Back to pink! My water lilies are finally back to their former size. We moved in October, and afterward, the water lilies dropped their leaves due to the new water. Now they’ve fully recovered and are glowing with vibrant pink colors once again!
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The ladies went for an evening stroll around the neighbourhood and came back a complete water lily plant. Totally unfamiliar, I was surprised that this flower opened in the evening and closed in sunlight when the heat of the day came up.
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Well I feel a little silly, until yesterday I thought these were both the same thing just being called by different common names. This explains my confusion though.
At least they seem to be easy to tell apart from the flower.
Public domain. Not my photos, but they are also public domain which is why I’m using them. Yay other people who make their photos public domain.
[image descriptions start. Two photos of different water plant flowers against a black background, labeled with color-coded text. The top is “Nymphaea odorata, American white water lily”. It is a large white flower with many layers of thin white petals that end in a point. The center is gold frills. Below this in the opposite corner of the image is a yellow flower with a few rows of soft yellow petals that are wide and round. The center has gold frills below a large, yellow, upright structure with holes in it like a shower head, that will become the seed pod. This is labeled “Nelumbo lutea, American Lotus”.]
So the one I have seeds for is the American Lotus, not the American white water lily.
Which means I still have to find seeds for the American white water lily.
I’m trying to grow a bunch of native water plants to put in the local lakes while removing the invasive water hyacinth from them.
especially now that I know this one used to have water lilies of some sort before the water hyacinth moved in.
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WASSERPFLANZEN WOLFF - Nymphaea 'Colonel A. J. Welch' - fertig im PFLANZKORB - Seerose, gelb - winterhart
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Teichpflanzen Seerosen : Nymphaea Seerose " Charles de Meurville " winterhart Pflanztiefe bis 150 cm
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Nymphaea x ‘August Koch’ / 'August Koch’ Hybrid Water Lily at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC
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Nymphaea x ‘August Koch’ / 'August Koch’ Hybrid Water Lily at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC
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My water lily (Nymphaea stellata) is doing great. Today I removed the top leaves so that the new ones grow better and so that it doesn’t go into an above-water form.
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Nymphaea x ‘August Koch’ / 'August Koch’ Hybrid Water Lily at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC
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Nymphaea ‘Denver’ blooms in my container pond. I love when the blooms are held high above the water. The bees love them and they really glow in the sunlight!