for ray(BB)

There water hyachinths and die at end of summer, i tried over wintering them in a bucket of water in greenhouse, but still died on me., they also mutiply quite quick.

thanx carol, wonder why they cant be kept, are the flowers nice on them

Sorry late to this Sandra..yes as Clarice says its a water hyacinth and not hardy.We had a couple which died and never flowered.If you google them you get lots of info !Maybe we need better summers.....

thanx ray, it just looked interesting so i got it, will take a look thanx ;o)

I tried one on our pond a couple of years ago. It looked great whille it was flowering but, as with everyone else, it did not survive the winter.

thanx jb, well cheap enough to buy each year, looking forward to flowers ;o))