more waterlily photos to share

Here in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia sum­mer slips into the dol­drums as the weather heats up and the land dries out. If only we had shal­low lakes every­where we might have acres of waterlilies bloom­ing their heads off. Things might look a lit­tle bit like this…


Jenny was at Long­wood Gar­dens in Penn­syl­va­nia recently and sent me these pho­tos of their water gar­dens. (Thanks, Jenny!) She was struck by their flow­ers, but was really drawn to the foliage. It’s easy to love the var­ie­gated ones, but the crin­kled edges on the other vari­eties are awfully cool too. These are all waterlilies but for one, the plant with­out blooms. I’ll try to get the name of the from her, but if any of the rest of you know what it is, just drop a note.

Of course, hav­ing a body of water in a warm cli­mate is no guar­an­tee that water plants will thrive. Last year, up in Los Ange­les, the Echo Park Lotus Fes­ti­val took place. But after cel­e­brat­ing the bloom­ing of the water lotuses every year since 1972, there were no lotus blooms to show. Ear­lier this month they went ahead and held the annual cel­e­bra­tion, but this time it was re-branded the Echo Park Com­mu­nity Fes­ti­val. No lotuses. Sad.

July 24 2009 05:58 am | Categories: gardening • places | Tags: • • • •

One Response to “more waterlily photos to share”

  1. Jenny on 24 Jul 2009 at 9:05 am #

    Oops. It’s Lud­wigia sediodes. It’s in the evening prim­rose fam­ily and native to Cen­tral and South Amer­ica. I loved the geom­e­try of the plant. It’s also known as mosaic plant.

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