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Water Hyacinth Blooming in Late Summer

By Published On: September 7th, 20250.5 min readCategories: Photos
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Water hyacinth in bloom
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Water Hyacinths blooming in the goldfish pond

In summer the water hyacinths (Pontederia crassipes) are always trying to crowd out the lilypads and yerba mansa and completely take over the goldfish pond.

I find myself hauling them out a 30 gallon trash barrel at a time at least once a month.

I'm not a fan of that because it's kind of a pain in the butt, but the flowers sure are pretty.

A mass of water hyacinths in a pond

A mass of water hyacinths in the pond

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I’m just a guy with nearly an acre of dirt, a nice little mid-century ranch house and a near-perfect climate. But in my mind I’m a landscaper survivalist craftsman chef naturalist with a barbeque the size of a VW and my own cable TV show. I like to write about the stuff I build, grow and see here at Sage's Acre.
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