Video of Nymphaea

'Pink Tulip' by Mike Giles

Video of Purple Satin

Mike Giles Narrating

New Purple's 1st Bloom

Brand New First Shots of a new stunning dark purple tropical x hardy ISG by Mike on 6-20-2011

All images copyrighted by the IWC and Mike Giles. No reproduction in print or on other websites is authorized or allowed.

The flower on the right is Nymphaea 'Tanzanite' for a comparison...WOW.

A look behind the scenes at

Mike Giles seed production in 2011

Nymphaea 'Tanzanite'

Texas Legislature
Bills By Committee Culture, Recreation & Tourism
82nd Legislature Regular Session Report Date: 4/6/2011
HCR 24 Author: Darby
Last Action: 04/06/2011 H Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Caption: Designating Nymphaea Texas Dawn as the official State Waterlily of Texas.
Subjects: Resolutions--Official Designations--State Symbols (I0718)
NYMPHAEA 'TEXAS DAWN' (N1757)
STATE WATERLILY (N1756)

Click on the picture below to read some history and information on this award-winning waterlily.

Video of Drew Darby

Texas State Representative Drew Darby giving a speech on the Texas White List and reading the official proclamation of Nymphaea 'Texas Dawn' as the Texas State Waterlily on September 17, 2010 at the IWGS Symposium held in San Angelo.

IWC Update

Wednesday April 6, 2011

The International Waterlily Collection is proud to announce the following breaking news. We have been granted permission to show some really rare material that is only in select venues around the world. We will also have access to new species material that no one else will be able to show.

Award winning hybridist, Pairat Songpanich

is allowing us to showcase some of his fantastic hybrids in the collection this year. There are several great hybrid hardy waterlilies and his 2010 award-winning intersugeneric waterlily Nymphaea 'Siam Pink' will also be on display later this season.

Update...We have many of his fantastic plants on display in the collection now that are only in one or two other collections in the world. We have the following on display right now...

Nymphaea 'Siam Pink', Nymphaea 'Tanpong', Nymphaea 'Tan-khwan', Nymphaea 'Miss Siam', Nymphaea 'Rattana Ubol'

photo and hybrid Nymphaea 'Siam Pink' by Mr. Pairat Songpanich.

Dr. C. Barre Hellquist, Ph.D. Biology Professor, Emeritus is on a trip to Australia as we print this. As a memorium to the his great friend and fellow researcher the late Dr. Surrey W. L. Jacobs, we will be showing the largest collection of Australian species material anywhere in the United States.

Dr. Surrey W. L. Jacobs

We hope to receive the following plants in seed or tuber form...
Nymphaea alexii, Nymphaea carpentariae, Nymphaea georginae, Nymphaea hastifolia, Nymphaea immutabilis, Nymphaea jacobsii, Nymphaea macrosperma, Nymphaea vaporalis and Nymphaea violacea.

Dr. C. Barre Hellquist photo

Update... we did get some seed from Barre and are starting to grow it. We will be showing much of this material in the 2012 season as a tribute to Dr. Surrey W.L. Jacobs

Article Nymphaea ‘Wanvisa’ Is Like a Box of Cracker Jacks
by Tim Davis

photo by Debbie Davis

Ken Landon

Method of Tuber Storage

Learn the secret to successfully storing tubers for years, not just months.Video to show you all you need to know. Broadband internet really needed to see this.

The IWC in it's Glory

It is with pleasure and great thanks that we post these incredible shots by our esteemed friend, Noriyuki Kato. He was present for the IWGS Symposium and captured these shots during the fireworks show that Ken presented the night before Lily Fest 2010. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity at the IWC and Noriyuki captured it in it's glory.

These firework photos are copyrighted by the IWC and Noriyuki Kato.
They are not to be taken or used without his permission.

Thank You Noriyuki.

Don Bryne

Passing of an Icon

The White List is Dead

World Wide Exclusive

World's First Dark Purple Hardy

Nymphaea 'Purple Satin' is not a one of a kind.

All data, text and photos copyrighted. No unauthorized links.
Do not link to pictures without permission.You may link to this page but not the Mike Giles page.
Photographer - © Mike Giles © International Waterlily Collection

Video hits the IWC site.

Thanks to a collaberation with Zac DeGarmeaux of Pond Megastore we are presenting high definition videos here on the site. After a certain time period, we will move the videos of individual plants to their own page and make more room here on the front page for other content.
At this time there are the videos below and on their own pages of many waterlilies. As we move them to their individual pages from here on the front page you will be able to see what plants have a posted video by looking at the plant index page and looking for this animated image...

Pond Megastore is a trusted source for water garden items and plants. We are also working towards a deal that would allow them to sell Ken Landon's 7803 fertilizer sometime in the near future. At this time there are very few outlets to get the "best" waterlily fertilizer on the market and we hope to help rectify that by spring of 2011.

16 New Videos Below

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Yellow Dazzler' by Randig. This footage was shot at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. The waterlily pools there are run by our good friend Tim Jennings. It is also the home of the creation of the victoria 'Longwood Hybrid' created by long-time curator, Mr. Patrick Nutt. He is a great friend and mentor and a legend in the world of aquatic floraculture.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Mrs. Edwards Whitaker' by the legendary George H. Pring. This footage was shot at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Panama Pacific' by the legendary William Tricker in 1914. This footage was shot at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Pink Pearl' by August Koch. This footage was shot at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.

Here is a video showing the intersubgeneric Nymphaea 'Siam Pink'. This is for informational purposes at this time as it is not yet in the IWC collection. It is a great hybrid by Pairat Songpanich of Thailand. It won in the 2010 IWGS New Waterlily Competition in the intersubgeneric category.

Thanks also go to Tamara Kilbane of Duke University who allowed us to get close enough to get this footage last summer.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Stanley Angus Skinger'. This is for informational purposes at this time as it is not yet in the IWC collection.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Pink Dawn'. This is for informational purposes at this time as it is not yet in the IWC collection.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Jennifer Rebecca'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Rhapsody in White'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Foxfire'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Dr Ralph Rafael Chase'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Larissa Racine'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Castaliflora'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea calliantha

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Bob Trickett'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea capensis var. zanzibariensis

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Blue Aster'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Peach Blow'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Bull's Eye'.

Ken discusses his very own Nymphaea 'Blue Cloud'.

Here is a video shot that discusses Nymphaea 'Wanvisa' and its incredible win over tropicals in the 2010 IWGS New Waterlily Competition.

Here is a video of Nymphaea 'Antares' by Patrick Nutt formerly and famously of Longwood Gardens.

This is a video showing a not too often seen pink form of Nymphaea carpentariae.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Helvola'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Gloriosa'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Andreana'.

Here is a video showing Nymphaea 'Hollandia'.

Here is a video showing Florida Aquatic Nurseries' new Nymphaea 'Tropic Sunset'. It is a great new autumn colored flower reminiscent of N. 'Albert Greenberg'. It is, however a darker version that also has the distiction of being the only viviparous autumn colored waterlily in existence. Thanks go out to the McLane family for allowing us to showcase one of their new jewels.

This is video of a waterlily in the 2010 IWGS New Waterlily Competition. It is a great blooming new hardy by George Moore that is named Nymphaea 'Ruby Star'. We hope to get this one in the collection in the near future.

LilyFest 2010

and IWGS Waterlily Festival

Here is a short video showing Tim, Zac and Ken talking about aussies. Turn up the volume to hear the conversation. Remember we are supposed to be crazy, it's okay. We still have to work on Ken's on camera persona.

How to videos

Videos showing how to plant a hardy and a tropical waterlily have been linked to on the Water Gardening Info & Tips Page.

THE ELUSIVE

STAR OF MEXICO

Have you ever wondered how Ken came to be known as the "Indiana Jones" of the aquatic world? Did you know he was personally responsible for researching and re-discovering a species declared extinct by all of the other experts? Perhaps this article should be renamed "Rediscovery of an extict species". This is a reprint from a 1985 article that Ken wrote for the IWGS at that time the IWLS. Go read it for an in depth view of a passionate explorer doing a job that no one else could.