Cooking With Lotus
Coming this June we will ask Warner about his travels to Asia and the culinary experiences with lotus. The tubers which resemble the seed heads with the hollow areas and flower-like pattern are starchy and used throughout Asia in a little more enjoyable starch similar to a potato but with even more variety and of [...]
Excitement in Bloom
Flower Barn co-owner spends a lifetime cultivating beauty Lori Shontz The Penn Stater magazine — At first, all George Griffith wanted was a pond. Just a little one, somewhere in a corner of his family’s land in western Pennsylvania. After getting permission to dig one, he saved his money to buy a couple of goldfish to live there. After [...]
Tropical Lilies Survive One of the Coldest Winters in History!
[See Update March 31 Below] Matt Garver in Indiana e-mailed me in January that he was going to be overwintering his tropical lilies outside in a half whiskey barrel like container with a built in heater to keep from freezing. The device is known as a thermoplanter. A couple weeks ago he checked to see how the plants [...]
Legislation to destroy Pond Owners, Builders, and Businesses
At last nights Saturday meeting IWGS executive director brought back chilling news fromhis NAPP (National Association of Pond Professionals) meeting in Georgia. The anti-business movement legislation is afoot across the US. In Texas, effective the first of 2011 a “white list” goes into action. At that time it will be illegal to own, sell, or [...]
Winter care of Tropical Waterlilies 2009-2010
In any given year you would consider water gardeners overwintering tropical waterlilies likley in Northern states. With such short growing seasons in the north its actually people in hardiness zones 6 and south that have more luck overwintering. This winter was long and hard all the way to the Gulf Coast. Darren, a good water garden friend in Austin [...]
Behind the Waterlily Journal….. (25 Years)
Most of the following information was gathered and submitted to Water-Garden-Blog by Paula Biles and Larry Nau. Paula and Larry are the first and third Executive Directors of the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society. *UPDATE 2/23/2010 “The Water Lily Journal” in block letters on the left is from the 1st editions of the Journal, [...]
The Journal Lives
Tim Davis has continued some great work on the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society website this week. This is a great time to become a member as more information and services are available than anytime before as far as the web goes. Larry Nau (Executive Director of the IWGS) and Tim Davis (Website [...]
Botanica Magnifica
From the Abbeville Press, The original edition of Botanica Magnifica, consisting of five lavishly hand-bound volumes, was limited to just ten copies, the first of which was recently donated to the Smithsonian Institution. The extra-large “double-elephant” format of that edition was chosen in homage to the famous double-elephant folio of The Birds of America, and [...]
Old news is new again?
Tim Davis, who runs the International Waterlily Collection website and the IWGS.org site has added some great new additions for 2010 for the IWGS site. A step by step revamp of the International Waterlily and Water Garden Society is underway. Executive Director Larry Nau and fellow IWGS members are looking into getting permission from [...]
Experts Grant Mitchell & Warner Orozco-Obando
. . 2010 Eastern China Lotus Exploration & Water Garden Tour With Grant Mitchell and Warner Orozco-Obando July 15-30 and Aug 3-17th 2010 Please contact if interested! Day 1 : Arrive Guanzhou Bai Yun Airport transport to hotel Day 2 : Day excursion to Lotus Mountain gardens. This garden is about 100 acres and includes [...]
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