Saturday morning I was surprised and amazed to spot a water lily flower popping up in the pond…

the reason I am surprised is that this water lily was in the pond all winter…

when I closed up the pond in the fall, just before I put a tarp over it, I was only able to bring out two lilies… this one was so stuck in the bottom I couldn’t remove it…

when I uncovered everything this spring, before I put water in, it had already started to sprout a bit, but was purpley-red…

it stayed that colour for weeks and only recently turned green… some of the leaves still have the purple colour around the outside edges…

and there is a second bud now… two buds at once has never happened before;-)…

what a shock…

so this fall I am going to leave all of them in the pond and see what happens, lol…