introducing ‘Tanzanite’
New from Florida Aquatics, winner of best new waterlily 2009. Nymphaea ‘Tanzanite’ was the Best New Waterlily of 2009 as awarded by the International Waterlily and Water Garden Association in their annual new waterlily competition. Deep violet purple flowers with over 50 petals are a highlight of this plant. Darker in color than any other [...]
Cleaning up Victoria Waterlilies with Ken Landon
Live update, the ponds have been cleaned. Let Lilyfest begin!
‘Kishin’ from Hawaii & Garet Uemura
“Kishin” stood out as soon as I got to the International Waterlily collection in San Angelo. Today or tomorrow I hope to get into the pools and film up close similar to the “bee’s eye view’ I got in Sarah P Duke Gardens. Now that judging in the 2010 waterlily competition has ended I will [...]
St. Louis Marmorata (1917)
More live from Lilyfest 2010. From IWC San Angelo, TX. George Pring’s Unreleased N. St. Louis Marmorata Come see N. St. Louis Marmorata. This is a waterlily that was unreleased to the trade by Mr. Pring. It was one of the crosses created in attempt to create a yellow hybrid lily. It is of major [...]
“Catherine Marie”
Around 1990 Ken Landon introduced some amazing Night Bloomers. My favorie is Jennifer Rebecca but Catherine Marie is a top notch nightbloomer. It has rich pink petals and pale yellow stamen with olive green pads. It is a cross between N. Woods White Knight x N. Red Flare just as N. Jennifer Rebecca is. Here [...]
Ultra Violet: The Summer Videos
The 2008 Best New Waterlily is a remarkable plant. Ultra Violet has grown so quickly and within weeks of fertilizing has big pads and up to 8 buds each day on the surface here in Ohio. I am using Ken Landon fertilizer 7802. The pads and flowers as you will see are just incredible. The [...]
Bull’s Eye : A Direct Hit for Red Tropical Waterlilies
Nymphaea Bull’s Eye: Developed by Florida Aquatics this new waterlily is the most correct Red a tropical day bloomer has achieved until this point. Often hot pink or rosey this adult plant is Red and when very mature nearly maroon. From Florida Aquatic: The flower color is the real eye-catcher on this lily. The [...]
FOXFIRE: The amazing tropical waterlily. Can bloom 3 days and up to 36hrs without closing.
The amazing Foxfire, loved by most who have seen her was developed by Craig Presnell, one of the parents being Ampla, a large species waterlily. Grown very large in the south the adult plants can get 15 feet across easily but only after many months of growing, lots of sunlight, and about a 20 gallon [...]
Blooming Tropical Waterlilies in Indiana, during APRIL?
Update to Matt Garver’s overwintering of tropicals in Indiana, his plant (Panama Pacific) not only overwintered as we shared with you a few months ago in the Thermoplanter but it began blooming in April. He sent me these photos on April 24th but I have not had much time to update the blog. It is [...]
TUBER Video, Tim Davis Explains -Tropicals, Hardies, Dividing, and a lot more
Tim Davis recently tested a new video camera we hope we will be sharing all sorts of information with you over the coming years. Since there are few water lilies to look at in April in Ohio we sent the camera to Tim in Houston Texas where he got some clips of the 2010 Nelson’s [...]
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