There could be a number of reasons why your lilies flowers don't look like others pictures. They could simply not be that particular named lily. Depending on where you purchased them or how you obtained them they could have been mislabeled. Environmental conditions in your pond can affect flower color sometimes. As for the lilies you are thinking about getting....I have not had good luck with Arc-en-ciel. I've acquired it 3 times and every time it has died. I think it prefers consistently warmer water temps then I have in my area. I have Almost Black. For me its a stubborn bloomer but it is certainly a pretty lily. Smells really nice too. Mangkala Ubol is one of my absolute favorites and it is a good bloomer.

My friend just decided to get rid of her pond, since she is no longer able to take care of it. She gave me 6 five gallon buckets full of water lilies. I am in the process of dividing these.They are all different colors. She is just not sure of the names. I have seen two of them in bloom already and one is dark pink and the other a baby pink. They were beautiful. Since I won't be needing all of these lilies, I am going to trade some of them. I am looking for miniature papyrus, floating hearts, or any large leaf tropical. I send all my plants priority mail, and since the temps are going to be in the triple digits for the next several days, I prefer to wait until the middle of next week to ship. Please make an offer. Thanks

Do you have any anacharis? I am getting desperate! Have lots of beautiful daylilies-large flowers, many colors, also waterlilies, all hardy,3 medium sized: red Attraction, yellow Sulphurea (looks like a tropical, held above the water, really pretty) and white Albida and 1 minature (Perry's Baby Red)-maybe some you don't have? LMK. Thanks.

I have lots of purple pickerel, native yellow waterlilly (it has a hard, bulb-like flower with a white pestal in the middle), also green and white hosta, with straight or twisted leaves, siberian iris, chocolate mint, spearmint, lilly of the valley, mini iris, creeping seedum flowering yellow(now), pink hardy geranium...I'll try to get a picture album back up on the net of my gardens soon. I would love the hardy waterlillies, dark pink with white edges if you could figure out which one it is...stems should be a bit darker, redder than on the other 2 kinds.