This spring, hubby and I just had to buy
a few waterlilies from a certain box store which shall
remain nameless for this thread. ;-)
Today we were greeted with a beautiful tub of blooms,
but are not sure what we are growing.
Could anyone assist?
We purchased the following:
Colorado (label shows white with pink bottoms)
Sulphurea (can't be this one, it is yellow)
Fabiola (can't be this one, it is baby pink)
Attraction (this one is a dark red according to the label)
James Brydon (label shows a darkish pink)
Sioux (label shows red, yellows and oranges)
Shall I just chalk the unknowns up to typical box store nonsense?
I would hate to call something by a name it is not.
Sigh. I realize we should have tagged them, but those little
strings with the faux waterlilies for identification became a
tangled mess. I ended up pulling all the mess off and just let
'em bloom.
Another i.d. to follow this post. I appreciate any input.
Karen Marie
Box store again. Help me identify if you can?
Hi
My daughter bought me a water lily for Mother's Day from a well known nursrey and the picture on the tag showed a deep pink colour . I couldn't wait for it to bloom and when it did it was white. :- (
Sandi
Go look at the waterlily pictures in plant files.
Uh, yeah, thanks.
I'm not too lazy to look in the files, I did look.
However, mine do not look similiar to those in the files.
I posted because I thought maybe someone might
mention theirs, too had a similar look or the color may fluctuate.
Wuvie...
I know how hard those box store lilies are to pass up.
My thoughts are the white one is probably Marliac alibida or a hybrid thereof
the pink one could be attraction or a hyrbid of it as it can be different shades of pink/red
Ah, now that is what I was after, thank you so much!
I should have known not to buy box store, after a long ago learned
lesson in daylilies. The feeling I get is that many of the companies
simply purchase and resell. I guess they assume that as long as a
plant is close enough, call it what it looks like, LOL.
My husband used to work for a place that did that. If it looks like
an Ed Brown, call it an Ed Brown. Ugh!
Many thanks, Charlotte! :-)
KM
