A friend of mine introduced me with water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) several years ago and ever since then I had it maybe two times. Since we have cold winters hyacinth cannot survive outside but it also rarely survives indoors. Lack of sunlight is the biggest problem and artificial lights are too expensive to use. It is interesting that sometimes it survives through entire winter and when spring comes it starts to die. Don`t understand why but it is very disappointing to see that.
To me water hyacinth is very interesting looking plant and great addition to ponds and lakes. My biggest reason for wanting this plant is that it looks very unusual and I would like to see it flower :). I hope that this post will end with water hyacinth flowering and producing seed. Since it is hard to overwinter plants seed would be great thing to have.
