Water Lily

Purple Water Lily

The dream of creating a blue or purple hardy waterlily was just that for many, many years.  All of the legendary waterlily hybridizers like Kirk Strawn and Perry Slocum, not to mention my father Brad McLane and uncle Bruce McLane, had all found it impossible.  It took the creation of Nymphaea 'Siam Blue Hardy' by Pairat Songpanich to turn the dream into a reality.  The path he used to create a purple waterlily was one thought impossible by almost all but himself, crossing a blue or purple tropical waterlily with a hardy waterlily. 

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White Water Lily

 Water lilies are one of the oldest aquatic plants on this earth. Early lilies were huge in size with fossils showing lily pads up to four feet wide. As these plants evolved over several thousands of years they morphed to the size we see today. Evidence of water lilies have been found in european pre-ice age cave drawings and these drawings show the early types to have been of the same basic form that exists among hardy species today.  

Over the last hundred years, water lily history has become clearer. It began early in the last century with a white man's discovery of a large & fragrant flower in the fresh water lagoons of the South American jungles. The natives gave the water lily the name Yrupe meaning water platter.The large purplish-green leaves, floated on the surface of the water providing resting spots for the local frog population.

Purple water Lily

Rose

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