winter and regrows in spring.

🌞 Quick Care Tips:

• Use heavy garden soil, not potting mix.

• Avoid burying the crown of lilies.

• Fertilize every 3–4 weeks during active growth.

• Regularly remove yellowing leaves and spent blooms.

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2. Please do not take picture of damaged plants, or animals in your aquarium. Once they have been introduced to your aquarium's ecosystem. It is no longer covered by our guarantee.

Please be aware that our Live Arrival Guarantee is subject to certain conditions. Specifically, the guarantee will not be applicable in cases where the package is marked as 'invalid address', 'undeliverable' or is 'returned to sender.' This includes situations such as a vacant delivery address, a missing apartment number, or any other issues that prevent the postal service from delivering your package.

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Please keep in mind that Live Arrival Guarantee only guarantees that live stocks will be alive upon arrival. We cannot guarantee that you will continue to have success with them. Many factors, including the aquarium environment, water quality, nutrient, temperature, lighting, filter, and CO2 system, can contribute to the failure to grow live plants and live animals.

WHAT WE CAN'T GUARANTEE

Even though our plants are very clean, but we can't guarantee they will be 100% pest-free because we cannot be responsible for your aquarium. Please use it at your own risk. We recommended all customers rinse the plants with clean water and quarantine them before use.

However, plants in tissue culture will be 100% free from pests, algae and never have been contacting with any aquarium.

1. Due to the nature of the product. We don't guarantee our plants will be pests free. ( snails, algae, hitchhikers )
2. We don't guarantee our plants will be free of pesticides. We use homemade, organic pesticides in our greenhouse to control pests. We do not use pesticides that contain copper. Copper is toxic to invertebrates such as aquatic snails, crabs, shrimps, etc
3. We don't guarantee your aquarium success or are responsible for your aquarium inhabitant including but not limited to fish, shrimp, snail, turtle, etc. So please quarantine all plants when use!
4. Unless specific, we don't guarantee aquatic plants will be grow emerged or submerge.

Please review your state's regulations on restricted plants, as we are committed to not shipping plants that are restricted in your area. Do not release any plants into the wild or waterways, as this can harm local ecosystems by introducing invasive species.

Your cooperation in protecting the environment is appreciated. For continuously updated information, refer to the USDA State Noxious Weed list here.

Thank you for your responsible commitment to environmental preservation.