Container for Dwarf Waterlily

What a lovely idea. It will be nice to see a photo when the water Lily is in bloom.

Thank you Lisam, welcome to GOY, it's great for getting ideas. I saw the pebble pond edging idea on Dansponds pics first.

You've worked hard, Siris, and it all looks very neat and happy.

Thank you Terra. (Ps I have an old photo especially for you)

Oh, wow... just found the lovely Smooth Haired Fox Terrier photo... thank you... what happy childhood memories for you of a special doggy friend !

This is a great idea! I've been thinking of having a barrel or container for a waterlily on the front garden to have some water there too :)

I'm always surprised at the hardiness of the waterlilies. I have plans to raid an isolated pond/swamp/swale not far from here to appropriate some roots (and maybe a plant or two) of the white jasmine scented waterlilies that grow there unremarked and generally ignored. I'm encouraged by the fact that in desperation, after the accumulation of so much silt in the pond I was trying to dig, I finally used my old pondliner and made a place for my nymphaea out of an old packing crate. It is sunk into the ground about 3ft..and is about 1000 cc. (that's a guess) trouble with it is, it's ugly. I have lots of rock to use and when time permits I hope to make a wishing well like arrangement for it. would that work for your little lily? is it tropical or temperate?
First two seasons I lifted the pot and overwintered it in the basement... Since then it has survived on it's own, with only snowmelt and rainwater to keep it going (even thro a couple of drought filled summers.)
Do you have frogs? last summer the bullfrogs took over the pond and some of them may have overwintered around the nymphaea roots. If they didn't survive the freeze/thaw their bodies added fertilizer. I'm constantly finding evidence of natural symbiosis. nature actually works. without us. ;-)

Hopefully Siris you'll be able to work your garden magic with it in its new position. Have you tried threatening it? I threatened a non flowering campanula persicifolia with the compost bin after several years non flowering and it has bloomed its heart out ever since...
Looking forward to seeing the little fuchsia doing its stuff.
You'll enjoy watching the birds there anyway.

Dan, being a pond fanatic, have you a dwarf Waterlily and if yes has it flowered for you?
Lori yes I have frogs in the proper ponds, but in the UK a disease has devastated the common frog population, they are only just recovering. I have lots of Newts too. The water lilies are temperate, stay in the pond all year. Occasionally there is a thin layer of ice forms, but I keep a breathing hole open with an aquarium air pump. I think rather than leaving the dwarf WL in the tub overwinter, I will put on a pond shelf.
Stera, I threatened my Kiwi with a Fig if it didn't fruit. Got the Fig, ate 4 fruits, Kiwi still not obliging.

I've had one and had the same issue as you had :) but wanting to get a wooden barrel for one :)

Siris if you got the fig and still have the kiwi it obviously didn't take the threat seriously!

If you can't get your Dwarf water lily to flower, Dan, no one can.
Stera, the Kiwi put on a wonderful display of flowers, the bees loved it, so I've relented. Also before I put the Fig outside it had 5 fruits but the hot weather in April caused it to drop them.