Allison and The Victoria Longwood, one year later
Last year we brought you pictures of baby Allison laying on a victoria lilypad at the San Angelo International Waterlily Collection. This year as we returned we not only took some photos of now one year old baby Allison but shot a minute of footage with her sitting on the lilypad. Her mom, Melody, works [...]
Facebook Fix
We did fix the facebook link on the sidebar. Please Join over 6000 people on our facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/PondMegastore There are constant water garden photo contests in which you can win free pond plants or waterlilies of your choosing. The new PondMegastore.com is also still being updated with new help and resource pages. New features [...]
Wanvisa price, IWGS verge of a comeback or extinction?
UPDTE 5/16/11: Tamara Kilbane, grower of the International Waterlily Competition plants in Raleigh, NC, has offered her observations and tips for enhanced blooming of Nymphaea ‘Wanvisa’. “As far as my observations of ‘Wanvisa’ – it is a very fast growing plant and a good bloomer. We saw an average of 2-4 blooms open each day [...]
Our Nephew…
Shortly after our last post came a personal tragedy for our family. Our two year old, one and only nephew died on March 21st of a tragic accident. This is the reason for our delay in spring interests and writing. We thank all those that know us for your thoughts and prayers. Our friends and [...]
A Lotus worth $5.5 Billion
Paula Biles has updated us with some more cultural influences from the Lotus and both remarkable by the way. First unlike anything seen today in the United States, Singapore has finished a world arts center & museum designed in the shape of a giant lotus flower. Sitting along the water front just as a true lotus would [...]
Earth, Ocean, and Solar Cycles
In the UK just two years ago news declared “Winter is Dead”, and cited that children will now grow up not knowing what snow is except in rare circumstances. They even interviewed Dr Nigel Taylor, curator of Kew Gardens. Kew has a great amount of waterlily data and is referenced often by WGI. This December [...]
Rolf Nelson invites all to discuss the Texas White List at the IWGS September Symposium.
The Texas White List has passed legislation. Jan 1, 2011 most all aquatic plants will be banned in Texas unless species or varieties can now be added to the new “White List”. Unless marked on approved white list waterlilies and other aquatics will be banned from even owning within state lines. I stopped by Nelson’s [...]
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 [...]
Easter 2010, Dubai Fountain
I posted something for Easter last year, and my favorite sister-in-law shared something fascinating with me recently that I thought I would share with any blog visitors. This fountain in Dubai at the base of the worlds largest building plays the lords prayer (in rotation with other music). Baba Yetu, is actually “Our Lord’s Prayer” [...]
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 [...]
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