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Learn about over 200 species of water lilies and 100 more species of pond plants. Tips and techniques from the Water Lily experts. New water lily species and water garden information and news.
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Another Lilyfest Success
The 2009 Lilyfest at Ken Landons International Water Lily collection brought many people to the park in San Angelo. One of the few rain storms of the 2009 year visited as well but that could not keep the flowers from blooming or the visitors from che...
Water Lily vs Lotus … please read the guide
Lilies and Lotus are different. Beginning water garders may not know this. To those of us who grow its simple. The roots are different, the leaves, the planting, the tubers, the flowers. For beginners remember lotus stand high out of the water, the l...
Ken Landon and The International Water Lily Collection.
I promised my new dear friend Cynthia the other night I would visit Southern Texas next year for Lily Fest 2010. Cynthia and her husband are just two of the dozens of great water garden enthusiasts I have met through the IWGS organization. C...
2009 IWGS Water Lily Awards
And the winners are…. Tim Davis has just uploaded the results on IWGS. Congratulations to Florida Aquatics, Fourth Generation Nursery, Andreas Protopapas, and all the entrants in the 2009 competition. The names have also been released by Florid...
So you might not ever see the “first” Blue Hardy Lily…
Unfortunately I did not stay until the end of St. Charles IL symposium. Over the weekend Pairat Songpanich, creator of “Nymphaea ‘Siam Blue Hardy’, spoke about the creation of the worlds first Blue hardy Water Lily. From ...
NEW 2010 Water Lily Preview, after so many new water lilies in 2009
This post is more of a twitter announcement than an actual blog post but, get ready for some facinating new species for 2010. As I update this blog with photos of the 2009 new species growing this summer consider some great new color...
IWGS Symposium 7-16-09 Journal
Today was a fantasmic beginning to this weeks events. Highlights included much of the day at Chicago Botanical Gardens. A wonderful tour of much of the 6 miles of shoreline were visited. Hardy water lilies, bog plants, lotus and more including Japane...
Paula Biles Interview (Part 2)
PART 2 (To Learn more about Paula see the introduction in Part 1) Q You note some interesting research by scientists in the book. It has been a couple of years since the book was first released as a booklet. Are there any new tech...
Meet me in St. Charles…
In a few days we will be heading west to St. Charles for the annual symposium. This years 5 day tour will feature Mr. Pairat Songpanich from Thailand. A special auction, local garden tours, a tour of the aquascapes building and facility, a...
2 Important Resources a water gardener should have. . .
There are several excellent books we use for resource information, two of the books we highly recommend are Encyclopedia of Water Gardensby Greg Speichert and Sue Speichert and the other book is Waterlilies and Lotuses by Perry D. Slocum...
What’s in a name?
How are the water garden plants you get in the mail or FedEx to your home grown? Where are they grown? Well it depends on where you purchase them. There are many growers in the United States. The safest place to look for water plants would be anyone ...
