`Nigel` is a hybrid by Kirk Strawn from 1993. In two respects it is one of his most important creations. First of all this is the plant he used to create many of his later hybrids, secondly it is simply one of the best pink waterlilies that is: perfectly shaped, fully double flowers, strong ...

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A 1993 creation by Perry D. Slocum. It is a variety in unusualy dark red and slightly crinkled petals that let think of silk flowers.

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A creation by Perry D. Slocum from 1993. It is named after Mount Shasta, a vulcano in the north of California. It rises like a snow covered white cone from a surrounding that is dry and warm. The contrast is striking. Slocum probably thought of the vulcano when he realized the waterlily bears its ...

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There is little information available on this waterlily. If you enter its name into a search machine, you will be led to a site that offers a `legal` (it isn`t) drug by the same name. What ever that drug may be, it is for sure no waterlily. The hybridizer of the waterlily is Garet Uemura, who introduced ...

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Several waterlilies are sold by this name and they have quite different characteristics. We are pretty sure to have the true `Atropurpurea` in our collection. It was created by Latour-Marliac in 1901, and it remained always rare in cultivation. The reason is probably that in the past most ...

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This one was created by Kirk Strawn in 1997. It was always a rare variety and it becomes now really hard to find nurseries that still grow it. Propably is appears as `just another pink waterlily´ to the first glimpse. That who takes time to observe it for longer will soon find out that it is an...

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This new waterlily was created by Chansilpa in 2007. When presented to the public in 2010 it caused a furore. It was awarded `Best new waterlily of 2010` and everybody wanted to have one - quite impossible, there was just a handfull plants at that time. There is no similar variety. The colour of the flower is a mx of magenta, red and orange, the petals are heavily marked with white streak ...

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A creation by Perry D. Slocum from 1989. The flowers are held somewhat above the water surface. It is one of the best red varieties for large ponds.

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Sometimes plants don`t become popular despite having the best characteristics one could ask for. Such a plant is `Martha`. This variety by Kirk Strawn was created back in 1993. To the day it remained extremly rare, there is even danger that it will be lost to cultivation if not soon some nurseries start to propagate it. By not stretch of the...

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