Author: Perry D. Slocum
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: new, hybrids, cultivars, species, lotuses, waterlilies
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0881926841
ISBN-13: 9780881926842

In this fully updated work, Perry Slocum describes nearly 500 species and cultivars of the crowning jewels of water gardens, the waterlilies and lotuses. Among them are more than 130 of the best new hybrids introduced since publication of the landmark Water Gardening, Water Lilies and Lotuses by Perry Slocum and Peter Robinson. All species and the major cultivars, including day- and night-blooming tropical and hardy waterlilies and lotuses, are described, with the author’s and hybridizers’ comments on the best landscape uses for each plant. Although Nymphaea and Nelumbo receive special emp