Everyone is familiar with water lilies; they have round, floating leaves (lily pads) and elegant flowers. They are admired by most people and appreciated by small creatures such as damselflies and ...

I have spent the last 40 years growing water lilies. They are beautiful, easy to grow and tend, and give great pleasure to my pond, as well as my troughs. You see, I love water features, koi and ...

Adding water lilies to your garden or landscape can provide round-the-clock flowering performance all summer long. The plants come in two varieties: hardy water lilies are perennial and produce red, ...

Summer flowers fade and the pace of life in Westborough picks up in September, but a vision of summertime lingers on shallow ponds where native white water-lilies bloom. Known as fragrant water-lily ...

"It took me some time to understand my water lilies…," wrote Claude Monet. "I cultivated them with no thought of painting them… One does not fully appreciate a landscape in one day… And then, suddenly ...

Once Clair Russell Ossian becomes interested in a subject, he is compelled by some inner drive to become an expert. A geologist often invited on archaeology digs in Egypt, Ossian noticed repeated ...

ALTHOUGH BASHO wrote this poem in 17th-century Japan, it vividly describes the tranquility and activity of the Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Northeast Washington. During a recent visit, I ...

Costa is at a magical water garden that he has wanted to visit for years. Austral Watergardens in Cowan, NSW, sits on 7 acres with views of the Muogamarra nature reserve. Kevin and Lisa Metelik have ...