For my "subtropical paradise," as my expensive tree-cutters call my acre-garden in Miami, I'm too poor to create a tropical koi pool like my neighbor did, so I "converted" the ruin of my huge old swimming pool to a "nymphaeum" of sorts, with its tropical vine-covered, mildew-stained blue walls and its four-foot deep ground-water pool, in whose mucky bottom I planted two purloined water hyacinths that now cover the entire surface and somedays, for days on end, they sport hundreds of blooms like this one all at once! To read more amusing adventures with my hyacinthine nymphaeum, see my Journal account: HERE