Lilies

Question
We bought a couple of water lilies at Lowe's this year. But their pads are only 2-3 inches in diameter. Is something wrong? It was not sold as a dwarf lily. What is going on?

Answer
Do you know what variety it is?  Some lily varieties have smaller pads.  Also, a lily can be stunted.  For example, when I pot my hardy lilies in 5 gallon pots in my 1800 gallon pond, they put out pads a little larger than those in 1 gallon pots in my 153 gallon pond.  How big is the pot you have the lilies in?  How did you pot them?  Earlier leaves on a lily (or ones following dormancy or damage) are smaller.  There's also the possibility that the lily is not the variety that the package said it was.  It might be a dwarf.  Good luck!

Robyn
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