Night Flowering Waterlilies

Night flowering waterlilies are essentially a type or group of tropical waterlilies with a number of distinct and attractive features.

They are named for their trait of opening their flowers during the night rather than opening them in the day like regular waterlilies.

However despite this behavior the flowers are often open during daylight hours as they tend to remain open well into the morning, and even longer on overcast days.

The plants flowers and leaves match tropical traits in a number of ways, having the less round leaf form and flowers that are held up above the surface of the water. However they have their own unique form to their flowers and tend to have interesting spiky looks to the fringes of their leaves.

Night flowering waterlilies include not only the darkest pinks and reds of the tropical waterlilies they also include varieties with the darkest redish coloured leaves.

Night flowering waterlilies prefer conditions at least as warm, if not warmer than normal tropical waterlillies so they start a little later than hardy lilies. It is best to order them from late November to February.

NOTICE

Tropical lilies and many miniatures are currently dormant they will be available again in late spring or early summer.