A plant with a lot of possibilities. You can plant it in the vegie-patch and enjoy the delicious small strawberries from early summer till autumn. Or you can plant it in front of the border, where it will work as a modest groundcover and close bald spots between the plant. Or you can plant it in a pot ...
Spatterdocks produce typically floating leaves when growing in deeper water (and they can go down to 5 m depth!), but in shallow water the foliage changes its shape and they step out of the water. The flower is yellow, pear-shaped and emits a fragrance of alcohol.
This is the most floriferous of all Spatterdocks. It adapts well to different water levels and can cope even with regularity change of them. In very shallow water it behaves more of less like a bog plant, in water deeper than 2 meters it changes into a submerged form. Its flowers are pure yellow.
This is the smaller one ot the two spatterdocks native to Europe. It looks like a dwarf edition of the larger Nuphar lutea. It grows best 40 - 80 cm deep.
This variety of the Lesser Spatterdock bears variegated foliage. The variagation depends much on age and situation of the plant. Young plants often show no variegation at all. The best variegated foliage can be found on older plants that grow in full sun.
This Spatterdock grows only on Cape Fear in the USA. Its foliage is somewhat arrow-shaped, the flowers are yellow. The plant can grow large and needs deeper water, 1.5 - 3 m deep.
This Spatterdock used to be called Nuphar intermedia. It is a natural cross of the two European species Nuphar lutea and Nuphar pumila. In size and appearance it is really right in the middle of the two species.
(Latour-Marliac 1921) The flowers of this variety are medium pink, the tips of the petals are lighter coloured than their bases. The flower is star-shaped with yellow centre. It is suitable for medium sized to large ponds.
(Perry D. Slocum 1985) The flowers of this waterlily are extremly star-shaped. It appeared as a chance-seedling in the nursery of Perry D. Slocum and was spotted by another visiting watergardener. The colour of the flowers is delicate pink. The flowers are held high above the water and they smell delightful. ...
(Duff 1998) This waterlily is usual listed as `orange`. It is a beauty, without question, but orange? Probably it needs the eye of the hybridizer to spot this colour. Perhaps it is a question of the European clima for this variety originated in the USA (hybridized in 1998 by Duff - no, not Duff ...
(Epple 1970) A variety from Baden-Württemberg. The flower is cup-shaped and slightly double, the colour is a delicate pink. Floriferous and suitable for medium and large ponds.
(Perry Slocum 1988) A waterlily with very large, very double flowers in shell-pink. The flowers are very fragrant. It is suitable for medium and large ponds. Since it is a odorata-hybrid it needs space to form a colony before it starts to perform best.
(J.B. Marliac 1901) This old variety by Marliac is more popular in the US than it is in Europe. Its name translates `Rainbow` since its leaves are multicoloured, while the flower is simply white. Exactly this might be the problem: in Europe the flower is all the world and nobody cares for the leaves. ...
(Marliac 1910) Red flowers with lighter tips and a crown of orange anthers in the centre, that`s how this variety looks like. The flower is cup-shaped in the beginning and opens star-shaped later. Leaves are on both sides green. It is a very floriferous variety that can be used as cut flower.
(J.B. Latour-Marliac 1895) Although it is one of the oldest waterlily varieties it is still one of the best. There is no other waterlily with such a deep change in colour than this one. The flower is on its first day yellowish-apricot with a dark centre, on its second day it turns to orange-red, ...
(Strawn 1996) A hybrid by Kirk Strawn. Its colour is sort of a very pale yellow with a mix of pink and apricot towards the centre of the flower. The flower appears almost double and is ball-shaped like a peonly. It is a very floriferous variety that prefers warmer water. Suitable for medium to large ...
(Strawn 1993) A deep red waterlily from the USA. From the outside to the centre the colour of the flower increases and gets darker. The flowers are cup-shaped, it is very florferous and suitable for ponds of all sizes. I regard it to be the one with best effect on far view among the deep red varieties.
(Sturtevant 1892) The origin of this hybrid is unknown. It might be a cross of the two native waterlilies Nymphaea alba and Nymphaea candida, in this case its correct name was Nymphaea x borealis. Also the hybridizer is unknow. So far we thought it was offered around 1900 for the first time in ...
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